The Roots of CGI

Ah CGI...an art form that plagues every movie theater in the country. An art form that can be used correctly or horribly horribly wrong, but rarely in between. And this was the birth of it all. Today we focused on the first computer generated animations. Essentially, just dots and small light shows that were digitally created. To think that this would be the start of half of the films we see released in theaters today. But while it is easy to look back on these simple animations now and blow them off, it really was an incredible feat for the time they were introduced. To be able to create an animation digitally was a very large step forward, and as we can now see, was a step that was led to something huge. It's interesting to look back to see where it all started, and then look at how quickly its progressed. I can only imagine what kind of CGI animations will be created 20 or 30 years from now. Hell, I could hardly keep up with it all from the past 5 years!