I was born at the tale end of 1983.
CGI was born just a few years earlier.
Here, take a look at some of CGI’s “baby pictures” in the form of this clip from the BBC show Tomorrow’s World.
Looking back over thirty years, it’s amazing to think that this was the technological origin of the types of effects we see in movies today. It all started with simplistic effects like this, and it’s gone were very few ever thought it would go.
I remember when The Matrix came out in 1999. The effects in that movie were so ground-breaking, so mind-shattering that it’s hard to communicate now. In fact, the majority of the students I’ve taught over the past nine years have never heard of the movie that gave us “bullet time.” In fact, here’s a nice little clip about that technological wonder.
What’s even harder to think about is that we, in 2015, are nearly as far away from The Matrix as it was from this BBC video clip. Next year, we and the BBC clip will be equidistant with seventeen years on either side.
Eric Dye says
Mind. Blown.
Phil Schneider says
It really is crazy to think about how we’ve come in our own lifetimes.