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Early CGI Was Horrifying
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DeepEnigma
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Bojji
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feynoob
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That what space does to you.For 1974 this shit is impressive.
Looks better than Starfield NPCs faces.
DeepEnigma
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She seen't some shit.For 1974 this shit is impressive.
Looks better than Starfield NPCs faces.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Yeah mainly the players.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
What made Lawnmower Man so scary was that it was early CGI. Really horrific stuff. It was one of those few movies that traumatized me slightly as a kid.
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Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
That looks like the.... uh.... girl(?) from the new Fable game.For 1974 this shit is impressive.
Looks better than Starfield NPCs faces.
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
Loved the show but the cgi was so creepy back then, like holy fuck it freaked me out as a kid. Awesome intro tho
DeepEnigma
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Dirk Benedict
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That bitch survived Mars as Quaid hit that 3 fingered Mars O2 Switch!
Kilau
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One day, video games will look this good. Believe.
Pegasus Actual
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I was very unimpressed with B5 CGI back in the day, to the point where it put me off watching the show for like 8 years. But render it at a higher resolution and I almost kinda like it. Still not the glory that is the model of the Enterprise D or something like that... But I'd take it over modern day too-real-looking CGI. There's no charm to it.
midnightAI
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I had all of the Minds Eye series back in the day, all pretty good (first one had many clips from the op's vid)
My favourite was Gate to the Minds Eye...
My favourite was Gate to the Minds Eye...
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Still is
Dr.Morris79
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I never really liked any of it back then when it was introduced into films, it always looked fake and takes you out of the moment as you can see it has no depth. Coming from most of my favourite 80's films I always preffered animatronic stuff, okay you can say most of that looked fake and cheesy but still, in your mind you know it's a real entity, it's there in the world and someone put time and effort in..
Take, The Thing ~
Now take The Lawnmower man as
Darkmakaimura
posted (I'm not putting you down Darkakaimura, just using the CGI in this films instance as it was the start for me)
It always made us laugh as it was such a seperation between whats real and looked so goofy, but.. it did work in a way for the premise of that film, it was meant to be a VR world
I mean look at this now, after watching The Things brutal animatronics, from 1982! ~
Awful
But going from there it started to be used so much in films that it got ridiculous. Never was a fan.
So yeah, early CGI. Ruined cinema to this day for me.
Take, The Thing ~
Now take The Lawnmower man as
Darkmakaimura
posted (I'm not putting you down Darkakaimura, just using the CGI in this films instance as it was the start for me)It always made us laugh as it was such a seperation between whats real and looked so goofy, but.. it did work in a way for the premise of that film, it was meant to be a VR world
I mean look at this now, after watching The Things brutal animatronics, from 1982! ~
Awful
But going from there it started to be used so much in films that it got ridiculous. Never was a fan.
So yeah, early CGI. Ruined cinema to this day for me.
Insane Metal
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Amazing stuff! Thanks for posting these. Just imagine how incredibly hard it must've been for those creating these without the tools we have today. They literally had to do it from the ground up. Writing thousands of lines of codes for such simplistic stuff.
That sketchpad from 63 is running at like 10 fps. Think of that.
That sketchpad from 63 is running at like 10 fps. Think of that.
Hudo
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My father once told me that there was apparently quite the hubbub with the first Tron movie and its nomination for its special effects. There apparently were special effects people in the community back then who refused to nominate Tron because they said "they aren't real, there's no real work in them!".
And now look at the special effects industry.
And now look at the special effects industry.
NekoFever
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To this day CGI is usually referred to as "visual effects". Special effects are all done in camera (e.g. animatronics, puppets, optical tricks, makeup, pyrotechnics, miniatures, etc).
DoABarrelRoll
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Really tense. But i really like the animatronics for that era.
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Bitmap Frogs
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Fun story, the lawnmower man cgi was made by a media studio that made cgi for the vídeo game industry as well. Some time after the studio hired developers and started making their own games.
That is, until they became Rockstar San Diego.
That’s right fellas this was the beginning of the team behind Red Dead Redemption.
Man, that is a legit historical artifact right there. It's pretty neat that they were doing stuff this sophisticated in the '70s.
Sure it's considerably archaic compared to today, but nevertheless impressive imo.
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Melon Husk
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SirKicksalot
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This looks good with the clothes on. In other scenes it's hard to tell what's real and what's not. They obviously knew how shadows make things look real but there was a creative decision to reveal the full creature in good lighting...
Godzilla 1998 was mastered for a specific Technicolor film but they had production issues and had to switch to another format for the final prints. The new format altered the blacks and contrast so it never looked like the CGI and the real elements shared the same space. The 2013 Blu-ray was the first time the movie had the correct look.
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Nothing fake about Mimi Rogers’ boobies in that space suit though
