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First movie shot completely on a green screen using digitally scanned images as backgrounds. Olocoons: First CGI-animated series to use Cel-shaded designs and backgrounds mixed with 2-D elements. Shrek 2: First feature film to use global illumination. [45] Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: First movie with all-CGI backgrounds and live ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Bachelor's Daughters: Andrew L. Stone: Claire Trevor, Gail Russell, Ann Dvorak: Comedy: United Artists: Bad Bascomb: S. Sylvan Simon: Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main
John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights ...
In 1946, the researchers resigned from the University of Pennsylvania and formed the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. ENIAC was a large, modular computer, composed of individual panels to perform different functions. Twenty of these modules were accumulators that could not only add and subtract, but hold a ten-digit decimal number in memory.
Walt Disney's most controversial movie, Song of the South, opened in theaters on this day in 1946.(Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Everett Collection) (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo ...
It's difficult to imagine life today without computers, but the personal computer was barely a reality just 33 years ago. On August 12th, 1981, IBM introduced their first PC model, also known as ...
Able Edwards, the first movie with all-CGI backgrounds and live actors. [ 126 ] The Polar Express by Robert Zemeckis , the first film to entirely use the performance capture technique, whereby the physical movements of the actors are digitally recorded and then translated into a computer animation.
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...