Early CGI is Awesome

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Dr. Cuddlebug said:
Marvin said:
I watched a little bit of ReBoot at some point.
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I'm surprised how popular ReBoot became after the fact. I remember watching it as a kid and really liking it but it didn't start to grow popular until the last 10 years or so.

I remember I went to buy something off somebody on Craigslist and they were wearing a Reboot button on their shirt.
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ReBoot was great but Beast Wars was the shit! Heh, wanna know something funny?
Here in Canada, it was renamed Beasties because some ratings guys though Beast Wars was too violent a title. The real kicker is we got the uncut episodes, with the stuff too violent for American censors on full display.
Beast Wars Megatron is the BEST Megatron.

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Kamen Rider Black said:
ReBoot was great but Beast Wars was the shit! Heh, wanna know something funny?
Here in Canada, it was renamed Beasties because some ratings guys though Beast Wars was too violent a title. The real kicker is we got the uncut episodes, with the stuff too violent for American censors on full display.
Beast Wars Megatron is the BEST Megatron.

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You're quite right, sir! Other good ones were Inferno and Tarantulas. Kind of a shame that Tarantulas vanished a bit in Series 3 until the end, but it was worth it when Tigerhawk called him insane and he responded with a "So they say! Blblblblblbl!"
 
hm yeah said:
^ I used to be EXTREMELY bitter (when I was a really anal 12 year old to 15 year old) because CGI booted out traditional animation, which I had a special interest in and aspired to do as my career.

I'm still a bit bitter, but I've also let go of that ridiculous pipe dream, and now I'm just bitter about CGI being all about rendering the best water and fabric and shit like that.
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I'm bitter about it because it somehow rendered something as timeless as an art form obsolete. But, I don't control the industry so there's no point in getting worked up over it, I guess. *SIGH*
 
Don't let the cgi helicopter fool you though, this movie is beautifully animated, the Cgi helicopter literally comes out of nowhere. (the fact that its Cgi comes out of nowhere, I'm pretty sure it was the only cgi scene in the whole movie.) Keep in mind though, this is early 80s cgi.

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Picklepower said:
Don't let the cgi helicopter fool you though, this movie is beautifully animated, the Cgi helicopter literally comes out of nowhere. (the fact that its Cgi comes out of nowhere, I'm pretty sure it was the only cgi scene in the whole movie.) Keep in mind though, this is early 80s cgi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJxPjUo5-cI
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Yeah, the only one in the movie proper. CGI was also used in the title sequence with the Skeletons. I also heard that the CGI was used because director Osamu Dezaki had a fascination with it.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of 1980s CGI:
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Here's this gem that I found on YouTube. Over 40 years old, and made by Ed Catmull at the University of Utah.
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fuzzypickles said:
Here's this gem that I found on YouTube. Over 40 years old, and made by Ed Catmull at the University of Utah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5seU-5U0ms
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I knew him as "Dr. Catmull."
 
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