Hollywood And Computer Animation

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Hollywood and Computer Animation

Hollywood and Computer Animation

IS 490
SPECIAL TOPICS
Computer Graphics
Lance Allen
May 6, 1996

Table of Contents Introduction 3 How It
Was                                 3 How It All
Began                             4 Times Were Changing
6 Industry's First Attempts 7
The Second Wave                             10
How the Magic is Made                         11 Modeling
                                12 Animation
                                13 Rendering
                                13 Conclusion
15 Bibliography
16

Introduction

Hollywood has gone digital, and the old ways of doing things are dying.
Animation and special effects created with computers have been embraced by
television networks, advertisers, and movie studios alike. Film editors, who
for decades worked by painstakingly cutting and gluing film segments together,
are now sitting in front of computer screens. There, they edit entire features
while adding sound that is not only stored digitally, but also has been created
and manipulated with computers. Viewers are witnessing the results of all this
in the form of stories and experiences that they never dreamed of before.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of all this, however, is that the entire
digital effects and animation industry is still in its infancy. The future
looks bright. How It Was

In the beginning, computer graphics were as cumbersome and as hard to control as
dinosaurs must have been in their own time. Like dinosaurs, the hardware
systems, or muscles, of early computer graphics were huge and ungainly. The
machines often filled entire buildings.
Also like dinosaurs, the software programs or brains of computer graphics were
hopelessly underdeveloped. Fortunately for the visual arts, the evolution of
both brains and brawn of computer graphics did not take eons to develop. It has,
instead, taken only three decades to move from science fiction to current
technological trends. With computers out of the stone age, we have moved into
the leading edge of the silicon era. Imagine sitting at a computer without any
visual feedback on a monitor. There would be no spreadsheets, no word
processors, not even simple games like solitaire. This is what it was like in
the early days of computers. The only way to interact with a computer at that
time was through toggle switches, flashing lights, punchcards, and Teletype
printouts. How It All Began

In 1962, all this began to change. In that year,

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