Ultimate history of computer animation. This site about computer animation (CGI) in films and other media. Whole evolution of CGI from 1958 to our days presented chronologically, with video exerpts in highest quality, original posters from these CGI films and other media.
Vertigo (1958) First computer animation ever
Catalog (1961) First computer animated short film
Rendering of a planned highway (1961) First realistic computer animation
Computer Sketchpad (1962) First 3D wireframe animation
Simulation of a Two Gyro-Gravity Gradient Attitude
Control System (1963) First physics calculations by computer animation
Hypercube (1965) First stereoscopic 3D computer animation
Computer Ballet (1965) First human figure computer animation
Carrier Landing (1965) First first-person CGI 3D simulation of aircraft
Hummingbird (1967) First digital morphing
Sine Curve Man (1967) First digital morphing of human face
The Stick Man (1967)
First motion capture
Beautiful Noise/The Dynne (1968)
First face motion
capture
Mr. Computer Image (1968) First talking CGI character
Kitty (1968) First realistic computer animated character
Flexipede (1968) First computer animated short film
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) First digital computer animation in a movie
Turn On! Dancer (1969) First dance motion capture
The Apterix and the Easter Bunny (1970) First color 2D computer animation
Metadata (1971) First computer key frame animation
Computer Animated Hand (1972) First polygonal 3D animation
Flying Cube (1973) First polygonal rotating object computer animation
Westworld (1973) Second movie using digital animation
Hunger (1974) First solid filled raster scanned rendering
Faces and Body Parts (1974) First talking polygonal human
Turning the Sphere Inside Out (1976) First polygonal physical model animation
Futureworld (1976)
First realistic computer model of human face
Anima 2 (1977) First procedural computer animations
Pong Man (1977) First polygonal full body animation
Cornell in Perspective (1977) First CGI architecture animation
DNA with Ethidium (1978) First computer biological model
On and off at the circus (1978) First polygonal short film with a storyline
Procedural City and Terrain models (1978) Advanced architecture computer animation
Voyager 2 Encounters Jupiter (1978) First space computer animation
Black Hole (1979) Longest computer canimation in a movie (at the time)
Blobby Man (1979) Advanced body movement computer animation
Inside a Quark (1979) Advanced physical model animation
Compleat Angler (1979)
First Ray tracing
Triple-1 Demo (1979) Advanced shading and CGI logo animations
Computer Image Demo (1979) First combination of CGI and live action
Cosmos (1980) First particle system computer animation
Vol Libre (1980) First fractal generated computer animation
NYIT demo 1 (1980) First realistic traditional style computer animation
NYIT demo 2 (1980) First primitive photorealistic morphing
MAGI Synthavision Demo (1980) First CGI spaceships
MAGI Synthavision Demo 2 (1980) First perfectly round moving 3D CGI object
Looker (1981) First full human body realistic CGI
Carla's Island (1981) First water (fluids) CGI animation
The Tactical Edge (1981) First realistic polygonal plane flight animation
Adam Powers, The Juggler (1981)
First realistic motion
capture
TRON (1982) First combination of 3D CGI and live action
Body animation (NYIT) (1982) Advanced human body CGI
Images NYIT (1982) First real time 3D painting system
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (1982) First realistic fractal-generated landscape
Nightmares (1983) First combination of CGI and live action background
Will Powers - Adventures in Success (1983) First music video with computer animation
Where The Wild Things Are (1983) First combination of 3D CGI and standart animation
Rock and Rule (1983) First traditional animated feature film to use CGI
Last Starfighter (1984) First integrated CGI backgrounds
Brilliance (1984) Advanced human body CGI
Gardner ellipsoids sumulation (1984) First clouds particle CGI animation
Bio-Sensor (1984)
First CGI mirror animation
Snoot and Muttly (1984) Advanced storytelling in a CGI film
Adventures of Andre and Wally B (1984) Advanced motion blur effect
2010 (1984) Advanced CGI simulation of the planets
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) First realistic CGI character on live background
Cranston/Csuri Clock Demo (1985) First liquid metal computer animation
Interface (1985) First human and CGI character interaction
Tony de Peltrie (1985) Longest CGI animated film with speech (at the time)
Labyrinth (1986) First photorealistic CGI animal
Flight of the Navigator (1986) Advanced reflection mapping
The Great Mouse Detective (1986) First cel shading animation
Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home (1986) First photorealistic face morphing
The Golden Child (1986) First photorealistic CGI body morphing
Beach Chair (1986) First CGI water interaction
Flags and Waves (1986) First cloth simulation
Luxo Jr. (1986) Advanced CGI shading
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (1987) First combination of CGI and live action in TV series
Dynamic simulation of flexible objects (1987) Advanced physics computer simulation
Rendez-vous in Montreal (1987) Advanced CGI facial animation
Stanley and Stella in Breaking the Ice (1987) First CGI generated bird flocks and fish schools behaviors
Willow (1988) Advanced photorealistic CGI morphing
Particle Dreams (1988) Advanced particle animation
Computer Dreams 1 (1988) Advanced human movements computer animation
Computer Dreams 2 (1988) First facial motion capture
Leonardo's Deluge (1988) First choreographed CGI image flow
Pygmalion (1988)
First adult polygonal animation
Tin
Toy (1988)
First CGI animation of a child
The Abyss (1989) First photorealistic fluid morphing
Les fables geometriques (1989) First CGI TV series
Don't Touch Me (1989) Advanced motion capture
Eurythmy (1989) Advanced bird flocks computer animation
Anniversary (1989) Longest CGI film at the time
Locomotion (1989) Advanced squash and stretch CGI animation
Megacycles (1989) First crowd CGI animation
Peedee Meets the Dragon (1989) First realistic fire computer animation
Panspermia (1990) First artificial plants evolution
Stegosaurus: The Roof Lizard (1990) First photorealistic dinosaur CGI animation
Terminator 2 (1991) Advanced photorealistic morphing
Michael Jackson - Black Or White (1991) First full fotorealistic face morphing
Mr. Film (1991) Advanced motion capture
Fire Beast (1991) First computer animation of fur
Virtually Yours (1991) Advanced CGI facial animation
Nano-Space (1991) First virtual studio
Xanadu City (1992) First adult CGI film
Beyond the Mind's Eye (1992) First 3D paintings
Beyond the Mind's Eye - Hummingbirds (1992) Advanced CGI birds animation
Batman Returns (1992) First CGI indistinguishable from reality
Dino Tours (1992) Advanced CGI dinosaurs animation
David Byrne - She's Mad (1992) First performance CGI animation
Theology (1992) First CGI Lens flare
Michael Jackson - Remember the time (1992) Advanced particle animation
Death Becomes Her (1992) First human skin CGI animation
Fascinating world of materials (1993) Advanced realistic CGI animal animation
Still Walking (1993) Advanced realistic CGI human walk
Jurassic Park (1993) First digital face replacement
Data Driven: The Story of Franz K (1993) Advanced CGI facial animation
Flintstones (1994) First photorealistic fur CGI animation
Forrest Gump (1994) First digital erasing
The Crow (1994) First dead actor recreated with CGI
Babylon 5 (1994) First virtual set in a movie
Immersion (1994) First image-based modeling
Gribouille - Softimage Demo (1994) Advanced human body CGI animation
Big Bang (1994) Advanced action CGI animation
Alias Siggraph Stagereel (1994) First CGI smoke animation, advanced hand animation
Evolved virtual creatures (1994) First virtual evolution
ReBoot (1994) Longest CGI animated film at the time
The End (1995) Advanced CGI hair and facial animation
Tales from the Crypt - You, Murderer (1995) First actor inserted from old footage to new film
Mortal kombat - The Journey Begins (1995) First realistic CGI fight scene
Mortal Kombat (1995) First CGI stunt double fighting scene
Toy Story (1995) First CGI full length feature film
Jumanji (1995) First photorealisic CGI animals
Batman Forever (1995) First photorealistic CGI stunt double
DragonHeart (1996) Advanced combination of CGI and live action
Theater of Time (1996) Advanced CGI city animation
Smirnoff commercial (1996) First 3d bullet time
Virtual Assistant Potential (1996) First real time advanced motion capture
Marvin The Martian In The Third
Dimension (1996) First stereoscopic 3D polygonal short film
Spawn (1997) First photorealistic CGI fire
The Campanile (1997) First photogrammetry models
Geri's Game (1997) Advanced CGI clothing
Titanic (1997) First photorealistic CGI water
Batman and Robin (1997) Advanced photorealistic CGI stunt doubles
Contact (1997) First CGI blue screen image warp
Video Rewrite (1997) First Deepfake
Godzilla (1998) First use of photogrammetry in movie
Final Fantasy - Gray Project (1998) Advanced CGI facial animation
expressions from photographs (1998) Advanced CGI facial animation
Antz (1998) First crowd AI
Fight Club (1999) First realistic CGI face close-up
The Matrix (1999) First live action Bullet time
Final Fantasy 8 Tech demo (1999) Advanced CGI dancing scene animation
Mental Wealth - PlayStation (1999) First stable CGI face deformation
for the Synthesis of 3D Faces (1999) First CGI face animation from single photo
Fiat Lux (1999)
First image-based lighting
Hollow Man (2000) First anatomically correct CGI human body model
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) First full length photorealistic CGI film
Сreating realistic 3d surrondings
from video (2001) First realistic 3D surrondings from video file
Allan Lundell Motion Captured Avatar (2001) First real time
full body motion capture
Rendering Translucent Materials (2001) First Subsurface scattering
Silent Hill 2 cinematic trailer (2001) Advanced CGI facial animation
Synthesizing Sounds from Physically
Based Motion (2001) First synthesized sounds from computer animation
Monsters, Inc. (2001) Advanced photorealistic fur CGI
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) First CGI forced perspective
Final Fantasy 11 Online intro (2002) Advanced computer animation of a child
Clockstoppers (2002) Advanced Bullet time
Stable but Responsive Cloth (2002) Advanced cloth CGI simulation
SIGGRAPH Water effects (2002) Advanced CGI water simulation
Cannon Ball Through Thin Wall (2002) Advanced CGI destruction simulation
2 Funky 4 You (2002) First adult explicit CGI film
Human Digital Face R&D Project (2002) Advanced CGI facial animation
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) Advanced CGI stunt double and photogrammetry
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Advanced CGI facial animation
The Animatrix (2003) Advanced realistic CGI fighting animation
Mountain (Playstation 2) (2003) Advanced crowd AI (MASSIVE)
This Wonderful Life (2003) Advanced photorealistic CGI of a child
The Incredibles (2004) Advanced hair CGI animation
The Polar Express (2004) First stereoscopic 3D CGI full length film
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) Advanced virtual set
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege Intro (2004) Advanced realistic CGI fighting animation
Animatable Facial Reflectance Fields (2004) Advanced CGI facial animation
Appleseed (2004) First R rated CGI movie
King Kong (2005) Advanced motion capture
Unified Lagrangian Solid-Fluid Animation (2005) First CGI melting animation
Smoke Scanning (2005) Advanced smoke CGI animation
Autocosm: Gardens of Thuban (2005) First real time CGI painting in 3D
Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children (2005) Advanced realistic CGI fight
Batman Begins (2005) First photorealistic CGI body movements
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) First CGI De-aging
Blender Liquid Demo (2006) Advanced photorealistic water CGI
300 (2007) Advanced photorealistic CGI backgrounds
Beowulf (2007) Advanced photorealistic motion capture
MOVA Contour Reality Capture (2007) Advanced CGI facial animation
Efficient Simulation of Inextensible Cloth (2007) Advanced CGI cloth simulation
Nvidia's Human Head Model (2007) Advanced CGI skin
Traveler's Insurance - Snowball (2007) Advanced combination of CGI and live action
Image Metrics Emily (2008) Advanced facial motion capture
Terminator Salvation (2009) First super photorealistic CGI body double
2012 (2009) Advanced destruction CGI
Content Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization (2009) First 3D video stabilization
Directable simulation of fire (2009)
Advanced CGI
fire
Tron (2010) Advanced photorealistic CGI actor
Cloth with Adaptive Contact Linearization (2010) Advanced cloth CGI
Tangled (2010) Advanced CGI hair
Rigid Body Fracture Sound (2010) Advanced CGI sound
Machete (2010) First CGI nud..ty
Batman: Arkham City Cinematic Trailer (2011) Advanced CGI facial animation
Face Capture Eurographics (2011) Advanced facial motion capture
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) First CGI body replacement
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Advanced photorealistc animal CGI
Life of Pi (2012) Advanced photorealistic animal CGI
Halo 4 Intro (2012) Advanced CGI facial animation
Toy Story Toons: Partysaurus Rex (2012) Advanced CGI water effects
Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) Advanced photorealistic CGI stunt double
World War Z (2013) Advanced crowd A.I.
Gravity (2013) First merge of two shots through CGI
Digital Ira (2013) Advanced CGI facial animation
Frozen - A Material Point Method
For Snow Simulation (2013) Advanced CGI snow animation
HydraDeck Humans (2013) Advanced photorealistic lighting and CGI skin
The Dark Sorcerer (2013) Advanced CGI facial motion capture
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Cutscene (2014) Advanced CGI facial animation
Augmented MPM for phase change (2014) Advanced CGI liquid simulation
Ant-Man (2015) Advanced CGI deaging
Furious 7 (2015) Advanced CGI body double
Terminator Genisys (2015) Advanced photorealistic CGI human animation
Auckland Face Simulator (2015) Advanced realtime realistic CGI face simulation
Simulating Dynamic Skin Microgeometry (2015) Advanced CGI skin simulation
Sampling Based Scene-Space Video Processing (2015) First CGI removal of moving objects from video
Until Dawn - Menu Animation (2015) Advanced CGI facial animation
The Revenant (2015) Advanced CGI photorealistic animal
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) First blend of live action and fully CGI ground
Captain America: Civil War (2016) Advanced CGI deaging
Ant-Man AR model (2016)
First
full scale augmented reality human model
Real time viscoplastic deformation (2016) First deformation simulation in real time
Animating Water with Complex Acoustic (2016) Advanced CGI generated sounds
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) Advanced photorealistic CGI human
The Last of Us Part 2 - Cinematic trailer (2017) Advanced photorealistic CGI human
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Advanced CGI De-aging
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Advanced photorealistic CGI human
The Shining starring Jim Carrey (2019) Advanced Deepfake
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) Advanced CGI Deaging
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