when did they start using cgi in movies
1973
title: History of computer animation text: across Japan. Later in the '80s, Kitching developed versions of Antics for SGI and Apple Mac platforms, and these achieved a wider global distribution. The first cinema feature movie to make extensive use of solid 3D CGI was Walt Disney's "Tron", directed by Steven Lisberger, in 1982. The film is celebrated as a milestone in the industry, though less than twenty minutes of this animation were actually used—mainly the scenes that show digital "terrain", or include vehicles such as "Light Cycles", tanks and ships. To create the CGI scenes, Disney turned to the four leading computer graphics firms of the title: History of computer animation text: flocking, and brought it to widespread attention by mentioning it in the actual script. Other early uses were the flocking bats in Tim Burton's "Batman Returns" (1992), and the wildebeest stampede in Disney's "The Lion King" (1994). With improving hardware, lower costs, and an ever-increasing range of software tools, CGI techniques were soon rapidly taken up in both film and television production. In 1993, J. Michael Straczynski's "Babylon 5" became the first major television series to use CGI as the primary method for their visual effects (rather than using hand-built models), followed later the same year by Rockne S. O'Bannon's title: History of computer animation text: Jr." (1986), "Red's Dream" (1987), and "Tin Toy" (1988), which was also the first computer-generated animated short film to win an Academy Award. Then, after some long negotiations between Disney and Pixar, a partnership deal was agreed in 1991 with the aim of producing a full feature movie, and "Toy Story" was the result. The following years saw a greatly increased uptake of digital animation techniques, with many new studios going into production, and existing companies making a transition from traditional techniques to CGI. Between 1995 and 2005 in the USA, the average effects budget for a wide-release feature film title: Modern animation in the United States text: The film "Titanic" used computer effects in nearly every scene of its three-hour running time; one of the film's 11 Oscars was for special effects. While Disney had made the film "Tron"—which extensively mixed live action, traditional animation, and CGI—in 1982, and introduced the CAPS system to enhance traditional animation in 1990s "The Rescuers Down Under", a completely computer-animated feature film had yet to be made. In 1995, Disney partnered with Pixar to produce "Toy Story", the first feature film made entirely using CGI. The film's success was so great that other studios looked into producing their own CGI films. title: Computer-generated imagery text: Computer-generated imagery Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, films, television programs, shorts, commercials, videos, and simulators. The visual scenes may be dynamic or static and may be two-dimensional (2D), though the term "CGI" is most commonly used to refer to 3D computer graphics used for creating scenes or special effects in films and television. Additionally, the use of 2D CGI is often mistakenly referred to as "traditional animation", most often in the case when dedicated animation software such as Adobe Flash or Toon Boom is