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- jogleby, on 01/10/2008, -4/+105Lord of the Rings should have been included. Gollum was the first CGI character that could hold its own against live action actors. He was amazingly rendered and wonderfully voiced. Jar-Jar Binks, on the other hand, not so much.
- monkeyrun, on 01/10/2008, -3/+42I am pretty sure Matrix is not a landmark in CGI, "Bullet Time" is a camera technique.
- JAVandiver, on 01/10/2008, -4/+43No "Last Starfighter"? Denied!
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+24Robert Patrick as the T-1000 can still scare the piss out of me if the mood is right.
Shows just how awesome that movie is. - whiterabbitobj, on 01/10/2008, -1/+20Speaking as a CG artist... this list was written by someone who has no real clue what the major steps in CG have been. Gollum was definitely a huge advance. Sky Captain, Final Fantasy, and Beowulf most certainly were not. There were a number of early steps much more important than any of those three films, including the 3D effects used in Star Wars (death star plans, rudimentary but important), and Young Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- AndrewDS, on 01/10/2008, -1/+20What about ReBoot? Wasn't that the first completely CGI TV show?
- bazwilliams, on 01/10/2008, -0/+18No Genesis Effect? Inaccurate article - Star Trek Wrath of Khan was the first milestone in CG film by the then spin off from Lucasfilm, Pixar!
Much better history:
http://www.beanblossom.in.us/larryy/cgi.html - alfal99, on 01/10/2008, -0/+16where the hell is king kong/ gollum?
- whiteknives, on 01/10/2008, -1/+16I want a list of the "10 Crappiest moments in CGI."
- jjustice, on 01/10/2008, -3/+18Hahaha the first thing I thought when I read that title was, release of mod_cgi for apache
- hydroplane, on 01/10/2008, -9/+24Opening scene of Episode 3.
- skellener, on 01/10/2008, -0/+13Gollum deserves one of those spots instead of what's listed in #3, #2 or #1.
- Herbie555, on 01/10/2008, -0/+13Umm, the first CGI character on-screen was the Stained-glass knight from "Young Sherlock Holmes", courtesy of ILM. I don't know what version of "Jason and the Argonauts" you are referring to, but if its the Ray Harryhausen version from 1963, that was stop-motion animation, not computers...
And any list that DOESN'T include the first-on-screen CGI character, is a non-list. - arbulus, on 01/10/2008, -5/+18Spirits Within was a decent film.
Advent Children, however, was ***** amazing. - daniel1113, on 01/10/2008, -0/+12I'm glad to see that he recognized Forrest Gump as a VFX masterpiece. Unlike most VFX films, few people are able to recognize the majority of VFX scenes in Forrest Gump, which is why it is so good. Mad props to Robert Zemeckis and crew.
- Toshibi, on 01/10/2008, -0/+11Mortal Kombat 2, the Dragon Fight at the end...worst CGI EVER!
- techiemac, on 01/10/2008, -0/+10Actually there was CG involved in the Bullet Time for the Matrix. Typically when you do a bullet time shot (no pun intended), everything is green screened and in the case of the Matrix, they decided to use CG for the backgrounds simply because it was the easier option at the time.
In addition, the composting required to "get things right" with the cameras from Bullet Time requires CG composting. - PhilThePhenom, on 01/10/2008, -6/+16Final Fantasy was an amazing film and does not get the credit it deserves. Awesome page, dugg for brilliance and simplicity.
- skellener, on 01/10/2008, -1/+11#3, #2, #1 are not landmarks.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 01/10/2008, -0/+9"Say, that's a nice bike"
- WhiteRaven, on 01/10/2008, -3/+12"can't use green screens without a digital feed."
False. - kaffein, on 01/10/2008, -0/+8 * Casshern (Japan 2004) – Shot on celluloid. A few practical set pieces used. (First, not skycaptain...)
* Able Edwards (United States 2004) – Shot digitally on Canon XL1 cameras.
* Immortel (Ad Vitam) (France 2004) – Shot on celluloid. Also showed CGI characters interacting with live actors.
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (United States 2004) – Shot digitally on Sony CineAlta cameras.
* Sin City (United States 2005) – Shot digitally on CineAlta cameras. Three practical sets used.
* MirrorMask (United States/England 2005) – Shot on celluloid. 80% of film uses digital backlot. Some practical set pieces used.
* The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (United States 2005) – Shot digitally.
* 300 (United States 2007) – Shot on celluloid. Two practical sets were used.
Forgive the dupes, digg is sucking right now. - funkytaco, on 01/10/2008, -0/+8Alot of older members might catch that Star Wars was omitted, but I don't think alot of the younger crowd don't realize what Industrial Light & Magic brought to the big screen in the 70's with Star War's special effects.
- Rikushix, on 01/10/2008, -1/+9Maybe I'll get dugg down for this...but what about Reboot? All of these things mentioned were movies. Maybe I'm just biased, being from Vancouver and hence well versed about Mainframe Entertainment...but that was a sweet show I watched as a kid.
- SSCrow, on 01/10/2008, -0/+8The Spirits Within is a great Movie, The characters are deep and interesting on a level beyond the visuals. In the forum of Story.
However, Advent Children, although it had good action. Was terribly directed mess of crazy Camera moves and a blan story. - gudnbluts, on 01/10/2008, -0/+8What amazed me about that movie was the scene where he's carrying Gary Sinese around, and he has no legs. It's not flashy, but it was incredibly well done.
- kyouteki, on 01/10/2008, -1/+8How do you think they did chroma key in the days before computers? Because they've been doing it for a long time.
- daleksarewimps, on 01/10/2008, -1/+7This list really does suck. Come on, The Matrix? Now, I haven't seen Beowulf, but its not revolutionary CGI. It's an improvement over an old idea. Where's the stain glass knight from Young Sherlock Holmes? The Genesis scene from Star Trek 2? John Lasseter's The Adventures of Andre and Wally B?
Someone at Double Viking needs to take a Film class. - andritchie, on 01/10/2008, -0/+6To think that Jurassic Park came out almost 15 years ago is absolutely insane. For the most part the CG work is a masterpiece and way ahead of its time. It still holds its own to this day.
- fridenstrom, on 01/10/2008, -0/+6And they already begin to look dated.
- norman619, on 01/10/2008, -1/+7Episodes 1 - 3 were very long demo reels for the FX house nothing more.
- p_o_b, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5To me the best CGI in Forrest Gump wasn't the "Meeting famous people" scenes, those alterations were mainly obvious. The ones that impressed me were the small things like Lt. Dan's legs, the crowd of hippies at the mall, carrying the soldiers out of the jungle and, of course Bubba's lip. I didn't wonder how they made Lennon talk to Forrest, I wanted to know how they made a guy without lower legs walk so normally.
- herrshuster, on 01/10/2008, -2/+7are you 12?
- brjndr, on 01/10/2008, -1/+6T2 should have been #1. It was a landmark moment in CGI.
- 1ofMany, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5When I saw Toy Story after hearing everyone go on about how ground breaking it was I was a bit disappointed. Reboot was dong pretty much the same thing (with perhaps a little less polish) on a weekly basis.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -6/+11It's both, it used green screens with a camera, and you can't use green screens without a digital feed.
- p0ss, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5Digg, you changed man. You used to be cool. Now we don't even like the same movies...
- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -2/+8I really though it was going to be cringe worthy as the battle in Episode 1 was but it was great on a big screen.
- imightbewrong, on 01/10/2008, -1/+6300?
- patrickloggins, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5What about Money for Nothing?
- Darph.Bobo, on 01/10/2008, -1/+6I'm sure he meant no disrespect Mr. Zemeckis.
- DonCarcharo, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4I agree. I can't believe that film is so old and yet looks so good. It's even more amazing that many contemporary films, such as the latest Star Wars flicks, don't look appreciably better. Yes there's more CG, but the quality of the shots is not always better.
- jbmcb, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4Incredibly lame list, missing -
Young Sherlock Holmes - first CG character, and first use of CG compositing I believe
The Little Mermaid - First use of CG tweening in traditional animation (used on pretty much ALL 2d animation since)
The Last Starfighter - First completely CG scenes (as someone else posted above)
And as for the inclusions - "Bullet Time" is just some fancy compositing/tweening with a specialized camera rig. It's a neat effect, but it hasn't been used beyond basic action movie eye candy. - norman619, on 01/10/2008, -2/+6blue balls what?
- Acecrow, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4ٍٍDoesn't Smeagol belong in that list or am I missing something?
- Browzer, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4Would have been more interesting.
I'm sick of these stupid Top 10 lists that do nothing but catalogue pop culture references that we are all well aware of. - amercer, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4I don't care if the list is chronological, it just doesn't look right without Jurassic Park at number 1. The scene where the T-rex comes through the fence is still one of the impressive shows of CGI in film history. I don't care what anyone says, it will never look dated, that ***** looks REAL.
- SuperCujo, on 01/10/2008, -1/+5The zombies in I Am Legend
- Pake, on 01/10/2008, -1/+5Jurassic Park surprising can still hold it's own to the shows Discovery Channel puts out today. You'd think they'd be able to accomplish what was in JP with ease, but it only goes to show how good it really was.
- fenris6644, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4+1 for LotR, both for Gollum and for most of the third movie as well. Pelennor Fields is still mind-boggling.
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