21-10-2005, 20:35
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RIP Tigger - 14 years?!
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Re: Did you know?
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Originally Posted by patrickp
Yes, people forget that Star Wars, I think, was effectively the first film to use CGI.
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No, it wasn't. They did use computer control for the cameras, but CGI back then was in its infancy and wasn't even called CGI at the time. They weren't the first to use computer control, either; 2001 was the first film to employ this, although they didn't use it to the extent ILM did.
The computer graphic displays were done by Dan O'Bannon, using the same techniques he used to such effect in Dark Star - not a computer in sight.
Boiler: "He told us this, uh, four years ago."
Doolittle: "No, I think it was four years ago."
(Boiler nods, then realises)
Boiler: "That's what I said."
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