Weird Old CGI

[Melooon]

What are some of your favourite weird old CGIs?? I KNOW you have some

The Mind's Eye

This damn face

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing Music Video

[nymphaeaphoo]

oooh yes i do have some weird cgi's. not that old, although some are old in style.


JackStauber
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=aT7c5J7Utf8
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FP9y7F_rzzo

bill wurtz
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zNTaVTMoNTk

Cool 3D World
(very weird)
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zJGvJtE94tY
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zw7zrs4xX0g
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-By9B6rSefk

Chris Jones
another damn face https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ueYtM2KprqY
also https://yewtu.be/watch?v=opsUr3jUpY4

[Frost Sheridan]

aw man, i love older CGI and 3d graphics because of how otherworldly and mystical it is. the limitations of early 3d tech meant that artists couldn't just recreate realistic-looking scenes, so they had to create entirely new styles instead that could be rendered by this early tech. if you're forced to make something different from reality, you're no longer bound by its limitations, so you might as well just make it as weird and crazy and cool as possible!

sadly, this style pretty much totally vanished once computers got powerful enough to start attempting to recreate the look of reality. nowadays, it seems like all that CGI does is chase ever more realistic graphics instead of using the increases in computing power to further break the rules and explore outside the bounds of reality.

one of my personal favorite example of earlier 3D graphics is "mosaik" by haujobb, a PC demo from 2001. it's definitely newer than the examples posted by melooon, but i think it's still interesting.

[Memory]

Love old Sci Fi Channel idents/bumpers

[garystu]

I love The Minds Eye series! I've seen the original, Beyond, and Gate. My tier list: Beyond > Gate > Minds Eye (original).

(^ to lurkers: these are all free on youtube ^)


Polly Gone by Shelly Lake:

Computer Dreams (documentary, 1988):

This interview with Pete Docter from a Making Of Toy Story documentary gives a really good look into the software the movie used, what the animation UI for the old cgi tool looked like. Skip to 0:33 to get to the interview, the video starts with John Lasseter! skip him!

How are Characters Animated at Pixar? - Toy Story Behind the Scenes

Spoiler

The Making of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 documentaries are both really good in general, if you can stomach the tonnes of Lasseter hero worship 🤮.

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