Released in 1995, which was the first fully computer- animated feature film?
"for other categories, but have rarely been so; ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991) was the first animated film ever nominated for Best Picture. ""Up"" (2009) and ""Toy Story 3"" (2010) also received Best Picture nominations after the Academy expanded the number of nominees from five to ten. ""Waltz with Bashir"" (2008) is the only animated film ever nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (though it did not receive a nomination for Best Animated Feature). ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" (1993) and ""Kubo and the Two Strings"" (2016) are the only two animated films to ever be nominated for Best Visual Effects."
"Before Christmas"" and ""James and the Giant Peach"". Sometimes even objects are used, such as with the films of Jan Švankmajer. Stop motion animation was also commonly used for special effects work in many live-action films, such as the 1914 Italian cult epic film ""Cabiria"", the 1933 version of ""King Kong"" and ""The 7th Voyage of Sinbad"". The first fully computer-animated feature film was Pixar's ""Toy Story"" (1995). The process of CGI animation is still very tedious and similar in that sense to traditional animation, and it still adheres to many of the same principles. A principal difference of CGI"
"backgrounds are then combined, using software that allows for camera movements, multiplane effects, and other techniques—including compositing with 3D image material. The system's first feature film use was in ""The Little Mermaid"" (1989), for the ""farewell rainbow"" scene near the end, but the first full-scale use was for ""The Rescuers Down Under"" (1990), which therefore became the first traditionally animated film to be entirely produced on computer—or indeed, the first 100% digital feature film of any kind ever produced. The 1980s saw the appearance of many notable new commercial software products: The 1990s began with much of CGI technology now"
"in the creation of photo-realistic images of science-fiction and fantasy characters, settings, and objects. Images can be created in a computer using the techniques of animated cartoons and model animation. The Last Starfighter (1984) used computer generated spaceships instead of physical scale models. In 1993, stop-motion animators working on the realistic dinosaurs of Steven Spielberg's ""Jurassic Park"" were retrained in the use of computer input devices. By 1995, films such as ""Toy Story"" underscored that the distinction between live-action films and animated films was no longer clear. Other landmark examples include a character made up of broken pieces of a"
"first fully computer animated feature film, ""Toy Story"", with software it designed in-house and whose computer animation films have since garnered 26 Academy Awards and critical acclaim. Industrial Light & Magic, which is based in the Presidio in San Francisco, was created in 1975 to help create visual effects for the ""Star Wars"" series has since been involved with creating visual effects for over three hundred Hollywood films. Throughout its recent history, the Bay Area has been home to several musical movements that left lasting influences on the genres they affected. San Francisco, in particular, was the center of the"
"computer graphics in graphic design studios and businesses. Modern computer systems, dating from the 1980s and onwards, often use a graphical user interface (GUI) to present data and information with symbols, icons and pictures, rather than text. Graphics are one of the five key elements of multimedia technology. 3D graphics became more popular in the 1990s in gaming, multimedia and animation. In 1996, Quake, one of the first fully 3D games, was released. In 1995, Toy Story, the first full-length computer-generated animation film, was released in cinemas. Since then, computer graphics have become more accurate and detailed, due to more"
"(1995), ""Antz"" (1998), ""Shrek"", and ""Monsters, Inc."" (both 2001), and computer games such as ""Sims"". ""Casper"" (1995), a milestone in this decade, was the first movie in which a lead actor was produced exclusively using digital facial animation. The sophistication of the films increased after 2000. In ""The Matrix Reloaded"" and ""The Matrix Revolutions"", dense optical flow from several high-definition cameras was used to capture realistic facial movement at every point on the face. ""Polar Express (film)"" used a large Vicon system to capture upward of 150 points. Although these systems are automated, a large amount of manual clean-up effort"
"Computer Animation Production System for Disney. After the success of ""Tin Toy"", Pixar made a deal with Disney to produce feature films. The first of these films, 1995's ""Toy Story"", was a smash hit, which in turn led to additional successful films such as ""A Bug's Life"" and ""Toy Story 2"". By then, Jobs had become the owner of Pixar by keeping it alive with additional investments over the years; he had often considered selling it but changed his mind after ""Toy Story"". Pixar's string of critical and box-office successes continued with ""Monsters, Inc."", ""Finding Nemo"", ""The Incredibles"", ""Cars"", ""Ratatouille"","
"film and the first-ever full-length computer animated film, ""Toy Story"". A dedicated research and development team worked alongside the filmmakers to devise ways to get around the burdens of animating a human character, with an in-house simulator mimicking the natural movements of clothing on a character. Subdivision surfacing, a modeling technique pioneered by Catmull, was used to give the character natural movement and realistic skin textures. ""Geri's Game"" premiered on November 24, 1997, winning an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film the following year. It was later shown with the theatrical release of Pixar's second feature film, ""A Bug's"
"Pixar films Toy Story and A Bug's Life. The demo reel also contains some commercials and titles Segal directed and his animation work for the television series Pee-Wee's Playhouse. ""Toy Story"" (1995) was the first computer-animated feature film in Pixar's debut contract with Disney. In 2015, movie writer Julia Zorthian said in TIME, ""Children and adults flocked to theaters when Toy Story opened, making it the highest-selling film for three weeks in a row. As the first full-length, 3D computer-animated movie, it was a milestone for animation, possibly the most significant since the introduction of color."" Steve Segal Steve Segal"
"the ""Ice Age"" film series (2002–present), ""Shark Tale"" (2004), ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (2005), ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" film series (2005–10), ""Cars"" (2006), and ""Happy Feet"" (2006). Significant Pixar computer animated films of the decade were: ""Finding Nemo"" (2003), ""The Incredibles"" (2004), ""Wall-E"" (2008), and ""Up"" (2009). While significant DreamWorks computer animated films of the decade were: the Shrek film series (2001–10), ""Madagascar"" (2005) and its sequel """" (2008), and ""Kung Fu Panda"" (2008), So far, in the 2010s, live-action family films include ""Alice in Wonderland"" (2010), and ""Hugo"" (2011), directed by Martin Scorsese. Animated films in this genre"
"Lion King"" (US, 1994), ""The Prince of Egypt"" (US, 1998), ""Akira"" (Japan, 1988), ""Spirited Away"" (Japan, 2001), ""The Triplets of Belleville"" (France, 2003), and ""The Secret of Kells"" (Irish-French-Belgian, 2009). Full animation refers to the process of producing high-quality traditionally animated films that regularly use detailed drawings and plausible movement, having a smooth animation. Fully animated films can be made in a variety of styles, from more realistically animated works like those produced by the Walt Disney studio (""The Little Mermaid"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""Aladdin"", ""The Lion King"") to the more 'cartoon' styles of the Warner Bros. animation studio."
"use computer-generated graphics extensively, integrating the simulated dinosaurs almost seamlessly into live action scenes. This event transformed the film industry; in 1995, the film ""Toy Story"" was the first film to use only computer-generated images and by the new millennium computer generated graphics were the leading choice for special effects in films. The advent of virtual cinematography in the early 2000s (decade) has led to an explosion of movies that would have been impossible to shoot without it. Classic examples are the digital look-alikes of Neo, Smith and other characters in the Matrix sequels and the extensive use of physically"
"specialized in computer-animated films for Square. They started in 1997, with the goal to eventually ""incorporate the movie division's technical advances into its games, spinning a cycle of creativity with games inspiring movies that in turn improve games."" In 1998 it was announced that Square was partnering with Sony/Columbia to bring a full-length Final Fantasy movie to theaters ""in the ambitious goal to be the first to simulate human emotions and movements through computer graphics."" and in 2000, the film was revealed as """". Sony released the film on July 11, 2001, but could only muster mixed reviews. Massive cost"
"and Madagascar as well as numerous Pixar offerings like Finding Nemo dominating the box office in this field. The """", released in 2001, was the first fully computer-generated feature film to use photorealistic CGI characters and be fully made with motion capture. The film was not a box-office success, however. Some commentators have suggested this may be partly because the lead CGI characters had facial features which fell into the ""uncanny valley"". Other animated films like ""The Polar Express"" drew attention at this time as well. Star Wars also resurfaced with its prequel trilogy and the effects continued to set"
"the television film ""The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes"" in 1995 starring Kirk Cameron as Dexter Riley. Other Disney Channel films carrying similar plot elements were the ""Not Quite Human"" film series, which aired in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The films were based on the series of novels with the same name. The animated title sequence, by future Academy Award-winning British visual effects artist Alan Maley, reproduced the look of contemporary computer graphics using stop motion photography of paper cutouts. It has been cited as an early example of ""computational kitsch."" The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes The Computer Wore"
"Flying Daggers"", ""Planet of the Apes"", ""Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"", ""World Trade Center"", ""Fool's Gold"", ""300"", ""Knowing"", ""Australia"", ""Sucker Punch"" and most recently ""The Great Gatsby"". In 2002, Animal Logic began work on its first computer-animated feature film, the Academy Award-winning ""Happy Feet"", for director George Miller. Released in the United States on 17 November 2006, the project saw the company expand significantly, recruiting up to 300 artists and technicians from Australia and around the world. ""Happy Feet"", which was the first computer animated feature film produced in Australia, went on to win the Academy Award for"
"from its ten-year exile to Glendale. A 240,000-square-foot building designed by Robert A. M. Stern opened across the street from the main Disney lot in Burbank on December 16, 1994. In 1995, Disney partnered with Pixar to create ""Toy Story"", Disney's first fully computer-animated film. The next Disney animated film, 1995's ""Pocahontas"", opened to mixed reviews, though it still earned $346 million worldwide and garnered two Academy Awards for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score and Best Original Song for ""Colors of the Wind."" The following year, ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", Disney's first animated film produced at a budget"
"by Walt Disney Pictures on November 4, 2005, in Disney Digital 3-D (the first film to be released in this format) along with the standard 2-D version. It is Disney's first fully computer animated feature film, as Pixar's films were distributed, but not produced by Disney, and ""Dinosaur"" (2000) was a combination of live-action and computer animation. ""Chicken Little"" was Disney's second adaptation of the fable after a propaganda cartoon made during World War II. The film is also the last Disney animated film made before then-Pixar executive John Lasseter was named chief creative officer of Disney Animation and the"
"film industry. The 1993 film ""Jurassic Park"" used a combination of computer-generated imagery in conjunction with life-sized animatronic dinosaurs built by Stan Winston and his team. Winston's animatronic ""T. rex"" stood almost , appearance and natural movement on screen of a full-sized tyrannosaurus rex. Jack Horner called it ""the closest I've ever been to a live dinosaur"". Critics referred to Spielberg's ""dinosaurs"" as ""breathtakingly — and terrifyingly — realistic"". The 1999 BBC miniseries ""Walking with Dinosaurs"" was produced using a combination of about 80% CGI and 20% animatronic models. The quality of computer imagery of the day was good, but"
"use of large-scale miniatures. The release of ""Jurassic Park"" (1993) was a turning point in the use of computers to create effects for which physical miniatures would have previously been employed. While the use of computer generated imagery (CGI) has largely overtaken their use since then, they are still often employed, especially for projects requiring physical interaction with fire, explosions or water. ""Independence Day"" (1996), ""Titanic"" (1997), ""Godzilla"" (1998), The ""Star Wars"" prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy (2001-3), ""Casino Royale"" (2006), ""The Dark Knight"" (2008), ""Inception"" (2010), and ""Interstellar"" (2014) are examples of highly successful films"
"becoming Disney's largest single shareholder at the time. Pixar is best known for CGI-animated feature films created with RenderMan, Pixar's own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface, used to generate high-quality images. Pixar has produced 20 feature films, beginning with ""Toy Story"" (1995), which was the first-ever computer-animated feature film; its most recent film was ""Incredibles 2"" (2018). All of the studio's films have debuted with CinemaScore ratings of at least an ""A−,"" indicating positive receptions with audiences. The studio has also produced dozens of short films. , its feature films have earned approximately $13 billion at"
"live-action family films such as ""Back to the Future Part III"" (1990), which brought the Back to the Future franchise into this decade, ""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"" (1990), ""Home Alone"" (1990) and its sequel """" (1992), ""Hook"" (1991), ""Alan & Naomi"" (1992), ""Jurassic Park"" (1993), Steve Zaillian's, ""Searching for Bobby Fischer"" (1993), ""Super Mario Bros (film)"" (1993), ""Mrs. Doubtfire"" (1993), ""The Flintstones (film)"" (1994), ""Baby's Day Out"" (1994), ""Babe"" (1995), ""Jumanji"" (1995), ""101 Dalmatians"" (1996), ""Fly Away Home"" (1996), ""Vegas Vacation"" (1997), and ""October Sky"" (1999). Family films of the 2000s include: ""Dinosaur"" (2000), ""The Grinch"" (2000), ""Monsters, Inc."" (2001),"
"The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1995 film) The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is a 1995 American made-for-television comedy science fiction film and a remake of the 1969 film of the same name produced by Walt Disney Television which premiered on February 18, 1995 as part of ""The Wonderful World of Disney"". It is the second in a series of four remakes of Disney live-action films produced for broadcast on ABC during the 1994–95 television season. Directed by Peyton Reed, it stars Kirk Cameron in the lead role of Dexter Riley, a boy who becomes an instant genius, wired directly into"
"most or all of the film was done using the xerographic process which had been in place at Disney since the late 1950s. Spencer would win a technical Academy Award for this process, but the computer would soon render the APT process obsolete. ""The Black Cauldron"" is notable for being Disney's first animated feature film to incorporate computer-generated imagery in its animation for bubbles, a boat, a floating orb of light, and the cauldron itself. Despite ""The Black Cauldron"" being released a year before ""The Great Mouse Detective"", both films were in production simultaneously for some time and the computer"
"of: Like the ""Mind's Eye"" series, the ""Computer Animation"" series consists of a main series of 3 computer-generated package films. The main ""Computer Animation"" series was released between 1993 and 1996 and was distributed by Sony Music Video. The 1997 release of ""Computer Animation Classics"" - consisting of 27 shorts from early experimental years of CGI animation - was regarded by reviewers as a collector's item of historical significance. As before, a number of Odyssey's videos contain oblique references to the ""Computer Animation"" series in their titles. If these titles are considered a part of the series, this puts the"
"developments with computer systems led Marc Levoy of Cornell University and Hanna-Barbera Productions to develop a video animation system for cartoons in the early 1980s. The first usage of the CAPS process was Mickey standing on Epcot's Spaceship Earth for ""The Magical World of Disney"" titles. The system's first feature film test was in the production of ""The Little Mermaid"" in 1989 where it was used in a single shot of the rainbow sequence at the end of the film. After Mermaid, films were made completely using CAPS; the first of these, ""The Rescuers Down Under"", was the first 100%"
"5 stars overall. Bibliography Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 American computer-animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the ""Final Fantasy"" series of role-playing video games. It was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and was the most expensive video game-inspired film until the release of """" in 2010. It features the voices of Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin and Steve Buscemi. ""The Spirits Within"" follows scientists Aki Ross and Doctor Sid in their efforts to free a post-apocalyptic Earth from a mysterious"
"Casper (film) Casper is a 1995 American live-action/computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Brad Silberling, based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost created by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo. The film stars Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle, and Amy Brenneman, and also features the voices of Malachi Pearson in the title role as well as Joe Nipote, Joe Alaskey, and Brad Garrett. The film makes extensive use of computer-generated imagery to create the ghosts, and it is the first feature film to have a fully CGI character in the lead role. It goes"
"the most ambitious CGI project since the 1982 film ""Tron"". The other was Disney's ""Beauty and the Beast"", the second traditional 2D animated film to be entirely made using CAPS. The system also allowed easier combination of hand-drawn art with 3D CGI material, notably in the ""waltz sequence"", where Belle and Beast dance through a computer-generated ballroom as the camera ""dollies"" around them in simulated 3D space. Notably, ""Beauty and the Beast"" was the first animated film ever to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. Another significant step came in 1993, with Steven Spielberg's ""Jurassic Park"", where 3D"
"""Tin Toy"" (1988). Released in 1995, ""Toy Story"" opened to critical acclaim and commercial success, leading to Pixar signing a five-film deal with Disney, which bore critically and financially successful computer animated films such as ""A Bug's Life"" (1998), ""Toy Story 2"" (1999), ""Monsters, Inc."" (2001), and ""Finding Nemo"" (2003). In addition, the successes of ""Aladdin"" and ""The Lion King"" spurred a significant increase in the number of American-produced animated features throughout the rest of the decade, with the major film studios establishing new animation divisions such as Fox Animation Studios, Sullivan Bluth Studios, Rich Animation Studios, Turner Feature Animation,"
"Computer-animated films turned out to be wildly popular, and animated films returned the highest gross margins (around 52%) of all film genres in the 2004-2013 timeframe. Computer animation also made inroads into television. The Saturday morning animated series ""ReBoot"" won a large cult following among adults; it was the first of a number of CGI-generated animated series, including ""Beast Wars"", ""War Planets"", and ""Roughnecks"". The quality of the computer animation improved considerably with each successive series. Many live-action TV series (especially science fiction TV series such as ""Babylon 5"") invested heavily in CGI production, creating a heretofore-unavailable level of special"
"3"", ""Titanic"", ""MouseHunt"", ""Mr. Magoo"" and the re-release of ""The Little Mermaid"". The movie was started in March 1995, and ended production in December 1996. 150 people from around the world worked on the movie, as well as animators in the computer animation department that worked on the backgrounds, the robot centaur in the movie, Powertool, as well as vehicles. The colorization, as well as the animation camera was created digitally. The film costed 15 million in USD. The Fearless Four (film) The Fearless Four (German: ""Die furchtlosen Vier"") is a 1997 animated film about four funny animals that all"