40 Year Old 3D Computer Graphics (Pixar, 1972)
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5. 40 Year Old 3D Computer Graphics (Pixar, 1972)
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In 1972 Ed Catmull (founder of Pixar) and his colleagues created the world's first 3D rendered movie, an animated version of Ed's left hand. This is the film that they produced. It includes some "making of" footage (around 1:30) and some other early experiments. Read more at nerdplusart.com/?p=1106.
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and the wireframe face at 4:56 is dripping with nostalgia. the vignetting, lens (projector? not sure how this was printed) defocus away from the center, the dust and scratches, poorly registered frames, bright point glitches... just awesome.
NGONS! :)
Kazo, thanks for the suggestion. As a matter of fact, I've read a multitude of books in my life, though admittedly not on early history of Pixar. But it's true, I shouldn't have jumped to early conclusions based on first impressions - it just looked so purposefully hoaxish to me. They did a good job of making something real look like a hoax ;) I thought someone took 3dsmax, imported a free low-poly hand model, played around with it, added ageing filters and camera shake, and some laboratory footage from that era. Oh well, how one can err...
But I know in this day and age it's easy to assume "fake".
Other than that, not quite sure what to say. The video quality may be because they were using very slow rending devices and likely had somewhat primitive capture technology from the renderer. The "live" action footage may have been kept in B&W to be consistent. I'm really not sure. But this is definitely and truly not a hoax (although it would be a cool one if were).
You read the rest of the back story here: nerdplusart.com/?p=1106.
Having said that, I would not list this as Pixar, as it's not, and I think a lot of the skepticism arises from that title.
I don't think it's a fake at all. Yes the music is likely circa 1951 (adding to the vintage experience), and the "video capture" is probably a camera pointing at a monitor (pos hence vignetting). The anotation states that they went on to form pixar so the fact that Pixar is 7 years later seems quite plausible. The font's are very of the time, and the live footage also appears in keeping with the era. I suspect the actual age of the physical film and being stored over many years will have contributed to some anomolies and degeneration in the physical film. Whether the work all was black and white originally is not obvious, but of little significance.
Regardless, there is no reason to assume a hoax.
youtu.be/15bgiWBdjlU?t=5m20s
kids nowadays never knew how far we've come fr spending days punching on digits on "crunchy keys" on the keyboard to just clicking on presets to get a good render..
To friends teasing at me for saying I've read this or that on Wiki, I remind that it's like anything else you might hear from other people, and that nothing is absolute, except maybe, relatively, hard printed matter. i.e. books, or official research papers. But those might not portray an absolute reality neither, for a huge range of reasons, of which most are not necessarily ill-intended.
Anyway, I'm grateful for, and moved by having watched this, merely for believing it might actually be a real historical artifact. Even if that's not the case, it's still a cool and invigorating notion.
That said, there are some great clatifying comments on my blog entry about this, more details from the story and even some clarification from Fred Parke himself (the co-creator of the video) with details about who they chose as the model for the face animation.
Also, someone pointed to this youtube video, a documentary about Pixar, which also contains a portion of this film: youtu.be/_Y7mPH4I2zc?t=3m20s
One other interesting detail that emerged: "For the facial animation, it took ~2.5/minutes to render out each B&W frame. That’s on hardware that was probably in the ballpark of $400,000 in 1972 dollars."
Also, great comments from other children of the pioneering men of that era, including the families of David Evans and Ivan Sutherland. Definitely worth checking out: nerdplusart.com/first-3d-rendered-film-from-1972-and-my-visit-to-pixar
CGI timeline: zauberklang.ch/timeline.php
Maybe an inspiration? :D
Anything not published in movies or TV in that time, you can consider fake. The music just make this more suspicious.
Great thanks, i made a post on my blog about it. - "the internet (blogs) doing History, 3d" (in Portuguese) virtual-illusion.blogspot.com/2012/02/internet-blogs-fazer-historia-3d.html