Labels:text | screenshot | font | number OCR: FullView v3.04 (c) Copyright 1991 by Jonathan Potter COMPUTERS IN THE MOVIES Since the beginning of the 1990's the use of computer graphics in the movie industry has come to the public's eye. More and more movie's being made today are starting to rely on the use of computers for their special effects, Primarily for there saving in cost as compared to using expensive models, secondly for the time that can be saved, as using models is a very time consuming process. Thirdly, camera angles that would be impossible to achieve with normal equipment are easily created with the use of computer equipment, I think I would be write in thinking that many of you out there probably didn't realise that computer graphics were in fact used substantially in the movie business as far back as 1983. I thought it would be informative to anyone interested in animation and the use of computers in movies, if I brought to light some of the movies that have made use of computer animation and effects, some you may heard of, some perhaps you may not. Not all of them use the Amiga Video-Toaster, but most do and the list is growing every day. The earliest movie I can remember is 'TRON', the Walt Disney Classic that introduced computer animation to the public and proved that it was possible to build a movie around computer special effects. 'The Last Starfighter' was much publicised in that it used a CRAY MovieCOM > 29 of 160 8 % AVUDIBETO
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