EFFECT OF CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) ON FILM AND ANIMATION INDUSTRY

Literature Review

Back in the early days movies or film making was used to be an impossible task or one should say unattainable task. Movie directors used to spend hours and hours on every scene every footage day in day out concentrating how to achieve that picture that is in their mind and put it on screen. Who ever comes up with that kind of result was known to be the Da-Vinci of that time.

In the early 1820’s most of the movies were simple without any effects none of them was out of this world. But the progress was still on, visual magic like “smoke and mirrors” were used to make illusions and trick effects that have startled audiences.

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“The phenomenon of persistence of vision (it was first describe to some degree in 1824 by British physician Peter Mark Roget) is the reason why human eye sees individual frames of a movie as smooth flowing action when projected“

Which means when ever there was such scenes having ghosts, flying objects, sudden disappearing or some super natural objects, smoke and mirrors were used in each frame to produce such effects that when projected force the audience to believe in it. That is because the scene was done so smoothly that any person would say yes it exists in real.

The First Cartoon:

It was a revolution in film industry the year was 1928 when a comic creator and animator named Walter Elias Disney first released a seven minute black and white cartoon “Steam Boat Willie”, was a first cartoon with a post produced synchronized sound track (music, dialogue and sound effects) that was said to be Mickey Mouse’s first debut performance.

Later on many achievements came one after another, animators also introduced colors increase sense f movement and depth. Some of the master pieces are……….

Snow white and the seven dwarfs (1937)

For its remarkable hand drawn animation

Hunch back of Notre Dame (1939)

For its extra ordinary matte paintings creating Notre dame cathedral and medieval Paris.

Thief of Baghdad (1940)

Made in United Kingdom achieve academy award for its special effects (photographic and sound).

Marry Poppins (1964)

First movie for its special visual effects

Terminator 2 Judgment Day

Famous for its multiple morphing effects

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

It was the first hyper real computer generated (CGI) feature length film based on entirely original designs.

The list goes on ………