There's something funny about TRON - a little trivia: Despite its pioneering use of CGI, this movie was passed over by the Motion Picture Academy for an award in animation because they said Lisberger "cheated" by using computers. Lisberger is quoted as calling that decision "ironic".
@KyrosTheWolf3 жыл бұрын
It's still amazing how good Tron looks after nearly 40 years!
@Sonicsubject2 жыл бұрын
Ga
@lawrencedoliveiro91044 жыл бұрын
6:17 What was a “frame buffer”? It was a block of memory large enough to hold an entire image frame. At 640×480 resolution and monochrome, that was about 300K bytes, at a 6-figure price tag. The NYIT Computer Graphics Lab, funded by a wealthy benefactor, bought 3 of them. This enabled them to do the first experiments in RGB colour.
@japoople4 жыл бұрын
5:15 man turns into a fucking car
@wastelandwanderer38834 ай бұрын
Now imagine a 10-year old looking at that new technology? 😲ME! It was amazing!
@AncientChess4 жыл бұрын
That's my dad, 1:15 through 1:09. Ken Knowlton
@zachatck644 жыл бұрын
No offense but I don't believe you
@dontroutman82324 жыл бұрын
In the world of arcade video games, many of us will remember Pong, Space Wars, and the early 1980's Asteriods, as some of the first Vector Graphics display games that were commercially available. By 1983, to my knowledge, we saw the last of the color vector games, with Star Wars & Star Trek combat flight games, and Tempest.
@deejaymek6 жыл бұрын
Enjoying these, great work. A minor quibble: the voiceover could be a little more relaxed. Looking forward to the next one.
@picsnportraits6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I’m still getting used to talking into a microphone. Thanks for watching!
@deejaymek6 жыл бұрын
It's a minor issue. Maybe just a little slower! Hard to catch what you say sometimes. I didn't mean to come off like a dick. Top work.
@lawrencedoliveiro91044 жыл бұрын
0:48 Unix was not a programming language, it was an operating system. And a philosophy for how an operating system should work. Nowadays the embodiment of this is called “Linux”.
@KieferSkunk4 жыл бұрын
You could be forgiven for calling it a programming language, in that its original purpose was to facilitate programming mainframes. But you're right, it's not a language itself.
@lawrencedoliveiro91044 жыл бұрын
Unix was never designed for “programming mainframes”. The whole Bell Labs computer setup was mainframe-free.
@euphorbia8106 Жыл бұрын
Ummm ackshually its GNU/Linux sweaty..
@dallasurban9676 Жыл бұрын
This channel provides a new level of historical depth. Thank you so much.
@ericpa066 жыл бұрын
Dude, amazing video!
@picsnportraits6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@ericpa066 жыл бұрын
Thank YOU for having made it! I find this topic totally fascinating, actually. I mean, CGI is reaching a point in which 3D humans are starting to get indistinguishable from the real ones (they are still walking a little bit through the uncanny valley - but not for long)... the range of possibilities that this opens are endless! I mean, just imagine people doing new movies with well known deceased actors, such as Audrey Hepburn and so on.. Another pretty interesting thing is that it's getting easier and easier to the average joe, through the development of simpler tools and A.I, to create more and more complex and realistically special effects without being a expert on CGI and without spending hundreds of millions of dollars. Let alone thinking about how this would affect things like "right to image" and people creating fake hyperrealistic videos of whatever they want to spread lies. I would love to watch a video with your take about the future of CGI, by the way.
@picsnportraits6 жыл бұрын
I completely agree with you. I've planned for this to be a four part series, with the last video focusing on the 2000s and what the future holds. I really like the idea that actors could portray deceased actors portraying a character, but there may be some ethical issues there. Great comment, thanks again for your interest!
@unstopitable3 ай бұрын
Wonderful.
@jasonyung57495 жыл бұрын
amazing documentary, thank you for making this
@JReynolds095 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video, awesome stuff compiled here!
@picsnportraits5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@dontroutman82324 жыл бұрын
CG history, part 2 of 4... Bell labs and Boeing employees begin to defined Computer Graphics, with simple Vector displays. In a cathode ray tube (TV monitor), the electron gun fires points and lines directly, versus raster scan, where 1 gun (B&W), then 3 gun (RGB), where the guns continuously scan top to bottom, back and forth, though each new horizontal line is omni-directional, e.g. L-R, L-R, L-R, etc. (30 frames pet second). In 1970's films, this is why one can see a T.V. monitor's flicker occasionally, since film general runs at 24 frames a second.
@chucku003 жыл бұрын
At first I thought I mistakenly clicked on NiN's "Came back haunted". 4:27 Made me remember about TF1 "Le Cinéma du Dimanche soir", and after verification, it was also created with scanimate, along with the phenomenal TF1 startup/shutdown IDs.
@heredownunder2 жыл бұрын
The idea for TRON came from the game Pong. I see it now!
@johneygd5 жыл бұрын
Very Impressive.
@nemakuci4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful documentary.
@AlexMagma4 жыл бұрын
Rede Globo representando.
@Blueskies25132 жыл бұрын
Is that PATRICK MORAZ I hear in the background
@sandothemando89243 жыл бұрын
Tron still looks superior, more creative, and more imaginative than most CGI films today...
@dallasurban9676 Жыл бұрын
Are you open to consultation or joining a team?
@zozo38145 жыл бұрын
4:00 that happen me sometimes when i see
@TomChabassiere4 жыл бұрын
2:11 : Title of this music, please ?
@picsnportraits4 жыл бұрын
Variation of Apollo (Apollo and the Muses) from Stravinsky’s Apollo. Here is a link kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bq6kjdCG17yUdIk.html
@TomChabassiere2 жыл бұрын
@@picsnportraits , would it be possible to put online this music with the same tone like this video which here is the link and the timeline: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f86Bo5mW1NKbZpc.html (at 2:11) ?
@jasonyung57495 жыл бұрын
i had no idea that john whitney did the 2001 stargate sequence!!!
@larrystephencuba3 жыл бұрын
he didn't. there are several errors in this history.
@rodrickswife4ever3 жыл бұрын
8:15 🌞
@heavysystemsinc.3 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised there's no mention of Magi Synthevision which did work on Tron and had a unique take on the principle of computer graphics by employing their previous work on nuclear meltdown simulations. To summarize, they had been commissioned to do 'ray tracing' of nuclear particles in the event of a meltdown to see which parts of a reactor would be most vulnerable. One of the engineers thought, 'what if we trace light over these models and bounce them into a 'lens', and thus ray tracing cgi was born (in 1966 I believe) which is just now making it's way into realtime 3d accelerator cards. The process is extremely processor intensive, but is used for rendering most film cgi as it's fairly 'accurate' in portraying shading from light sources.
@stevecharmer42963 жыл бұрын
Where is Tubby the Tuba????
@franciscodomingues97383 жыл бұрын
Generation X.
@mpr_havin4 жыл бұрын
Scanimation
@fododude6 жыл бұрын
Hire a voiceover artist and this could be a great film.
@corosou6 жыл бұрын
UNIX is not a computer language. Please do your research.
@placeholdier5 жыл бұрын
@deekat3279 Sorry for responding this late, but from what I barely searched, Unix is an operating system, not a computer language. :^)