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- Name 5 characteristics of the 1980s. What were the 1980’s like?
- Innovators and Early Adpators
- What is the state of video games in the 1980’s?
- side scrollers, puzzle based, nintendo
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What is the state of traditional animation in the beginning of the 1980’s?
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asleep, but waking, The Little Mermaid won 2 oscars,
Why was computer art and animation out of sync with the rest of the visual world? i.e. Print media, postmodern art, film, etc.?
- not able to achieve any sense of realism, most work done by universities and labs rather then artists
- Who is Jim Blinn?
Voyager 2 animation launches many carreers, creates Blinn Shader
- What is significant about the voyager fly-by?
- lations, including the Voyager that ran on all major world news outlets that covered the event. The Voyager fly-bys were films that inspired new CG artists in the same way that Winsor McCa
- Loren Carpenter used the mathematical theories of Benoit Mandlebrot to create the first flight over an synthetic landscape. What were these mathematical theories called?
- fractal mathematics
- This initial research (voyager 2) resulted in an effect used in Star Trek II. The Wrath of Khan. What was this effect in the movie called? Why did it “sell” George Lucas on the use of computers for that shot?
- The Genesis Effect. Could replicate whole planet being destroyed
- Loren Carpenter went on to be one of the co-founders and chief science engineers at a major animation studio. Which studio was it?
- Pixar
- What rendering software is Loren responsible for helping to create?
- RenderMan
- Turner Whitted, a senior researcher at Microsoft, created The Complete Angler which was revolutionary for it’s time, showing off what types of techniques?
- improved illumination model for shaded display and introductory experiments in ray tracing
- Nelson Max created Carla’s Island, one of the first, if not the first to show off what type of simulations?
- water ripples
- Bio-Sensor by Osaka University and Toyo Links shows a technical demonstration of the development of what?
- metaballs
- Sio-Benbor and Sio-Benbor Junior are parodies that use Bio Sensor and Luxo Junior as reference. What is a reference? What is a parody?
- something that refers or points to something else
- Symbolic Graphics created Stanley and Stella, the first examples of what type of animation.
- first uses of flock animation.
- Matt Elson, in the Little Death, expanded this type of animation to another type of animation. Name it and define it.
- behavioral animation-autonomous character determines its own actions, at least to a certain extent.
- What else is the Little Death a “first” of?
- HDTV
- Why is the Martin Newell’s wife’s Utah Teapot so significant in the history of computer animation?
- became a famous icon in Computer Graphics and Animation.
- Robert and Abel associates took a huge risk making Brilliance. What was significant about Brilliance? What did this commercial sell?
- In-house software,raytracing, texture mapping, refractions, reflection mapping and hierarchical motion control applied to the human figure. Locomotion by PDI was a cute narrative that was really showing off what technique?
- squash and stretch in 3D
- It is amazing after the truly horrible results of “Don’t Touch Me” By Kleiser/Walczak that we continued to study and improve this technique that is now used heavily in gaming. What is this technique?
- first pieces to use motion capture
- Yoichiro Kawaguchi and William Latham both focus on artistic expressions generated through growth algorithms. What makes them different?
- Kawaguchi's Growth Series demonstrating automatic generation of c