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{{quote|''"From [[Stuff Blowing Up|explosions]] to [[Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning|lighting effects]], the use of computers to create film effects and animation offers so much more scope for the creation of brilliant cinematography.
{{quote|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg "How'd you do this?"]''|'''Dr. Alan Grant''', ''[[Jurassic Park]]''}}
''Who knows what kind of amazing things we can expect to see on the big screen next?"''
|'''Vue International''', ''[http://www.myvue.com/film-news/article/title/how%20cgi%20has%20changed%20the%20face%20of%20animation How CGI has changed the face of animation]'' (2013)}}
 
Computer generated graphics have been a revolution in film making. From a slow start in the late seventies, through the eighties where they were seen as a less than fully practical utility, to the nineties and beyond when they started to become nearly ubiquitous in all blockbusters and even many less [[Special Effects]] heavy films and become cheap enough to appear on TV.
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[Westworld]]'' from 1973 was the very first feature film to use CGI. They used digital image processing to create a [[Robo Cam]] effect.
** Its sequel ''[[Futureworld]]'' featured a 3D CGI hand and face
* [[George Lucas]] and [[Industrial Light and Magic]] were big drivers behind the use of CGI. ''[[Star Wars]]'' was the first major mainstream use, but only for small details. Yet over the years, ILM has been behind many of the developements and successful uses.
** ''Star Wars: [[Revenge of the Sith]]'' was pretty famous for not having a single on-location shot, with everything done with green-screen studios. But one set was a complete set with nothing green in it except for Yoda: the ''Tantive IV'' that would become Leia's ship in the opening of ''[[A New Hope]]''.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* CGI caught on much sooner in broadcasting than it did in film, largely due to the smaller budgets involved, and most of its appearances on TV were in advertising, [[Station Identification]] and educational shows like ''[[The Electric Company]]'' due to its strange but eye-catching appearance. The first computers used in video work were analog machines like Scanimate, which were in turn based on the switcher consoles used in TV studios (some of which later incorporated Scanimate-like effects such as picture-in-picture). Later on, as digital computers became more capable, animation from companies like Cranston/Csuri, Digital Productions and [[Dreamworks Animation|Pacific Data Images]] became common, as did special-effects systems like the Chyron and the Paintbox. TV commercials are also what kept [[Pixar]] alive in the years between leaving ILM and the premiere of ''[[Toy Story]]''.
* 1990s TV classic ''[[Babylon 5]]'' was only made possible by using CGI. Having received heavily burned fingers due to the massive budget overruns of ''[[V]]'', [[Warner Brothers]] was not willing to stump up a mega budget for JMS's epic space opera, and using CGI was literally the only way the show could get made.
* Averted, to the surprise of many, by the original TV series version of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''—the "computer graphics" display of Guide entries which made up so much of the show were actually painstakingly ''hand-animated'' using traditional methods.
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