Comments on: Cold War CGI

By: Austin Papageorge

Austin Papageorge — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:56:23 +0000

It looks like something from the original Game Boy.

By: daniel thomas macinnes

daniel thomas macinnes — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:36:48 +0000

When I first saw this, it reminded me of the original Nintendo Gameboy. It has that dot matrix look, doesn’t it?

I really love the early pioneering work in computer graphics. I discovered this film when I discovered the amazing work of the Whitney Bros.

Also, extra bonus points to whoever called out “Worker and Parasite.” Hah hah! What the hell was that?!

By: red pill junkie

red pill junkie — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:06:42 +0000

You guys see what Amid is doing, don’t you?

He’s implying that CG Animation started as a secret Communist weapon intended to destroy American capitalists!

Kudos to you, sir :)

By: Brooks Michael Williams

Brooks Michael Williams — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:34:41 +0000

This was leagues smoother than I thought it was going to be — good post Amid. Animation history like this is very interesting to me, and this post made me very happy. :D

By: Bitter Animator

Bitter Animator — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:15:14 +0000

@Iritscen – Well early ASCII art it might be but people were creating similar art on old typewriters years before. I have a great picture in a box somewhere created by a relative who died during WW2 of a city created line by line on an old typewriter. He can’t have been the only one doing that.

By: OM

OM — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:52:56 +0000

…Damn, that beats the hell out of LGSPOCK! Makes me feel *really* old because that wasn’t too long before I punched my first Hollerith card on an IBM 029 and stored my first program on paper punch tape on an old Burroughs “Grey Monster” TTY.

By: robcat2075

robcat2075 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:12:49 +0000

That is surprisingly good.

If that had been seen in the west there would have been international panic over the “computer cat gap”.

By: x

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:23:09 +0000

Ah, the thrill of using an absurdly expensive piece of equipment (30 units built!) for printing out a walking cat… Cool!