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#AFTER EFFECTS ADD IMAGE TO PARTICLE PLAYGROUND SERIES#

The 3D animated movies that followed in the late 1990s – like Toy Story series and Antz– were stylized, cartoonish films limited even by the era’s best computing power, lighting models, and geometric modeling and animation packages. This juxtaposition of computer-generated and real-world imagery gave audiences the illusion of realism because the computer-generated images were on screen along with real footage. They were supplemented with physical models and animatronics. When he made Jurassic Park, therefore, director Steven Spielberg approached computer-generated sequences with caution.īy some counts, computer-generated dinosaurs were on screen for only six minutes of the two-hour movie.

#AFTER EFFECTS ADD IMAGE TO PARTICLE PLAYGROUND MOVIE#

For decades, filmmakers had relied on physical models, stop motion and practical special effects, many of them provided by ILM, which was founded to create the effects in the original Star Wars trilogy and, notably, provided effects for the Indiana Jones movie series. In 1993, the film industry didn’t really trust computer graphics. I have been researching computer animation for nearly two decades and witnessed the transition from practical to virtual effects it didn’t happen overnight.

Today, nearly every film contains computer-generated imagery: Explosions, tsunamis and even the wholesale destruction of cities are simulated, virtual characters replace human actors and detailed 3D models and green-screen backgrounds have replaced traditional sets. Since then, computer graphics researchers have been working to constantly improve the realism of visual effects and have achieved great success, scholarly, commercial and artistic.

Even back then, upon seeing the initial digital test shots, George Lucas was stunned: He’s often quoted as saying “ it was like one of those moments in history, like the invention of the light bulb or the first telephone call … A major gap had been crossed and things were never going to be the same.” Yet Jurassic Park stands out historically because it was the first time computer-generated graphics, and even characters, shared the screen with human actors, drawing the audience into the illusion that the dinosaurs’ world was real.