Editing Timeline of computer animation (section)

== 1970s ==
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!Film
!Year
!Notes
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| ''Metadata''
|rowspan=4 align="center" |1971
|This is an experimental 2-D animated short drawn on a data tablet by [[Peter Foldes]], who used the world's first key-frame animation software, invented by Nestor Burtnyk and Marceli Wein.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=10954 |title=Metadata - NFB - Film Collection - National Film Board of Canada |website=www.nfb.ca |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321065011/http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=10954 |archive-date=2009-03-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/aboutUs/nrc90/achievements/animation_e.html |title = Home - National Research Council Canada|date = April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/tree/nfbc.html |title=National Research Council of Canada |access-date=2008-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402221929/http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/tree/nfbc.html |archive-date=2012-04-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/reports/p021.htm|title=USA Visit 1971|website=www.chilton-computing.org.uk}}</ref>
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| ''[[The Andromeda Strain (film)|The Andromeda Strain]]''
|First use of digital rendering within a [[feature film]]. A diagram of the underground laboratory was created using 2-D planes and a complex wireframe cylindrical core.<ref name="filmsite9">{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/visualeffects9.html |title=Greatest Visual and Special Effects (F/X) - Milestones in Film, 1970-1974 | last = Dirks | first = Tim |website= Filmsite.org | publisher = Filmsite}}</ref>
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| ''[[Out of the Unknown]]''
|Produced by Charles McGhie, some early [[computer-generated imagery]] techniques were combined with [[stop-motion]] and real-time [[visual effects]] to create the opening title sequence for the show's fourth and final series.
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| ''[[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]''
|First use of [[Scanimate]] in a feature film. The analog computer animation system was used to create sing-along segments for the Oompa Loompa song after Augustus Gloop and Veruca Salt get their comeuppance for their respective vices.<ref>[https://extendedstudies.ucsd.edu/news-and-events/division-of-extended-studies-blog/september-2012/getting-personal-with-animation-instructor-eric-van-hamersveld Getting personal with animation instructor Eric Van Hamersveld | Continuing Education | UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies]</ref> Added to the United States National Film Registry in 2014.
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| ''[[A Computer Animated Hand]]''
|1972
|Produced by [[Ed Catmull]], the short demonstrates a computer-animated hand, as well as human faces. Added to the United States [[National Film Registry]] in 2011.
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|''[[Westworld (film)|Westworld]]''
|1973
|First use of digital 2-D computer animation in a significant entertainment feature film. The point of view of [[Yul Brynner]]'s gunslinger was achieved with [[raster graphics]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2004-09-14-sky-captain-cgi_x.htm | work=USA Today | title='Sky Captain' takes CGI to limit | first1=Scott | last1=Bowles | date=15 September 2004 | access-date=25 May 2010}}</ref><ref name="filmsite9"/>
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|''Faces (Faces & Body Parts)''
|align="center" |1974
|[[Fred Parke]]'s thesis film on facial modeling at the [[University of Utah]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a16205/these-early-computer-animations-show-how-far-weve-come/ |title=These Early Computer Animations Show How Far We've Come |last1=Wenz |first1=John |date=Jun 25, 2015 |website=popularmechanics.com |access-date=March 19, 2016 }}</ref>
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|''[[UFO: Target Earth]]''
|1974
|An alien in the movie was created with CGI.<ref>[https://cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/12295-REMEMBERING-FILM-DIRECTOR-ALESSANDRO-MICHAEL-DE-GAETANO.html Remembering Film Director Alessandro Michael de Gaetano]</ref>
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|''[[Great (1975 film)|Great]]''
|1975
|The [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]-winning 1975 short animated film about the life of the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] engineer [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] contains a brief sequence of a rotating [[Wire-frame model|wire-frame]] model of Brunel's final project, the iron steamship ''[[SS Great Eastern]]''.
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|''[[Logan's Run (film)|Logan's Run]]''
|rowspan=3 align="center" |1976
|Used Scanimate to create the forcefield in the Carousel sequence.
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|''[[Futureworld]]''
|First use of digital [[3D computer graphics|3-D computer graphics]] for animated hand and face. Used 2-D digital compositing to materialize characters over a background.<ref name="filmsite9"/>
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|''Hobart Street Scene''
|First use of a 3-D [[hidden-line removal]] movie depicting an architectural street scene.<ref>“Understanding BIM: The Past, Present and Future” Routledge 2020 Ingram Page 260</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=|first1= |title=The first architectural movie of a real street scene from 1976 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvI31PLC4-0  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/yvI31PLC4-0 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|accessdate=6 April 2021 |work=youtube.com |date=}}{{cbignore}}</ref> It shows the planned Crown Courts in [[Hobart]] in 1976 and was used for planning approval. The buildings exist today.
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|''[[Demon Seed]]''
|rowspan=2 align="center" |1977
|Used raster [[wire-frame model]] rendering for the Proteus IV's monitors.
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|''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]''
|Used an animated 3-D [[Wire-frame model|wire-frame]] graphic for the trench run briefing sequence on [[Yavin|Yavin 4]]. Added to the United States National Film Registry in 1989.
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|''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]''
|rowspan=2 align="center" |1979
|Used raster [[wire-frame model]] rendering for navigation monitors in the landing sequence.<ref name="filmsite9"/> Added to the United States National Film Registry in 2002.
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|''[[The Black Hole (1979 film)|The Black Hole]]''
|Used raster [[wire-frame model]] rendering for the opening credits depicting a 3-D wire-frame of a black hole.<ref name=filmsite10>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/visualeffects10.html  |title=Greatest Visual and Special Effects (F/X) - Milestones in Film, 1975-1979 | last = Dirks | first = Tim |website= Filmsite.org | publisher = Filmsite}}</ref>
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