Editing Timeline of computer animation (section)

==2000s==
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!Film/television series
!Year
!Notes
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| ''[[Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within]]''
| rowspan="4" align="center" |2001
|First CGI feature-length digital film to be made based on [[photorealism]] and [[live-action]] principles. The first theatrically released feature film to utilize motion capture for all of its characters actions.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,997597,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051121073232/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,997597,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 21, 2005 | magazine=Time | title=Cinema: A Painstaking Fantasy | date=2000-07-31}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (film)|Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius]]''
|First CGI feature-length movie made using [[Commercial off-the-shelf|off-the-shelf]] hardware and software.
|-
|''[[Shrek]]''
|First CGI-animated movie to win an Academy Award for the Best Animated Feature Film. Added to the United States National Film Registry in 2020.
|-
|''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
|First use of [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] for digital actors (using the [[Massive (software)|Massive]] software developed by [[Weta Digital]]).
|-
|''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]''
| rowspan="3" align="center" |2002
|First virtual actor to win an award ([[Critics' Choice Movie Awards]] by [[Andy Serkis]] playing [[Gollum]]), in the newly created category ''Best Digital Acting Performance''
|-
|''[[Spider-Man (2002 film)|Spider-Man]]''
|First digitally rendered photorealistic costume.
|-
|''[[Ice Age (2002 film)|Ice Age]]''
|First CGI full-length feature animated film exclusively rendered with a ray tracer (CGI Studio).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.awn.com/animationworld/ray-tracers-blue-sky-studios|title=Ray Tracers: Blue Sky Studios|access-date=2016-06-30}}</ref>
|-
|''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]''
|align="center" |2003
|''The Burly Brawl'' - the first use of "universal capture", the combination of [[markerless motion capture]], per-frame [[texture mapping|texture]] capture and [[optical flow]] of [[pixel]]s over the data from [[multi-camera setup|7 camera setup]] bought into a shared UV space by projection onto a neutral expression geometry leading to the introduction of realistic [[digital look-alike]]s
|-
|''[[Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks]]''
|align="center"| 2003-2007
|First 3D rendered computer animated television show.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.awn.com/animationworld/mike-young-figures-out-how-count-cgi-sheep|title=Mike Young Figures Out How To Count CGI Sheep|access-date=April 13, 2021}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Able Edwards]]''
| rowspan="5" align="center" |2004
|First movie shot completely on a green screen using digitally scanned images as backgrounds.     
|-
|''[[:es:Olocoons_(miniserie)|Olocoons]]''
|First CGI-animated series to use Cel-shaded designs and backgrounds mixed with 2-D elements.
|-
|''[[Shrek 2]]''
|First feature film to use global illumination.<ref>{{cite web |last=Christensen |first=Per H. |date=July 2010 |title=Point-Based Global Illumination for Movie Production |url=https://graphics.pixar.com/library/PointBasedGlobalIlluminationForMovieProduction/paper.pdf |access-date=9 April 2022 |website=graphics.pixar.com}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow]]''
|First movie with all-CGI backgrounds and live-actors.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/conran.html | magazine=Wired | title=Kid Robot and the World of Tomorrow}}</ref>
|-
|''[[The Polar Express (film)|The Polar Express]]''
|First computer-animated film to be created with [[motion capture]].
|-
|''[[Chicken Little (2005 film)|Chicken Little]]''
|align="center" |2005
|First feature-length computer-animated film released in [[3D film|3D]].
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|''[[Elephants Dream]]''
|align="center" |2006
|First CGI short movie released as completely open source. Made with [[open-source software]], theatrical and DVD release under [[Creative Commons]] License.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elephantsdream.org/|title=Elephants Dream|website=www.elephantsdream.org}}</ref> Unique that all 3D models, animatics and software are included on the DVD free for any use.
|-
|''[[Flatland (2007 Ehlinger film)|Flatland]]''
|align="center" |2007
|First CGI feature film to be animated by one person. Made with [[Lightwave 3D]] and [[Adobe After Effects]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.flatlandthefilm.com/news.php?CurrentPage=15|title=Flatland director Ladd Ehlinger Jr. starts column Filmmaker's Perspective for GreenCine.com|publisher=Flatland}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Plumíferos]]''
|rowspan=3 align="center" |2009
|First CGI feature-length movie made using [[open source]]/[[free software]] for all 3-D models, animation, lighting and render process, under [[Linux]] operating system.
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|''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]''
|First full-length movie made using motion capture to create photorealistic 3-D characters and to feature a fully CG 3-D photorealistic world.  The first virtual art department and complete virtual production pipeline was developed by director [[James Cameron]] and team to create the film in real-time.
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|''[[Up (2009 film)|Up]]''
|First computer-animated feature to be nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Picture]].
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