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A fun thing about those 80s wire-frame graphics: many of them weren’t CGI at all. The desire for the “computer 3D” look was such that quite a few film-makers fa
by moomin 4y ago
A fun thing about those 80s wire-frame graphics: many of them weren’t CGI at all. The desire for the “computer 3D” look was such that quite a few film-makers faked it up using actual 3D models painted to look like wireframe.
- dazzawazza 4y agoThe CG from Escape From New York was done in a similar way. https://beforesandafters.com/2021/07/12/escape-from-new-york-at-40-how-those-cg-glider-graphics-were-actually-achieved-with-physical-models/ https://beforesandafters.com/2021/07/12/escape-from-new-york...
- tootie 4y agoA lot of visuals were just hand-animated. Especially the fluorescent highlights over the human actors. Just drawn on top of the film. Only a handful of sequences were fully digital, but it was still mind-blowing for 1982.