Monday 12 September 2011

Earliest ever 3d film uncovered?

Robby Ingebretsen from over at Nerds Plus Art blogged a fascinating piece back in February about possibly the first 3D rendered film to have ever been made.
The animations were made in 1972, and the rendering was done directly to film. The main man behind the work was Edwin Catmull, founder of Pixar

Roberts father, Robert Snr, had kept an original film copy of the animation, which Robert has recently discovered, digitised, and brought to the attention of Pixar and Edwin Catmull.

The quality of the animation is surprisingly good, going beyond simple wireframe graphics and into filled and shaded techniques - even 3d morphing in the opening credits - the mathematics of all for which the team pioneered and developed as the film was made.

The original video, plus behind the scenes work can be seen on Robby's blog entry.

ST Offline Tournament Rnd 17 - Ork

This round of the ST Offline Tournament features Ork, by Psygnosis (1992) and will be played at the next meeting!
Score submissions and round discussion to be found over at Atari-forum.com if you want to play along from home.

I must be frank (with a lower case 'f') and confess I haven't yet figured out how to get a working copy of the game! The Atarimania download (like all Atarimania downloads) is of an original, uncracked image of the disk. Therefore, you need the game manual to answer the copy-protection questions!
The D-Bug version does not appear to work! I've tried it in Steem and Hatari, with Tos 1.02, Tos 2.06, and EmuTOS!

Oh well, here's a screeshot! (from the Amiga version)