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Centuries later, printing was still done mechanically. Great newspaper pressess could churn out thousands of copies bearing text and photographic images, and by the mid nineteenth century they were able to do so in color. Before any book or newspaper could be printed, however, the production and layout still needed to be done by hand.
Then came about the computer. A novelty at first, computers were created as counting and calculators for scientists and mathematicians. Soon simple displays were invented for displaying text and later graphics.
Believe it or not, work on the world's first computer animated movie began way back in 1979 at the New York Institute of Technology by the Computer Graphics Lab.
The movie titled 'The Works' was based on a story written by Lance Williams and was intended to be 90 minutes long.
In 1986 the project was scrapped as the computing power at the time just did not cut it and after spending millions of dollars, only a few minutes of the film was actually created.
CGI was first used in movies in the 1973's Westworld a science-fiction film about society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, futerworld, which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then Universtity of Utah graduated students. The third movie to use this technology was Star Wars in 1997 for the scenes with the wireframe Death Star plans and the targeting computers in the X-wings and the Millennium Falcon. The Black Hole used Raster wire-frame model rendering to depict a black hole. The science fiction- horror film Alin of that same year also used a raster wire-frame model, in this case to render the image of navigation monitors in the sequence where a spaceship follows a beacon to a land on an unfamillar planet.
It would be another 10 years after 'The Works' was cancelled before another computer animated movie was produced, this time by Pixar Animation Studios, and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution.
At the cost of $30 million, on November 22, 1995, Toy Story, the world's first completed animated movie was released.