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#93970. --simone--
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Which animated film was the first to use computers in its production?
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neelie_447
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Arguably the first movie ever to use computers to create a visual effect (a 2D rotating structure on one level of the underground lab) was The Andromeda Strain, in 1971.
The short film “The Hunger” (1974) from the National Film Board Of Canada is notable as the first computer animation to be nominated for an Academy Award (as best short film). The 2 dimensional 11 minute feature about world hunger was the first to use computers to “fill in” the action between key cels drawn by a human artist. Because a computer actually “created” the animation depicted in the images, this is the world’s first example of "true" computer animation.
 http://www.your3dsource.com/earliest-computer-animation.html
Mar 26 08, 7:42 PM
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--simone-- 
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Thanks guys. The answer I got was 'Tubby the Tuba'. I based the question on this extract, from wikipedia:
"Progress on the new Tubby was very slow at first, hindered by the tedious frame-by-frame process occasionally encountered in the hand-drawn art. In response, Schure turned to an interest in the then-young field of computer graphics, and recruited several consultants and scientists from NYIT so that the project could go on. Two of the later crew members were Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith, the future founders of Pixar Studios.
Thus, it marked the first time that computers were ever used in the making of an animated feature. But when the film wrapped up production, the first test screenings did not do as well as the crew had hoped it would. As a result, Catmull removed Sam Singer's name from the final prints, taking a credit in Singer's place. He later went on to say about the initial reaction to Tubby:
“ It was awful, it was terrible, half the audience fell asleep at the screening. We walked out of the room thinking 'Thank God we didn't have anything to do with it, that computers were not used for anything in that movie!'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubby_the_Tuba_%281975_film%29
Mar 26 08, 7:49 PM
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