Film and Television Articles

This section contains links to Reports, Articles, Essay's and Speeches designed to help Filmmakers become more informed about the creative and technical aspects of Film and TV Production.

A Brief, Early History of Computer Graphics in Film

The first feature film to use digital image processing was Westworld, in 1973--the same year as the first SIGGRAPH conference. John Whitney Jr. and Gary Demos at Information International Inc. (III; aka "Triple I") provided digitally processed, pixellated versions of motion photography to portray an android point of view. The same group used digital compositing to materialize characters over a background in the 1976 sequel, Futureworld. These efforts were recognized with a Scientific & Engineering Academy Award in 1994.(http://www.beanblossom.in.us)