9781422277379

Tech 2.0

Story in 1995. As the world’s first full-length computer-animated movie, it created a new genre of film overnight and set the tone for the next two decades of Pixar’s rise. The Origin Story P ixar traces its origins to the Computer Graphics Lab (CGL), a small research laboratory founded at the New York Institute of Technology in 1974. One of CGL’s goals was to produce feature-length computer-animated films. It would take several years for these films to become a reality, but the team at CGL developed many of the basic technologies that wouldmake thempossible. These included a graph- ics application known as alpha compositing, which helps animators

Computer graphics in a Star Trek movie helped kickstart Pixar creations.

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