early cgi

Early Computer Graphics (primarily silicon dreams aesthetic) 1970s - mid-1990s

[duplexide]

HQ scans from the 2009 Japan exclusive Animusic 2 calendar

(source)

[aesthetic-otd]

Today's aesthetic is silicon dreams

[swarmik]

There is a nice collection of photos covering the history of computing in the Science and Technology Facilities Council. People often share some of them, but usually without providing the source. The link below allows you to go through all the galleries (with the oldest from 1961).

Source: Chilton Computing web site

[sgihardware]

Silicon Graphics computers in 1997

Low-end workstation: SGI O2 (1-CPU system with integrated 3D graphics and hardware support for texturing; UMA architecture)

Hi-end workstation: SGI Octane (1 or 2 CPUs, Impact 3D graphics cards with geometry acceleration and optional texture support)

Graphics supercomputer (deskside / rackmount): SGI Onyx2 (up to 4 CPUs per box, up to 24 CPUs per system; scalable InfiniteReality 3D graphics)

[weevilwizardpuppymancer]

thinking about this gif again

[synthadreams]

"The Making of Moxy" - a Demonstration of the process of creating The Moxy Show, Cartoon Network's first ever original, starring Moxy and Flea, a Dog and... Flea... animated with Motion Capture using early Silicon Graphics computers.

[duplexide]

Production images from the Animusic website

[wynns-wonderful-pixel-paradise]

You'll see more from this CD spat out of my queue later, but this weird shit is exactly why I like looking through old clip art CDs, even if I would argue this one is more photos than clip art. I've posted a few things that happen to be on here before but there's definitely some new stuff! these are from Night Owl's Graphics.

[duplexide]

Promotional images from the Animusic website 

[geocitiesephemera]

Eyewitness Series II by DK Vision (1996)

[fuzzyghost]

[synthadreams]

Early Development Renders of the W140 Mercedes-Benz S-Class (1980s/Early 1990s)

[blahajvhs]

State of the Art of Computer Animation - Pacific Arts 1988

[dosbox]

[wynns-wonderful-pixel-paradise]

Oh man I'm just exploring some clip art cds from Internet Archive, found a real gem this time. Its 3DColorClipArt, it has a bunch of weird old early 3d art I thought I would share! There also seems to be some 3d model programs on here but I would have to try a VM to get them to work I think