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CGI from the 70's-00's: lost computer graphics that have washed upon the digital shore.

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Computer graphics / CGI from the 70's - early 00's: raytracing, stills, demo reels, cutscenes, commercials, and music videos.

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Thunderdome XI Commercial (EPILEPSY WARNING) (1995)

1 Comment
2025/02/03
03:13 UTC

9

Did trail particle effects exist in early CGI?

I'm working on a retro CGI game, and I decided to add a simple glowing trail effect to one of the player's gadgets, it looks cool, but I want to know if it's accurate to it's inspiration or not.

So if you guys can tell me if I strayed too far from the source or not, if not, I'd really appreciate it if you can link some examples of animations or some such.

My game is largely inspired by the aesthetics of late 80's/early-to-mid90's but if it's a bit outside that time period I don't mind.

Thank you.

5 Comments
2025/02/03
02:56 UTC

684

Welcome to the Parade - Grimfandango [PC game - 1998]

17 Comments
2025/02/01
05:58 UTC

29

Scotch DVD Maintenance Kit (2001)

0 Comments
2025/01/31
22:49 UTC

550

Safety Patrol (1998). I watched it as a kid and even for 1998, the CGI was bad. Weird Al is in the movie for some reason.

16 Comments
2025/01/31
18:06 UTC

87

Theme Park (1994) intro

4 Comments
2025/01/30
02:22 UTC

248

Heavenly Music Corporation - Lunar Phase (album, 1995)

5 Comments
2025/01/29
00:37 UTC

55

Music album: ECK - Themes and Variations (2008), made by Terry Devine-King.

1 Comment
2025/01/28
06:56 UTC

2,423

The Langoliers (1995)

77 Comments
2025/01/28
01:06 UTC

13

Can someone point to me which 90s software has that depth of field blur that can be seen in the first few minutes of this video ?

2 Comments
2025/01/27
20:39 UTC

507

Old 1997 Ray Tracing

Hi-Tech: Point of No Return? Almost 30 years Ago I was asking myself a question that nowadays is.... trending

4 Comments
2025/01/27
19:44 UTC

35

FIFA 2000 intro - they were so proud of their graphics 😊

0 Comments
2025/01/27
18:28 UTC

10

I'm looking for an old CG artwork (circa 2005-2009)

0 Comments
2025/01/26
14:21 UTC

390

Ravers World - Paradise of Rave (1995)

7 Comments
2025/01/26
08:42 UTC

2,109

Myst (1993)

30 Comments
2025/01/25
23:05 UTC

77

Soul Blade/Edge Playstation Intro (1996)

2 Comments
2025/01/23
22:05 UTC

636

Donkey Kong Country promo render (1994)

Loo

4 Comments
2025/01/23
19:40 UTC

24

Electric Image demo reel 1996

2 Comments
2025/01/22
18:12 UTC

47

Urban Chaos PC (1999)

Still think this intro is amazing 26 years later

4 Comments
2025/01/21
17:09 UTC

20

1995 Raid Unscented computer animation TV commercial

Exactly what the title says.

0 Comments
2025/01/21
01:26 UTC

3

How where these 90's early 2000's anime styled 3D cgi animation's made?

2 Comments
2025/01/20
03:05 UTC

30

Firo & Klawd (obscure PS1 Game, 1996)

3 Comments
2025/01/19
21:18 UTC

44

Intro credits for Labyrinth (1986)

1 Comment
2025/01/19
17:27 UTC

25

BUF (again. feat Softimage) - The City of Lost Children (1995)

5 Comments
2025/01/19
07:37 UTC

45

BUF Compagnie - Fight Club Making of (1999)

12 Comments
2025/01/18
18:28 UTC

1,646

25 years ago, I launched this website (2000)

It was the happy days of desktop customisation. Wallpapers, mp3 player skins, explorer extensions like Nextstep, Litestep etc and just a lot of hanging out on IRC, messaging on ICQ and posting your latest artsy stuff on skinz.org, customize.org and that little newcomer, deviantart (which we didn’t believe in, they let everyone post art with no moderation - wtf?).

Good times. :D

70 Comments
2025/01/16
01:26 UTC

239

SPAWN (1997) : VFX Breakdown Reel

23 Comments
2025/01/15
19:18 UTC

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