Check Out The Very First 3D Computer Animation

February 1, 2015, 02:03 PM

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Today gamers may get upset when the latest AAA title stutters a bit while churning out detail-rich 3D environments at 60 frames per second, but it’s easy to forget that the genesis of any kind of 3D animation at all is still within living memory. In 1972 Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull and his grad school colleague Fred Parke created a short film called A Computer Animated Hand, which is considered by many to be the first example of 3D digital rendering.