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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

the opening to beauty and the beast remains my favourite piece of animation ever <3

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Beauty and the Beast features computer animation, by the way. I think it's only in the ballroom scene though.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

thanks! i'm not an expert so i wasn't sure (i know they did switch sometime in the 90s but i thought 91 would have been too early for computer/cgi)

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If you rewatch the ballroom scene it's pretty obvious. It's like partially 3d. But it's subtle enough to not stick out.

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[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

Wasn't the first use of CG in a major Disney animated film the carpet in Aladdin? No necessarily the whole movie, but certain scenes at least.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

yeah i remember the carpet scene in the cave of wonders with the lava being particularly cgi (i mean as a kid it looked awesome but still)

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Uh, sure, why not! Seems believable enough to me.

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[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Wikipedia has a pretty good list of big "firsts" for cgi.

It notes that Disney first used cgi for the clock tower in The Great Mouse Detective. However it seems like it may have been cgi generated frames that were then hand animated over.

As for Aladdin, maybe first to have cgi character? As Beauty and the Beast came out 1 year earlier and definitely had cgi effects in the ballroom scene.

Note: no idea how accurate the whole list is, but that one checks out.

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