Movie - The Path To Innovation

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Since motion pictures and film-making industries begun, we have seen so much ground breaking technologies evolving everytime new movies opens in cinemas. Since most of us a movie lover and perhaps their technologies too, here's some well known movies, that made all of us in awe, both the stories, and the technologies that made these movies in our heart, forever...

The Thief of Baghdad (1940) - The First Use of Chroma Key (aka bluescreen/greenscreen)

Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) & The Black Hole (1979) -
The First To Use Animated 3D Graphics (early version of CGI)

Tron (1982) - Extensive Use of 3D CGI

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) - The Genesis Effect (first 'real' CGI)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) - Realistic CGI/Human interaction

Jurassic Park (1993) - Photorealistic CGI Integrated With Animatronics

Toy Story (1995) - First Feature Film To Use Only Computer-Generated Imagery

The Matrix (1999) - Bullet Time (the famous slow-mo technique)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) - Photorealism and Live Action Principals In An All Digital Feature Film

Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) - Artificial Intelligence For Digital Characters and Photorealistic Motion Capture

The Polar Express (2004) - First Feature Film With All Motion Capture Characters

Immortel (ad vitam), Casshern, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and Sin City (2004-2005) - Use of The Digital Backlot (advance bluescreen/greenscreen technique)

Avatar (2009) -
Photorealistic Motion Capture Using Virtual Camera System, and Facial Expression Cap Cameras (wow!)

Taken from How "Avatar" Happened