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rndmnmbr posted:
Your statement is bad and wrong.  B5 CGI was really impressive for its time, and the show is still watchable without too much cringing.
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Aug 27, 2015 16:12
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As an impartial observer with no opinions about Babylon 5, that fan-made clip is not too much worse than the real deal.
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Aug 27, 2015 18:04
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Double Bill posted:Your statement is bad and wrong. My feelings at the time were that CGI was a bold move, and a taste of things to come, but wasn't quite there yet. The models on Star Trek TNG and DS9 looked far better. It wasn't exactly state of the art for the time either. Their set up was pretty ghetto: http://www.geek.com/games/cgi-first-introduced-to-tv-in-babylon-5-by-mit-presentor-771051/ quote:Each episode of the series used an average of 6,000 frames of computer graphic animation from Foundation Imaging. They used 24 Amiga 2000s, 16 of which were dedicated rendering engines. They had 32 megabytes of RAM, a Fusion-40 accelerator and the Toaster. The Amigas were connected via a Novell network and sent data to a 12 gigabyte 486 PC file server. 'The Toaster' is an Amiga editing suite.
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Aug 27, 2015 19:45
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EvilGenius posted:'The Toaster' is an Amiga editing suite. It would have added more mystique if you just left it as "the Toaster". I like the idea of Foundation's set up being so wonky that a toaster was included in there- as a circuit bridge? to improve the modeler's efficiency by letting them have a pop-tart every so often? who knows?
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Aug 27, 2015 20:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QqLp8FnXUo
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Aug 28, 2015 01:38
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The Lawnmower Man was a flagship example for this thread but the cg sex scene especially (I set it for that scene but I recommend watching the whole video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33u7P-XokE&t=234s
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Sep 13, 2015 12:59
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I remember watching Gamesmaster as a kid. Why exactly a prominent astronomer was the host of a kids crappy CGI tv show about video games is anyone's guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCuPX_tmOOo
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I imagine doing TV shows for kids is really fun
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