The impressive thing is they did all those visuals without a gui. They had to calculate and hand code every element and wouldn’t know if it worked until the film was developed.
Edit: they also weren’t eligible for best visial effects because they “cheated” by using computers.
I watched it at least 200 times when I was a little kid. Maybe I’m a bit autistic, maybe I’m a nerdgirl (probably both) but it was, and still is, one of my faves.
In it’s time, the special effects were mind blowing. We little boys were like, “OMG! Light cycles!”
I feel like even today, the CGI is super impressive for 1982 (?).
given that the metaphorical inside of a computer is usually imagined to look… well, computer-y, i think 1980’s CG is spot on.
i remember mom telling me as a kid (~2004) “now don’t judge the CG too harshly, it’s very old” and i was like “are you kidding? this looks AWESOME!”
The impressive thing is they did all those visuals without a gui. They had to calculate and hand code every element and wouldn’t know if it worked until the film was developed.
Edit: they also weren’t eligible for best visial effects because they “cheated” by using computers.
I didn’t know they were disqualified from best effects. That’s truly tragic 😑
It’s actually pretty cool that your mom got you into it!
my mom is so cool 🥹 she saw it in theaters in college and made sure to get in on VHS from the library for us as kids
AFAIK quite a bunch of it isn’t even CGI. Lots of creative lighting tricks and just very well done classic animation.
I watched it at least 200 times when I was a little kid. Maybe I’m a bit autistic, maybe I’m a nerdgirl (probably both) but it was, and still is, one of my faves.