#early computer animation

[therobotmonster]

I'm bringing Hexy back.

Good visual reference on Hexadecimal (And Reboot in general) is shockingly hard to find, so when I found a guy who had done 4k upscales of the series on YT, it was time for some screencaps.

It's a pity the first(ish?) truly all-CG cartoon was probably not preserved in a state that would let it be re-rendered at higher resolution. What was at the time a massive technological undertaking could be rendered real-time on a mid-tier computer now.

Her whole mask-swapping gimmick was, itself, a way of turning tech limitations into an interesting feature. Save time on facial animation and lip synch while making her more memorable.

Every action cartoon series needs a villainous femme fatale, and Hex dispenses with most of the subtlety. She's a dominatrix-witch with a, uh, sprite-tight red leather bodysuit and latex or possibly black painted metal gloves and thigh-boots.

None of us should have been surprised by Blackarachnia is all I'm saying.

And like any good villainess, she's got a full on murder-mode.

And this is going to take more than one post.

Hexadecimal, from Reboot (1994, season 1, Mainframe Entertainment)

[l-ultimo-squalo]

Beyond the Mind's Eye (1992) dir. Michael Boydstun.

A compilation of computer animations set to music.

[mossandfog]

Pixar's Distant Grandfather

We take sophisticated, high-end computer animation for granted these days. Even smaller movie studios are putting out stunning, high-definition 3D animation. It wasn’t always like this. A mini clip from 2023’s Elemental, showing the amazing CG graphics of the 2020s. Obviously, modern computer animation had to start somewhere. That somewhere includes a number of primitive and simplistic animated…

[youre-dreaming-302]

[garbagedisp0sal]

[computerdaydreams]

Girl At Computer

[cherrie01]

[d7gitalgrl]

x

[sayasflesh]

[animalcrossworld]

Do you remember this wallpaper? link

[youre-dreaming-302]

[alstroemerian-dragon]

chiaki is such a good and interesting character. wish she was in a better game

[pancake-moth]

After like an hour, I finally got Mayura on my PC (Along with her speaking English!)

If anyone is interested, I can share how I did it

[maplebiscuit]

Tamagotchi Screensaver

I remembered having this Tamagotchi screensaver when I was a child and went through the effort of searching for it and locating it on the Internet Archive, it definitely paid off, it's really goofy and cute.

There's also this desktop wallpaper I found:

(Look, Bagatchi's there!!)

God, I really miss this era of Tamagotchi media, it was really charming and cool <3

[rubixctv]

🌸🕉️💖

[cherrie01]