Movies: Computer animation

  • 1992
    How to Make a Decision

    How to Make a Decision (1992)

    How to Make a Decision

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    The animated short shows how fate can determine the decision making process, even at the highest levels, where one would expect responsibility and careful reasoning. It does so by lightheartedly exposing the supposed argumentation as nothing more tha...

    How to Make a Decision
  • 1969
    Knotte Grosse Loops

    Knotte Grosse Loops (1969)

    Knotte Grosse Loops

    01969HD

    These are work-in-progress elements of some commercial projects and a film to be titled, Knotte Grosse. Beckett received an AFI Independent Filmmakers grant to produce Knotte Grosse but it was unfinished at the time of his death. The images allude to...

    Knotte Grosse Loops
  • 1979
    Blobby Man

    Blobby Man (1979)

    Blobby Man

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    3D animation test of a blob turning into a humanoid figure, performing ballet, and back to a blob again before zooming off into the distance....

    Blobby Man
  • 1967
    The Art of Fugue

    The Art of Fugue (1967)

    The Art of Fugue

    01967HD

    Japan's first computer generated animation...

    The Art of Fugue
  • 1993
    Virtual Nature

    Virtual Nature (1993)

    Virtual Nature

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    A Computer Generated Visual Odyssey From the Makers of the Mind's Eye...

    Virtual Nature
  • 2005
    Cubic Tragedy

    Cubic Tragedy (2005)

    Cubic Tragedy

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    A polygonal girl tried to make herself prettier by using her new cosmetic tools, and by doing so accidentally ruined her own face....

    Cubic Tragedy
  • 1978
    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations) (1978)

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)

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    Sixteen 'objects', each consisting of one hundred points of light, perform a series of precisely choreographed rhythmic transformations. Accompanied by the sound of a Shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute), the film is an exercise in the visual perce...

    3/78 (Objects and Transformations)
  • 1979
    Digital TV Dinner

    Digital TV Dinner (1979)

    Digital TV Dinner

    01979HD

    Digital TV Dinner is a video art clip from 1979 created using the Bally Astrocade console game to generate unusual patterns. The Bally Astrocade was unique among cartridge games in that it was designed to allow users to change game cartridges with po...

    Digital TV Dinner
  • 1990
    Not Knot

    Not Knot (1990)

    Not Knot

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    Not Knot is a guided tour into computer-animated hyperbolic space. It proceeds from the world of knots to their complementary spaces -- what's not a knot. Profound theorems of recent mathematics show that most known complements carry the structure of...

    Not Knot
  • 2003
    Yo lo vi

    Yo lo vi (2003)

    Yo lo vi

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    A journey through time, through the magical worlds of the paintings, engravings and frescoes of the painter Francisco de Goya. Variations on sketches and paintings that, animated, narrate passages of the painter's life and work....

    Yo lo vi
  • 1995
    A Warm Day Comes After A Cold Winter

    A Warm Day Comes After A Cold Winter (1995)

    A Warm Day Comes After A Cold Winter

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    Walter Ungerer's A Warm Day Comes After A Cold Winter is among a series of experimental films the filmmaker created in the 90s that utilize computer animation and assorted "lo-fi" video artifacts....

    A Warm Day Comes After A Cold Winter
  • 1997
    Turbulence

    Turbulence (1997)

    Turbulence

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    Venture across the threshold of perception--and into a stunning, cyber-generated "museum of unnatural history." From award-winning computer animation visionary Jon McCormack, "Turbulence" plunges your senses into a hallucinatory alternate dimension o...

    Turbulence
  • 1968
    Experiments in Motion Graphics

    Experiments in Motion Graphics (1968)

    Experiments in Motion Graphics

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    John H. Whitney Sr. explains the graphic art potential of the computer and the methods and philosophy involved in his computer filmmaking. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012....

    Experiments in Motion Graphics
  • 1979
    Two Space

    Two Space (1979)

    Two Space

    01979HD

    Two Space systematically explores symmetries used by Islamic artists to create abstract temple decorations. The two dimensional patterns, like the tile patterns of Islamic temples, are generated by performing a set of symmetry operations (translatio...

    Two Space