r/vintagecgi Feb 14 '22

Discussion vintagecgi discord relaunch

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We have added channels to the discord and activity is starting to pick up.

Some notable channels:

#new-renders (for recent renders created in vintage style)

#software

#hardware

#memes

#music

Link to join: https://discord.gg/EXcKenB


r/vintagecgi 9h ago

Video I found an old VHS copy of Star Trek IV from its original 1987 home video release. When I ran it through my VHS digitizer, I was surprised to see this on it.

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Saw this in another subreddit and thought the opening TNG titles were some cool vintage Star Trek CGI!


r/vintagecgi 8h ago

Video A collection of classic Pixar commercials. (1989-1996)

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r/vintagecgi 8h ago

Video Feature Films for Families logo (1992)

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r/vintagecgi 8h ago

Video CinéGroupe Logo (1987)

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r/vintagecgi 16h ago

Discussion Is there a reason why "Reboot" (premiered September 10, 1994) is considered to be the first CGI TV show when the French series "Insektors" premiered a good half a year earlier (15 January, 1994)?

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r/vintagecgi 8h ago

Video Filmax Logo (1996)

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r/vintagecgi 8h ago

Video Filmax Logo (1990)

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r/vintagecgi 4h ago

Video Station ID: SBN Channel 21 (1996) [Philippine Television Archives, 2026]

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r/vintagecgi 1d ago

Video Harkins Theatres Feature Presentation snipe (1999) (Animated at Rhonda Graphics)

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r/vintagecgi 3d ago

Video Weird Al Yankovic - Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies (1989), made for the film UHF.

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r/vintagecgi 3d ago

Video [partially lost] Could anyone help me find a HP Demo video from late 2005

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Hi this is my first time posting here but I’m on behalf of the Animusic community. I’m trying to find a partially lost HP demo video of Animusic 2’s Cathedral Pictures in HD. The video was made for HP projectors:

HP Digital Projector mp3100 Series (mp3130, mp3130w)

HP Digital Projector vp6100 Series (vp6110, vp6120)

HP Digital Projector sb2100 Series

HP Digital Projector ep7100 Series (ep7110, ep7120)

Key differences between the standard Animusic HD Cathedral Pictures and the one commissioned by HP is the drum heads in the animation feature the HP logo instead of Viktor Hartmann's The Great Gate of Kiev artwork and the video was an early, work-in-progress version of what later became the official track Cathedral Pictures on the Animusic 2 DVD (released in late 2005).

Good luck trying to find it. Die hard fans of Animusic still haven’t found it after 21 years. Let’s see if you’re different.


r/vintagecgi 3d ago

Video Wehrenberg Theatres Feature Presentation snipe (1995)

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I don’t know who animated this snipe, it’s probably Cinema Concepts or maybe some motion graphics company since it has the early CGI animation or something.

Let me know in the comments if you know who animated this snipe.


r/vintagecgi 6d ago

Video IBM gif I found on my I-series 1412 (1998/1999)

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r/vintagecgi 6d ago

Video Barbie in The Nutcracker - The Mouse King's anger (Dir, Owen Hurley) October 2, 2001

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r/vintagecgi 6d ago

Discussion Are there any noteworthy examples of raycasting that is not from video games liked Wolfenstein 3D?

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I find raycasting to be a very interesting and now long deprecated form of 3D rendering. While it's almost entirely synonymous with a number of early 90s FPS, the technique is perfectly capable of rendering 3D models, as seen in its Wikipedia entry. Are there any images or videos that showcase how this technique looked? Or did pretty much all media use rasterizing, raytracing, or other traditional techniques?


r/vintagecgi 8d ago

Image Microsoft OS/2 v1.3 Retail Box (1990)

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OS/2 v1.3 was released in 1990 but I feel that the logo rendered here looks quite modern! I wonder how many renderers at that time were capable of producing the soft shadows? The box would’ve looked great at its release.


r/vintagecgi 8d ago

Video SynthaVision (one of the first computer animation & rendering software) - 1968

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Later in early 1980's MAGI used it to create the famous Tron movie 3D scenes.


r/vintagecgi 9d ago

Video The Pier (2004)

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r/vintagecgi 9d ago

Video Bsss (1999)

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r/vintagecgi 9d ago

Video The Production I.G. logo, one of the logos shown before End of Evangelion (1997)

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r/vintagecgi 10d ago

Video Yokomites eating up the screen...💀(YTV Cartoons, 2001)🐛

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I remember in 2001, when watching cartoons on YTV (a Canadian entertainment broadcasting channel) there used to be these little glowing green CGI bugs that would randomly appear on the screen during the show that you were currently watching.

A lot of kids were freaked out by it, but I personally didn't mind them, as I liked bugs as a kid.

Saw this reel and just had to share

Source: horror4kids Instagram page


r/vintagecgi 10d ago

Video Sony Theatres Surround Sound Stereo Snipe (1994) (FOUND)

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r/vintagecgi 11d ago

Image Evangelion 3D Data Collection - e frontier (2000)

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r/vintagecgi 11d ago

Video Listerine commercial animated by Pixar (1992)

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