


Live action films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Tron both came out in 1982 and used digital animation. However, in 1973, the film Westworld became the first feature film to use digital animation.įrom then onwards, the use of computer animation in films and TV series became more prevalent - especially in the 1980s. A lot of these were short, experimental breakthroughs. In the 1960s a range of early computer animations were developed, including Catalogue in 1961, which is widely viewed as the first computer animated short film.Ĭomputer Ballet in 1965 became the first human figure computer animation, while The Stick Man in 1967 was the first motion capture animation. The history of computer animation overlaps with that of CGI, tracing back to the spiralling staircases in the film Vertigo from 1958.
