It's hilarious to see this after 30 years. I'm the guy in the green blazer 16:56 in the video demoing the Rockwell TripMaster. Straight out of college and using $200K Alias software. Powerful stuff for the day, but now fully eclipsed by your average smartphone. The group was very friendly, but I was pretty intimidated interacting with industry leaders that I'd only read about.
I would be proud to have lived this time in the industry. I am a no body with a android cellphone with windows 10 trying to figure out how to animate & construct a music video on a budget. This is fascinating technology i can see myself using some of this for a scene. What wonderful times for technology. In 2007 I got a desktop with this scale of animation I loved it. Wish I could of lived these times to see how programming has developed
I have a computer today that would lag out trying to perform the demonstrated tire tread intersection operation presented. I never used software from the late 80s but it looks extremely powerful even today in a lot of ways.
The funny thing about that statement is that the average smartphone can barely emulate the high end SGI workstations of this era, and that a lot of the early CGI from the early 90s and late 80s still requires a lot of render time if rendered at a modern resolution instead of the 640x480 of the times.
7:30 what a massive chunk of resin printed tire section. I can't imagine how much a SLA printer would have cost back then, or the ridiculous amount of resin that went into that piece. Even today, despite becoming a lot cheaper, not everyone doing 3D printing will have (or need) a printer with the volume to print a similarly sized piece. I'm just happy I can afford such amazing tech for my humble DIY projects after all those patents expired.
Started with Alias back at film school, used it throughout the 90s, mostly in conjunction with other 3D packages. It had some great NURBS-based modelling tools.
Young me in '89 on a friends C64 could only dream about stuff like that. Now we run around with devices in our pockets that have 1000x more computing power. Watching stuff like that is like opening a time capsule. It gives a good impression of how fast technology evolves.
1989 I graduated from high school and in 1993 Jay was one of my early mentors at Digital Domain. He and Jim Hillin (who I'd already been working with at Metrolight, but had previously CG supervised Beauty and the Beast) got me to think about shading and lighting in new ways. One of the nicest guys I ever worked with.
22:39, takes a couple of seconds to render a still image with ray tracing and now we have real time RT with graphics cards that don't cost half your body parts.
What you see is probably just the loading of the finished image, the rendering of that image most likely took a number of hours or at least a good amount of minutes, but not seconds.
Any veteren Alias users out there remember having a bunch of CV's selected and hitting 'info' ...the resulting tsunami of opening windows for every CV would have busy clicking and closing for a never ending freaking ages. Such a great feature with those deadlines pressing:)
Holy shit, I was like "hmm, never saw this video must not have been uploaded that long ago" and apparently it has been up for.. 3 days! Enjoyed it, thanks
My father worked in factory that produces not so famous car in US call Yugo(but they produces many other stuff like weapons) ..in 1989 when i was there they had giant 3D printer ..it could print object size off a van just from computer model..i thing it was silicon graphic computer because i remeber it had very big color monitor for that time and graphic user interface...and that was in communist country so US had it for shure
It's hilarious to see this after 30 years. I'm the guy in the green blazer 16:56 in the video demoing the Rockwell TripMaster. Straight out of college and using $200K Alias software. Powerful stuff for the day, but now fully eclipsed by your average smartphone. The group was very friendly, but I was pretty intimidated interacting with industry leaders that I'd only read about.
Wow dude... be proud. You're a legend.
Cool story man! Thanks for sharing!
I would be proud to have lived this time in the industry.
I am a no body with a android cellphone with windows 10 trying to figure out how to animate & construct a music video on a budget.
This is fascinating technology i can see myself using some of this for a scene. What wonderful times for technology. In 2007 I got a desktop with this scale of animation I loved it. Wish I could of lived these times to see how programming has developed
I have a computer today that would lag out trying to perform the demonstrated tire tread intersection operation presented. I never used software from the late 80s but it looks extremely powerful even today in a lot of ways.
The funny thing about that statement is that the average smartphone can barely emulate the high end SGI workstations of this era, and that a lot of the early CGI from the early 90s and late 80s still requires a lot of render time if rendered at a modern resolution instead of the 640x480 of the times.
7:30 what a massive chunk of resin printed tire section. I can't imagine how much a SLA printer would have cost back then, or the ridiculous amount of resin that went into that piece. Even today, despite becoming a lot cheaper, not everyone doing 3D printing will have (or need) a printer with the volume to print a similarly sized piece. I'm just happy I can afford such amazing tech for my humble DIY projects after all those patents expired.
About $300,000 in 1989 dollars. $650k in today’s dollars.
Started with Alias back at film school, used it throughout the 90s, mostly in conjunction with other 3D packages.
It had some great NURBS-based modelling tools.
Young me in '89 on a friends C64 could only dream about stuff like that. Now we run around with devices in our pockets that have 1000x more computing power. Watching stuff like that is like opening a time capsule. It gives a good impression of how fast technology evolves.
I can't wait for this to come out.
Witty
I laughed
That's so cool. This software was used to make The Abyss and Terminator 2 and also for modeling the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
The interior design in the office shots in the beginning..... it's a thing a beauty, I tell you. Beautifully 80s. 💜
1989 I graduated from high school and in 1993 Jay was one of my early mentors at Digital Domain. He and Jim Hillin (who I'd already been working with at Metrolight, but had previously CG supervised Beauty and the Beast) got me to think about shading and lighting in new ways.
One of the nicest guys I ever worked with.
This is incredible technology for 1989, the year I was born!
16:58 auto generated captions: "you dont have to be a fortune 500 company to benefit from aliens"
most useful alias tutorial available =D
22:39, takes a couple of seconds to render a still image with ray tracing and now we have real time RT with graphics cards that don't cost half your body parts.
What you see is probably just the loading of the finished image, the rendering of that image most likely took a number of hours or at least a good amount of minutes, but not seconds.
Any veteren Alias users out there remember having a bunch of CV's selected and hitting 'info'
...the resulting tsunami of opening windows for every CV would have busy clicking and closing for a never ending freaking ages.
Such a great feature with those deadlines pressing:)
Holy shit, I was like "hmm, never saw this video must not have been uploaded that long ago" and apparently it has been up for.. 3 days! Enjoyed it, thanks
Weird because I uploaded it sometime last year....that's odd. Anyways. Glad you liked it, I always liked this video too!
Syd Bolton My mistake I thought it said 2017! I feel less special now for finding this
WOW! And I thought Lightwave on the amiga was way ahead of its time
Real men use all wire frame Modeling with chunky 3 button mice with balls and giant CRTs !
Those are optical mice in the video.
In 1989, I was in Primary 6. The only computer "graphic" I knew about was in the intro to the children's TV series, Terra Hawks.
I love the intro. They don't make them like that anymore.
7:35 - What?? They had 3d printing in 1989??
The first commercial 3D printer, which used light-curing resin illuminated by a laser, was introduced in 1986 by 3D Systems.
What we call "3d printing" nowadays is mainly "Personal 3d printing" but a lot of objects were already kind of 3d printed in factories for years
My father worked in factory that produces not so famous car in US call Yugo(but they produces many other stuff like weapons) ..in 1989 when i was there they had giant 3D printer ..it could print object size off a van just from computer model..i thing it was silicon graphic computer because i remeber it had very big color monitor for that time and graphic user interface...and that was in communist country so US had it for shure
3D printing has been around for decades. It's only since the past few years that it's got so cheap that people can do it.
when nvidia tries to sell the RTX cards as "ray tracing" meanwhile these legends be using it in 1989
@7:33 whut!! 3d printing in 1989?!
This is great :D
Wow. This stuff is free now, and people download it just to mess around!
where can I download?
check out Blender 3D
Yet you can barely find qualified people who actually understand or could design and model great things.
For sure blender is the best 3D package out there for doing all the stuff here and more...we all have this power now with normal home computing
@Mee Omi nobody uses blender for serious CAD modelling. 🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍
Amazing
Sad that Autodesk killed them by letting it rot while Blender and Houdini are leading the way.
wait, I knew SGI was the best but optical mouse in 1989?
I saw a vid, by LGR I think, that showed an early consumer optical mouse. Needed a special mouse pad back then. Not sure about SGI's mouse here.
Sun also had an optical mouse that required a special pad.
@@richardhaas39 Yes, I remember using one of those with a thin metal mouse pad with very fine dots printed on it.
当年的曲面建模真的神乎奇迹
I began my career in visual effects on SGI Octanes. Always loved SGI hardware and to this day IRIX is easily the best operating system I've ever used.
"Easy" to use.
if you have the manual yes
3D Modeling is exactly the same now....
Alias is still not quite 'easy', even today
It was.
Easy as in you didn't need to use a command prompt and type in commands. :p
18:43 Look at the ergonomic grip on this mouse :-D
LOL.. he said 'easy to use'.
Lol that package design engineer Brooks looks like the guy from The Office.
Wavefront Demo -Other Worlds from 1992 here:
ua-cam.com/video/c7N2yMezXII/v-deo.html
ray tracing in 1989...........
Now Autodesk acquired Alias and rename Alias StudioTools as Autodesk AliasStudio
Old news
Narrator sounds like Fritz Weaver.
"handheld mouse"
"Fully rendered in real time"" ....at about 2 fps
Well, 2 FPS is better than no FPS at all on consumer computers of the era...
@@HPPalmtopTube or they'd be rendering in seconds-per-frame rather than frames-per-second
still better tnan max
Apples and oranges