There’s quite a good article in The Economist this week that traces the history of the last few years of computer animation. The history starts, a little late in my opinion, with Toy Story (1995). I think that there’s a case to be made that the first full-length feature film to make extensive use of computer animation was Tron (1982).
The article also asks the question: "will computer-animated humans ever look realistic on the screen?". I think the answer is almost certainly: yes, it’s only a matter of time. But the article doesn’t mention what is probably the main barrier to progress: the "uncanny valley".
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