1968 ASCII Animation from Russia
By Harry McCracken | Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 8:59 am
There’s Up, there’s Shrek, and then there’s…this. It’s a bit of experimental computer animation of a cat done in Russia in 1968. The scientists who made it created hundreds of ASCII art images of the kitty, then printed them out and filmed them pose by pose.
It only took another eighteen years to get to Luxo Jr…
(Via Cartoon Brew.) (UPDATE: the Brew is suffering a malware attack at the moment–it’s fine on my Mac, but Firefox for Windows is apparently blocking it…)
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March 21st, 2010 at 2:03 am
Firefox blocks the site for me
September 7th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Some old russian sailor once said to me scary games are them be told ye a man of gold
March 21st, 2010 at 9:22 am
Which link is it blocking?
March 21st, 2010 at 9:35 am
Aha, it’s Cartoon Brew–they’re reporting that they’ve been hacked and are working on fixing it.
–Harry
March 21st, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Endut! Hok hek!
March 21st, 2010 at 1:44 pm
It sure ain’t Avatar… and only 18 years
March 21st, 2010 at 3:25 pm
It’s hard to understand the thrill that early computer imaging produced for those who could see the future. Early efforts, crude by today’s standards, were a quantum leap of innovation. It was magic, truly enthralling.
I would argue that what counts is the delta, or the incremental difference, and not the absolute result.
I remember being blown away by the first computer animation films in the late 1960’s.
By the same token, I think that Morse’s telegraphy was a truly exciting threshold, perhaps unmatched since.
March 21st, 2010 at 3:37 pm
I think I saw the same cat twice….. must be a glitch in the matrix.
March 21st, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Blah: Well, maybe its time we started making 3D ascii art?
March 21st, 2010 at 7:27 pm
It’s very cool seeing a computer animation from 42 years ago. However, being the Soviet Union, it appears the best photography equipment they could get was from 42 years further back.
March 21st, 2010 at 10:38 pm
What does this have to do with computers or CGI? They produced on a computer
ASCII art and then printed it to make stills for a film. Sounds like the same way Steam Boat Bill was made,except the stills were drawn by hand,and the results much more pleasing.In’68 just about everyone had some ASCII art tacked up on the office wall.Making a flip book is no big stretch.
March 22nd, 2010 at 3:43 am
Very cool, but that cat is damn freaky looking. I guess they were dog lovers 🙂
March 22nd, 2010 at 8:27 am
How utterly underwhelming.
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:04 am
Why does cat have Stalin’s moustache?
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