jan 1, 1968 - Lee Harrison III, Beautiful Noise
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Lee Harrison III was a pioneer in analog electronic animation. In the early 1960s, he experimented with animating figures using analog circuits and a cathode ray tube. Ahead of his time, he rigged up a body suit with potentiometers and created the first working motion capture rig, animating 3D figures in real-time on his CRT screen. He made several short films with this system, which he called ANIMAC."Beautiful Noise" is the first digital face puppetry, first talking CGI character, first wireframe full body animation and it consisted of complex oscillations, and a sine/cosine mouth that opens and closes in sync to the vocalist track.
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jan 1, 1968
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~ 57 years ago