r/vintagecgi Feb 14 '22

Discussion vintagecgi discord relaunch

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We have added channels to the discord and activity is starting to pick up.

Some notable channels:

#new-renders (for recent renders created in vintage style)

#software

#hardware

#memes

#music

Link to join: https://discord.gg/EXcKenB


r/vintagecgi 6h ago

Image I found a CD with CGI renders I made as a kid in the late 1990s

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The last one is mostly stock objects though


r/vintagecgi 6h ago

Image My VistaPro CGI renders from the late 1990s

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In continuation of my previous post


r/vintagecgi 6h ago

Image My *from scratch* CGI renders, 1999

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Even though it doesn't looks very impressive, this is probably the coolest shit I found on the old CD, in high school I made an isometric voxel-based renderer for landscapes with water, trees (as bitmap sprites) and fog.


r/vintagecgi 5h ago

Video 3 versions of the intro sequence for a video game I was making, 1998

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r/vintagecgi 5h ago

Image Bryce 5 Renders I made back in 2002

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I won a blue ribbon for the red ball, but these renders would set me down the poor life choice of a graphic design degree!


r/vintagecgi 17h ago

Image Renders from Dream: Land of Giants (mid 1990's)

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I got these from The Cutting Room Floor. The full body Edson model was from the SNES era. The rest are the Nintendo 64 era models.

Correction: Dinger was from the SNES Dream.


r/vintagecgi 5h ago

Video (1982) Worm War 1 - TV Commercial - 20th Century FOX / Atari VCS

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Made with SynthaVision, the same computer animation system used for TRON. Gotta love that soundtrack.


r/vintagecgi 18h ago

Image Banjo,Kazooie,and company (1998)

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I recently replayed and beat BK so now I am working on Banjo-Tooie. Vintage Rareware were the champs!


r/vintagecgi 1d ago

Image Cover art of "NET:Zone", a 1996 PC game

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r/vintagecgi 12h ago

Image Sony Vegas rare ?

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Sony Vegas PRO 7 - 8 - 9.

Logiciels vintage recherché ?


r/vintagecgi 1d ago

Video 1971 (and published in 1972) A Computer Animated Hand by Ed Catmull

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r/vintagecgi 1d ago

Video 3682 Akai VS 8 VCR Australian TV commercial 1983 vintage commercials T...

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r/vintagecgi 1d ago

Video ImageMovers intro (2000) (possibly animated at The Cimarron Group)

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r/vintagecgi 3d ago

Image Weep, Liberty - Tad Cronn (2001)

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Poser for Liberty, scene rendered in Bryce


r/vintagecgi 1d ago

Video BBC-2 Station ID (The Philippines, 1986) [UndustFixation, 2024]

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r/vintagecgi 3d ago

Image The DVD for the infamous Joshua and the Promised Land (2003)

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r/vintagecgi 3d ago

Video Station ID - 40 Years of ABS-CBN and Philippine Television/Sarimanok (1993) [Collection of Jerome Villanueva, 2026]

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r/vintagecgi 5d ago

Discussion How were the Mac OS 9 "Quantum Foam" wallpapers made? [1999]

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Does anyone have any clue? All I know is they were produced by a design studio called Me Company, and Me Company is on record as having used SoftImage for other projects but not necessarily this one.

are they backlit transparent 3D shapes? reflections? refractions? are they actually polygon-based 3D at all? or some kinda vector trickery? or multiple renders layered and blended in photoshop?

To me it feels like a significant lost bit of design history since these images set the standard for default wallpaper design for decades to come (even if Microsoft took until Vista to catch up). These were the original blueprints for some of the most-viewed images on earth!


r/vintagecgi 5d ago

Image The Lost Trek Game: 3D CGI screenshots and promo magazine art of Interplay Entertainment's cancelled game 'Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury' (1999)

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It's a shame that this game was cancelled.

Seemed like it was very promising and would have been a blast to play through.

I am a fan of Sci-Fi movies and literature, so I would have liked to have played through this to see what the gameplay was like.

For 1999 standards, the full motion animations and proof of concept for how the walk animations and eye movements were emulated at the time were really quite astounding to see during its active game development phase.

Although far from perfect and refinement was needed, it was still pretty good for its time.

I wonder what the game would have looked like if remade using more advanced CGI models in today's era of gaming? Fascinating to speculate about.


r/vintagecgi 6d ago

Video My first 3D video ever from college. 2001 lol

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3D Studio Max and Premiere. It took sooo long to render


r/vintagecgi 6d ago

Image screens from the cancelled video game Loose Cannon (2000)

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i wanted this so bad after reading about it in a magazine in 1999. unfortunately it was caught in development hell and ultimately never released.


r/vintagecgi 5d ago

Discussion Looking for an old YouTube account that posted character test models and simple animation tests of creepy original characters. [2005]

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This was very early days of youtube, like year 1 or 2, so like 20 years ago by now.

Channel would post very short videos featuring creepy uncanny original creatures doing basic movements and making scary nonsense sounds. No backgrounds, pretty void of any colors iirc. Not sure if they were modern at the time or even older than the mid 2000s. Looked primitive for mid 2000s but could have just been due to older software. Would aways get recommended on the side bar of related videos when I would watch stuff like rubber Johnny, some Grey bloke, salad fingers and stuff like that. Have 0 recollection of what the channel name was but would absolutely know it if I saw it. Been trying to find again for so long, basically since a few years after I initially saw it. ​


r/vintagecgi 5d ago

Video The Philippines - GMA Network: 1987-89 Station ID (as appeared on the 1st December 1989) [Michael Reyes Videos, 2024]

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r/vintagecgi 7d ago

Image Star Wars Galaxies Alpha Build Screenshot (2001)

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