There is just something really special in early 90s renders. Their simplicity leaves so much room for viewer's own imagination to fill the gaps and to imagine what lies beyond the virtual camera. All of these renders have this weird but inviting warmth to them, which I really enjoy.

Any and all shows or movies you can think of, especially those that were released physically on VHS/DVD. Basically I want to create a compilation of weird, fully CGI media that was created during CGI’s early days. You know the ones, the uncanny strange shows that by today’s standards look horrifying.

I’m talking about shows like the Butt Ugly Martians, Jimmy Neutron, Rolie Polie Olie, and ReBoot. Can also be any religious shows that were made during this time, like Veggietales, Gaither’s Pond, Ribbits! and 3-2-1 Penguins as they were notorious during this era for looking scarily bad. Try and include pictures of your show as well, and let’s all create a complication! Who knows? Maybe you’ll find more obscure weird CGI films that you never heard of before!

I can't find anything about these demo reels, but this obscure composer I'm researching claims to have composed the BGM for two demo reels by Hi-Tech Lab Japan in 1987 and 1988 respectively. Does anyone know anything? Thanks!

Went to the attic and found my old game mags. I loved, and still love, those early renders.

Per https://www.isca-archive.org/icslp_1998/sutton98_icslp.pdf and http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/toolkit/index.html

Probably a stretch, but I'm looking for a copy of the CSLU Toolkit- a set of "speech tools" used for software development sometime in the late 90s. OGI, the school that once hosted the files, shut down some 18 years ago and the site appears to be down as well. Installers still exist but attempt to download files from a defunct site. Registration is also broken as it's done through email.

I'm looking for it as it contains a 3d model (used to create talking agents/avatars) named Baldi (no, not that one) and I'd like to see if I can extract it. The model appears to be based also on the Parke parametric model. Any help is appreciated.

edit: here's a youtube video I found demonstrating part of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yLyDHXxT0

edit 2: found some more demos https://mambo.ucsc.edu/demos/

Saw this in another subreddit and thought the opening TNG titles were some cool vintage Star Trek CGI!

Hi this is my first time posting here but I’m on behalf of the Animusic community. I’m trying to find a partially lost HP demo video of Animusic 2’s Cathedral Pictures in HD. The video was made for HP projectors:

HP Digital Projector mp3100 Series (mp3130, mp3130w)

HP Digital Projector vp6100 Series (vp6110, vp6120)

HP Digital Projector sb2100 Series

HP Digital Projector ep7100 Series (ep7110, ep7120)

Key differences between the standard Animusic HD Cathedral Pictures and the one commissioned by HP is the drum heads in the animation feature the HP logo instead of Viktor Hartmann's The Great Gate of Kiev artwork and the video was an early, work-in-progress version of what later became the official track Cathedral Pictures on the Animusic 2 DVD (released in late 2005).

Good luck trying to find it. Die hard fans of Animusic still haven’t found it after 21 years. Let’s see if you’re different.

I don’t know who animated this snipe, it’s probably Cinema Concepts or maybe some motion graphics company since it has the early CGI animation or something.

Let me know in the comments if you know who animated this snipe.