Complete with obscure reference to Electric Image: 1991, T2/Judgement Day "First use of a personal computer to create major movie 3D effects."
Also, point of trivia, the shot where the big truck first crashes through the street and lands inside the drainage channel as Robert Patrick is chasing the motorcycle - was filmed just a few blocks from where I lived at the time. They did it twice, wrecking both trucks in the process. James Cameron later referenced that shot in an interview, when asked what's the difference between a $30 mil. budget and a $100mil budget: "we get to wreck two trucks instead of one."
Also hearing him in the commentary on the dvd is priceless: when we first get to see Arnold materialize (naked) and Cameron and the producer discuss how they had to do some Digital Weiner Removal in the shot - but you could still pretty well see everything, and they decided they probably got ripped off by the vfx company on that one. I'd have loved to be the Inferno guy assigned to that shot. VFX supervisor comes over, leans in real close and says "so we need you to do this one shot...uh... just come with me and I'll show you"
Quote from: goldfarb on June 09, 2009, 11:09:42 AM
the Genesis effect sequence was not in "The Motion Picture" it was in "The Wrath of Khan", and it wasn't the first CG sequence in a film:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_CGI_in_films
