Animated film is a real winner

'WALL-E' should garner a best film nomination in Oscars, says critic

Computer generated images (CGI) were first used as a special effects tool in the film business, seen for the first time in The Abyss (1989) and later in Terminator II: Judgment Day (1991). Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) was famous for the use of the tool when it came to creating the dinosaurs within the film, and finally in 1995 an entire feature film was created inside a computer.

First of all, let’s be clear that Pixar, the company that teamed with Disney to create some of the greatest animations of this generation, made Tin Toy in the ’90s, a fascinating early look at what could be wrought inside a computer. That led to Toy Story (1995), which changed the face of the industry and revolutionized the art form and technology. Like the coming of sound, movies were rocked by CGI as sweeping change could be felt in the air. You see, the technology could be used to create stunning animation or as visual effects tools in big-budget epics like Saving Private Ryan (1998), or low-budget works such as The Sweet Hereafter (1997), in which the bus plunging into the frigid water is all a computer effect.

Since Toy Story, the CGI-animated features have dominated the box office, with the most breathtaking work being that in Finding Nemo (2003), a brilliantly animated film that was also wildly entertaining and fun to watch. So popular were these films that a brand new Academy Award was created to present to the best animated feature film each year, as the flesh-and-blood pictures were being threatened by the presence of such brilliance in the world of animation.

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