Comments by "Harry \x22Nic\x22 Nicholas" (@HarryNicNicholas) on "" video.

  1.  @scottmanley  and don't forget "flight of the navigator" i think omnibus did the graphics? i started in CGI in 1974 (!) see my comment.
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  2. my first official graphics job was pasting the new, modern (!) southern gas logo onto all their stationery, (around 1972) that led to seven years in porn, that led to a degree in graphic design, which led to a further career in computer graphics, first with digital pictures, then with CFX, and further on freelance for everyone, MPC, 4:2:2, smoke and mirrors, lost in space, framestore / cfc, digital arts, electronic arts - well too many to list - i did about 20 fx shots on the BBC planets (1999) series too....i have a channel. i have to say i did a lot of bbc basic animation for my degree show (kingston poly 1984) all inspired by the voyager animations. come to think of it i was tape/punch card librarian at a computer bureau (FENI data services, part of sunlight laundries) who used UNIVAC 9400 machines, and the guys there did some ascii nudes, so i was involved in computer graphics as far back as 1974. although i also cleaned the coffee machine and mowed the lawn. at CFX we used to shoot onto film from a 4000 line vector display (i forget the make) engineered by ian chisholm and software by craig zerouni, we would shoot a pass of one colour onto a mitchell camera, rewind the film, shoot a pass of a second colour and so on, and use matte passes to simulate hidden line removal. sitting in a darkened room for hours shooting one frame at a time, several times for multi colour- and if ONE FRAME was wrong.....i think the first ad i did using that technique was the vauxhall astra (the first one) launch. i have a ton of odd stills on my facebook photo albums pages "a short history of computer graphics" that are a variety of really ancient work i saved from the skip, film, video some storyboards. PS i have some 3d animations of the EVA pod and discovery ship from 2001 on my channel (a long way back) and a robbie the robot i did in 3D.
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  3. i was at cfx in soho london around 1985 and we used a hi-res vector display (i forget the make) and shot onto film using colour gels for each colour pass, but we did exclusively wire frame, any "rendering" was done by plotting onto cel and hand painting.
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  4. interesting comment, do yyou know of ian chislholm, craig zerouni, chris briscoe, paul brown? all people i have worked for around the late 1980's at digital pictures and cfx (london).
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  5. i'm hearing names that ring bells, i was at digital pictures and cfx in london around 1984 ish and i swanned around soho for another twenty years after that....
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