Son of Animation Sampler (Cubicomp demonstration videocassette)

1985

Ephemera

Cubicomp Corporation, Berkeley, California
Videocassette in a black clamshell case, hand-drawn label dated Jan. 1985

The Library

Description

This videocassette is a demonstration reel from Cubicomp, a Berkeley company founded in 1982 whose PictureMaker system brought three-dimensional, shaded computer animation to the IBM PC. Its title suggests an earlier Animation Sampler. The hand-drawn label dates it January 1985, the year Cubicomp showed PictureMaker at SIGGRAPH as a video animation system. A Cubicomp system produced nearly all the screen images on the spaceship set of the 1984 film 2010.

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