TIMELINE FOR THE HISTORY OF VFX

1933 => <KING KONG> The visual effect is as engaging as human actors

1958 => <The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad> frame by frame controller.

1963 => <Jason And The Argonauts> 4-months-skeleton battle animation

1985 => <Young Sherlock> Holmes Computer generated character

1989 => <The Abyss> Used an earlier version of Photoshop to complete the 75s liquid water animation.

1991 => <Terminator 2> Judgment Day Better water effect

1993 => <Jurassic Park> Armature devices were used

1995 => <Casper> The first computer-animated

1995 => <Toy story> The first entirely computer-animated feature film

1996 => <Dragonheart>

1999 => <Star Wars: Episode I>The Phantom Menace Over 2000 visual effects & including sixty digital characters

2001 => <Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within>

2002 => <The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers> The Oscar for best visual effects (three years)

2002 => <Star Wars: Episode II>Attack of the Clones Improved new character

2003 => <The Matrix> Reloaded Used a process called Universal Capture to record the real actor’s performance. And played back from different angles and under different lighting conditions

2005 => <King Kong>The largest number of visual effect shots in a single film

2006 => <Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest> Davy Jones was generated by computer

2007 => <Beowulf Motion> capture technique to transform life action into digital animation.

2008 => <The Curious Case of Benjamin Button> The actor’s face was captured to create a new face.

2009 => <Avatar> Using face capture and motion capture.