CG History
The Amiga Juggler comes back
François Gastaldo, a French teacher specializing in lighting, shading and texturing, has recreated the Amiga Juggler animation using Blender and the Open Shading Language (OSL) implementation for the Cycles renderer. The Amiga Juggler is a historic ray-traced one second looping animation of a juggler made of spheres originally created by Eric Graham back in 1986 with the Commodore Amiga computer. The animation showcased the 3D computing capabilities ushered by desktop computers of the mid-1980s and became an iconic image for CG graphics at the time. (more...)
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Wed Jun 17, 2015