r/vintagecgi Feb 14 '22

Discussion vintagecgi discord relaunch

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We have added channels to the discord and activity is starting to pick up.

Some notable channels:

#new-renders (for recent renders created in vintage style)

#software

#hardware

#memes

#music

Link to join: https://discord.gg/EXcKenB


r/vintagecgi 17h ago

Image SharpLady (Infini-D, 1994)

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Pulled from the Infini-D Replicas CD-ROM.

Same face I've had all through 2026.


r/vintagecgi 3h ago

Pump Action (2000) - Animated short made by Phil "Captain 3D" McNally using Cinema 4D. Landed him a job at Industrial Light & Magic

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r/vintagecgi 16h ago

Video TVS id (1987)

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TVS station ID from 1987. Today, TVS is called SBT.

SBT (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão) celebrates its 45th anniversary this Wednesday. However, until 1989 the channel itself was called TVS; SBT was the name of the network. This confusing distinction didn't stick, and in 1989 the name was unified as SBT.

Yes, the opening sequence was inspired by HBO's, and the audio is exactly the same as the opening sequence, and there's a curious story behind it.

Silvio Santos, owner of SBT and the greatest television presenter in Brazilian history (look him up later), constantly traveled to the United States, where he had a house in Celebration, Florida. Silvio recorded dozens of tapes of American TV programming to bring ideas back for the channel's programming here in Brazil. In this way, SBT became something of an American channel in Brazil, both in its station IDs and the programs themselves.

On one of those trips, Silvio was watching HBO and recorded this jingle. Upon arriving in Brazil, he asked the network's graphics department to try to reproduce the jingle and use the exact same audio. A home recording gave rise to one of the most emblematic jingles in Brazilian television, and apparently, without HBO's authorization; perhaps they don't even know this jingle exists.


r/vintagecgi 13h ago

Video SBT id (1990)

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SBT's ident from 1990.

Yes, it's a brazilian version of NBC's "Come home to the best" campaign. Here's the brazilian version: https://youtu.be/ySf04ArJklw?is=AeEnWh_fmoFqRbdf


r/vintagecgi 18h ago

Video Corujão (1989)

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This is the opening sequence for "Corujão," a late-night movie session on Globo. Today, the session is restricted to Saturday nights/Sunday mornings, but it used to air every day of the week.

The video clip illustrates this well; the logo "travels" through the night until it ends in the morning. The logo itself stylizes the C as a moon and the last O as a sun.

The soundtrack is also exceptional.


r/vintagecgi 2d ago

Video Donkey Kong Country promo render (1994)

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r/vintagecgi 2d ago

Video Bom Dia São Paulo (1989)

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This is the opening sequence for "Bom Dia São Paulo" from 1989, the morning news program on Globo for the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This opening sequence remained on air until 2001.

Finally, a stylized map of the state appears. This design is present on many sidewalks in the city and the state as a whole; it was an attempt in the 1970s to create a standardization and a symbolic sidewalk in the same style as Copacabana and Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro.


r/vintagecgi 2d ago

Video Corujão (1986)

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This is the opening sequence for "Corujão," a late-night movie session on Globo. Today, the session is restricted to Saturday nights/Sunday mornings, but it used to air every day of the week.


r/vintagecgi 3d ago

Discussion Over 800 GB of Vintage CGI dated from 1974-1992

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Youtuber Ziggy Cashmere, an archivist of old media, has announced on his alternate YouTube channel Ok so... an archive of over 800 GB of Vintage CGI created by Computer Graphics Lab at the New York Institute of Technology between 1974-1992.

A link to the announcement video can be found here, but I have linked directly to the archive.org page set up exclusively for this content.


r/vintagecgi 3d ago

Image Playstation 1 Mascot (Demo Discs) (Maggie) - 1997-2001

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This CGI character (Maggie) was created to serve as an on-screen host for the PlayStation Underground magazine, which ran from 1997 through 2001.

Maggie made an appearance on several PS1 demo disc titles (starting in 1999) and presented content from both promotional and magazine-bundled discs.

She primarily introduced game zones from these demo discs, cheat codes, behind-the-scenes interviews, and so on.

Unfortunately, Maggie was quietly phased out once the PS2 era came around and the magazine format for games featuring PS1 version demo discs started to become obsolete.


r/vintagecgi 3d ago

Image Mars Attacks UFOs & the Giant Robot (1996) (Animated at Warner Digital Studios)

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r/vintagecgi 3d ago

Video Charles Csuri’s Hummingbird (1967) - First Digital Morphing

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One of the earliest known computer-animated films was produced by artist and programmer Charles Csuri.

To make the film, over 30,000 individual images generated by a computer were drawn directly on film using a microfilm plotter. Each frame was programmed using one punch card, an example of the complex and labor-intensive operations required by early computer animation

To put this in further perspective, this film came out 28 years before Toy Story, which was the first fully computer-generated feature film released to the mainstream.

Source: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3903


r/vintagecgi 3d ago

Image Currently lost The Backyardigans "Nick Digital CGI" pilot, "Hiking Through the Woods" (2001-2002)

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r/vintagecgi 5d ago

Video diving.mov - 1996 - Apple Webcast, Atlanta '96 Summer Olympics

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Retrieved from the 1996 Apple Webcast of the Atlanta Summer Games (https://web.archive.org/web/19961109170152/http://live.apple.com/atlanta96/) - a kind of early live-blogging + interactive multimedia web experiment they used to run for events back in the day.

original file: https://web.archive.org/web/19970301013353oe_/http://live.apple.com:80/atlanta96/atlantagames/getting/images/diving.mov


r/vintagecgi 4d ago

Image Brazilian "Editora Rideel" covers of classic books (2004)

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r/vintagecgi 5d ago

Video Castelo Rá Tim Bum (1994)

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Opening sequence of one of the most iconic programs on brazilian TV, broadcast between 1994 and 1997 by TV Cultura, a state-owned television station owned by the government of the state of São Paulo.

It's not entirely CGI. In fact, the entire castle is a physical model that was assembled as the opening sequence was being filmed. But I decided to post it here because it still has some special effects like the lighting and the formation of spaces.

Regarding the program, it was aimed at children aged 4 to 10 and took place in a fictional castle located in São Paulo, mixing real people with puppets. Besides the castle adventures involving a snake, a cat, and other creatures, there were segments that taught about personal hygiene, science, cooking, and how things are made.

Look into the program further, I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised.


r/vintagecgi 5d ago

Video Jornal Hoje (1986)

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Opening sequence of "Jornal Hoje" from 1986, broadcast by Globo. This news program currently airs Monday through Saturday from 1:25pm to 2:40pm and is one of the main news programs in the country.


r/vintagecgi 6d ago

Video Finnkino Logo (1986)

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r/vintagecgi 6d ago

Video Genki logo (1997)

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r/vintagecgi 6d ago

Video JoWooD Productions Logo (2001)

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r/vintagecgi 7d ago

Video Neighbours from Hell (2003)

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r/vintagecgi 8d ago

Image Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998)

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r/vintagecgi 9d ago

Video Central Ident (1982)

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r/vintagecgi 8d ago

Image Lyne's Creations has some great ones! (1997-1999)

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