The impressive thing is they did all those visuals without a gui. They had to calculate and hand code every element and wouldn’t know if it worked until the film was developed.
Edit: they also weren’t eligible for best visial effects because they “cheated” by using computers.
I watched it at least 200 times when I was a little kid. Maybe I’m a bit autistic, maybe I’m a nerdgirl (probably both) but it was, and still is, one of my faves.
In it’s time, the special effects were mind blowing. We little boys were like, “OMG! Light cycles!”
AFAIK quite a bunch of it isn’t even CGI. Lots of creative lighting tricks and just very well done classic animation.
I feel like even today, the CGI is super impressive for 1982 (?).
given that the metaphorical inside of a computer is usually imagined to look… well, computer-y, i think 1980’s CG is spot on.
i remember mom telling me as a kid (~2004) “now don’t judge the CG too harshly, it’s very old” and i was like “are you kidding? this looks AWESOME!”
It’s actually pretty cool that your mom got you into it!
my mom is so cool 🥹 she saw it in theaters in college and made sure to get in on VHS from the library for us as kids
The impressive thing is they did all those visuals without a gui. They had to calculate and hand code every element and wouldn’t know if it worked until the film was developed.
Edit: they also weren’t eligible for best visial effects because they “cheated” by using computers.
I didn’t know they were disqualified from best effects. That’s truly tragic 😑
I watched it at least 200 times when I was a little kid. Maybe I’m a bit autistic, maybe I’m a nerdgirl (probably both) but it was, and still is, one of my faves.