Film Industry Technology 1990's

In 1995, The first ever feature length computer-animated film was released, best known as Toy Story.
The whole of the film was created using CG I ( Computer Generated Imagery), and marked the jump from hand drawn animation.
Up until 1995, all animated films were created by a series of hand drawn pictures, with slight changes added to the picture each frame to give the effect of movement when all the frames are placed together and played.
Pixar was the first film company to produce CG I films, and created short videos such as For the Birds, The Adventures of André and Wally B., Luxo Jr. and Geri's Game.

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A Bug's Life was the second feature length CG I film that Pixar created, and was released in 1998. At this time, with the technology still new, it took considerably longer to produce a single film.  From this time on, however, Pixar started to produce film at least one a year.
Others include Monsters inc., Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, Cars, Up, Toy Story 3, and Monsters University.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pixar_films

Not long after Pixar had produced their first feature length CG I film, Other producers such as Walt Disney and Dreamworks.
Disney's first CG I film was Dinosaur, produced in 2000. Other films using entire CG I include Chicken Little, and Bolt. However, some films such as Treasure planet, Make use of both CG I effects and hand drawn animation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walt_Disney_Animation_Studios_films

Dreamworks first CG I film was Antz, made in 1998, and include other films such as Shrek, Madagascar, Over the Hedge and Wallace and Gromit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks_Animation#Feature_films

Due to CG I used in animation, animated film have spiked in popularity. This increase in appreciation for animation has meant that animated film budgets have increased, allowing producers to further improve the quality of animated CG I films. This kind of budgeting has led to animation phenomenon such as The Adventures of Tin Tin released in 2012. CG I standards in films such as these are incredible with attention to detail that would never have been achieved without the introduction and popularity of CG I effects.

This technology has raised the status of animated film, and they are now more critically recognized than ever before. Shrek was the first film to win an Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after they introduced a new category for best animated film. However, there had been much time spent waiting for an animated film category to arise, as animation had not been considered important enough to be awarded Oscars. It has only been, since CG I was introduced, that animation has earned its rightful place in the film industry.