25 Shocking CGI Movie Moments That Left You Speechless

25. The World's First Purely CGI Character - Young Sherlock Holmes

There can be something of a stigma attached to movie characters created purely through CGI in this day and age. It's easy to believe that the likes of Justice League's Steppenwolf could have been far more convincing with an actor in motion capture.

However, what Young Sherlock Holmes achieved in 1985, way before motion capture was ever around, is nothing short of astounding. This was the first cinematic character to be brought to the screen purely through computer imagery, and it is no exaggeration to say that the effects look incredible even to this day.

The character in question was a 2D knight on a stained glass window, who burst forth into the third dimension. The glass shaking before it wasn't the most convincing, but the knight himself was so damn good that nothing else in the scene had too much attention paid to it.

This was 1985, and there was not only a completely computer-generated 2D knight moving through a real-life scene, but the camera even panned around to the back just to fully show off what an achievement this was. You'd be forgiven for thinking this would be crude and poorly developed looking back 40 years later, but it genuinely still looks impressive.