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4. Futureworld Was The First Movie To Use 3D CGI
Though it's often assumed that 1982's Tron was the first movie to use 3D CGI effects, that's not quite right. An entire six years earlier, Westworld sequel Futureworld took an impressive stab at it - no matter the tawdry quality of the movie otherwise.
Indeed, the lack of Westworld writer-director Michael Crichton's involvement looms large throughout this woefully uneven follow-up, which is honestly just a bit of a slog to get through.
But Futureworld nevertheless earned a firm place in VFX history during its memorable clone creation sequence, where digital 3D images of hands and faces are shown being synthesised.
Never before had a major feature film contained 3D CGI, and though its appearance here was only brief, it nevertheless blew the doors open, allowing a swath of superior films to use the tech - Star Wars, Tron, and The Abyss, for example - in the years that followed.