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Computer FX Ltd.
Established Date: Jan. 1, 1982
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- animation
- UK
- motion-control
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Computer FX Ltd. (later called CFX Ltd, and today called CFX Associates.) was formed by Andrew Berend, Ian Chisholm and Craig Zerouni in 1982. They began by purchasing the first IMI (Interactive Machines Inc) vector display device, a real-time, monochrome, vector device which competed with E&S products. (PDI may have bought the second IMI, or possibly the other way around) This was the first real-time animation system in Europe.
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I was once animating with a client, who said something like "this is amazing, how fast you can do this stuff. This must help you get it right very easily" to which I replied "We don't make any fewer mistakes than anybody else. We just compress the time between mistakes."
Fun Fact! -
One of our first rendered jobs went to 1-inch tape (remember that?) via a Sony BVH-2000 (or 2500, whichever it was that allowed single frame edits). The frame buffer would fill with the image, then a person had to hit "edit" on the Sony, and it would pre-roll, run forward, record the frame, and then stop. Then a person had to tell the computer to render the next frame. That person was me. I had to stay awake, hitting 2 …
Early rendering story ... -
Computer Film Company ( CFC ) -
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Craig Zerouni
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Ian Chisholm
Fun Fact!
I was once animating with a client, who said something like "this is amazing, how fast you can do this stuff. This must help you get it right very easily" to which I replied "We don't make any fewer mistakes than anybody else. We just compress the time between mistakes."
Early rendering story ...
One of our first rendered jobs went to 1-inch tape (remember that?) via a Sony BVH-2000 (or 2500, whichever it was that allowed single frame edits). The frame buffer would fill with the image, then a person had to hit "edit" on the Sony, and it would pre-roll, run forward, record the frame, and then stop. Then a person had to tell the computer to render the next frame. That person was me. I had to stay awake, hitting 2 buttons every 5 minutes, in the correct order, for about 36 hours straight, in order to get it done on time. The truth is, I did fall asleep for a few hours around 5AM, so I lost some time, but I don't think it matters now if I admit it.
Computer FX Ltd. (later called CFX Ltd, and today called CFX Associates.) was formed by Andrew Berend, Ian Chisholm and Craig Zerouni in 1982. They began by purchasing the first IMI (Interactive Machines Inc) vector display device, a real-time, monochrome, vector device which competed with E&S products. (PDI may have bought the second IMI, or possibly the other way around) This was the first real-time animation system in Europe.