Read a description of computer-generated imagery (CGI) technology at this Sketch Farm web site.

A 1982 press release from Walt Disney Studies describes the use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in its film, Tron, one of the first films to use the technology. Site maintained by the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Ohio State University.

The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Ohio State University, hosts this timeline of events in computer-generated imagery (CGI) and other special effects technology.

View examples of films using CGI technology at the Orange Marble Animation Studio web site.

PBS maintains this companion web site to its series Nova that focuses on special effects in filmmaking.

Read this series of articles on visual and special effects in film history that includes information on computer-generated imagery (CGI). Commercial site maintained by Tim Dirks for Film Site.

This overview of "milestones" in film special effects includes an overview of computer-generated imagery (CGI) technology. Commercially sponsored, film site is edited by Tim Dirks.

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