Flashback to video I wrote, directed, produced in 1984 on manufacturing integrated circuits
Moire Quantum Matter is the future. Here’s a blast from the past.
I wrote, directed, edited and did the CG and stop motion animation on this video for Fairchild Semiconductor way back in 1983-84. Eric Jurgenson was the video camera operator and tape to tape editing system operator. Michael McInnis did the music. Tom Bryand did the CG tech. Andy Graham ran the stop motion animation camera system and incremented the models and animation rigs I built and lit with fiber optics to get the highlights sweeping across the wafers.
Our CG was done on one of the earliest Cubic Systems dedicated 3D graphics computers. We did this CG only a year or so after an affordable and functional IBM PC became available which served as the Cubic Systems command line input device. At that time the Mac was still just a useless doorstop and MS Windows was 2 years in the future.
My first 3D animation was on an Apple 2+ in 1981 using a wireframe 3D program (Apple World?). I animated the Fairchild logo frame by frame by hand XYZ input onto 3/4” videocassette tape rescanning the 2+ green screen with Eric’s Panasonic video camera. Tedious but ultimately satisfying. The client loved it!
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