3D Development Software

Unreal Editor Is 3D Design sofware for ingame level creation, Unreal Ed normally comes bundled with the games that use it, such as Tom Clanceys Rainbow 6 :3 Raven Shield and Splinter Cell Chaos Thorery. Unreal Editor is a subtractive-based 3D level design software, this means that the start of a level in Unreal Ed is a large mass in [...]

Interactive Computer Graphics Overview

The phrase computer graphics was created by William Fetter in 1960 and work in this field officially started when Ivan Sutherland in 1963 showed the computers potential to be used for interactive drawings. However 3 major barriers were discovered that made the computer graphics potential slow to develop.   The high cost of computing at [...]

Cartesian Co-ordinate System

3D software packages use the Cartesian Co-ordinate System to create the illusion of working in a 3d environment on a 2D surface i.e. your computer screen, all 3D bases like games programs use this system to locate any point anywhere at any time.  French scientist and philosopher Rene Descartes was the one who invented the Cartesian Co-ordinate [...]

William Fetter’s Significance

William Fetter (1928-2002), an art director who worked for Boeing, was a computer graphics pioneer and the first to draw the human figure using a computer (above) He also Created the term Computer Graphics to describe the work he did at Boeing   William Fetter fits into the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE’s four categories of: [...]

Dreamworks CG Movie Production Pipline

PRODUCTION PIPLINE  Concept. A concept is created, and depending on the type of film it can be inspired by a wide variety of sources if the concept is chosen the script is then wrote. Script. The script is handed over to the storyboard team one page at a time, they read the page and create [...]