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Incitatus

(5,317 posts) Sun Nov 25, 2012, 03:50 AM Nov 2012

Money For Nothing

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Money For Nothing (Original Post) Incitatus Nov 2012 OP

I remember seeing this video as a teen and my mind just being blown by the computer effects. Systematic Chaos Nov 2012 #1

Systematic Chaos

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1. I remember seeing this video as a teen and my mind just being blown by the computer effects.

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Sun Nov 25, 2012, 07:14 AM

Nov 2012

As silly as this looks now, in the mid 80s it was totally state of the art, and that animation cost several thousand dollars per second to produce. Which, I suppose, helps explain why only parts of it are computer animated.

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