Deaths
• Lotte Reiniger, 82 yrs old, (1899 - 1981).

Movies
- 4 new animated feature films premiered this year
• "American Pop" a Ralph Bakshi Film production
• "The Fox and the Hound" a Walt Disney production
• "Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie" a Warner Bros. production
• "Heavy Metal" an Ivan Reitman/Leonard Mogel production

Specials
• "The Berenstain Bears' Easter Suprise" a Cates Bros. Company production
• "Bugs Bunny: All-American Hero" a Warner Bros. production
• "A Chipmunk Christmas" a Bagdasarian production
• "Daniel Boone" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Dennis the Menace: Mayday For Mother" a Depatie-Freleng production
• "Faeries" an MHV and Friends production
• "The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Flintstones: Jogging Fever" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma" a Hanna Barbera production
• "It's Magic, Charlie Brown" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold" a Rankin-Bass production

Television
- 18 new television shows premiered this year
• "Barbapapa" a Polyscopes production
• "Blackstar" a Filmation production
• "The Daffy and Speedy Show" a Warner Bros. production
• "Dr. Snuggles" a KidPix production
• "Gentle Ben" a Gentle Ben Animation production
• "Goldie Gold and Action Jack" a Ruby-Spears production
• "The Heathcliff and Marmaduke Show" a Ruby-Spears production
• "The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam" a Filmation production
• "The Kwicky Koala Show"a Hanna Barbera production (the last production that Tex Avery worked on before his death last year)
• "Laverne and Shirley in the Army" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Paddington Bear" a FilmFair Animation production
• "The Popeye and Olive Show" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show - and Scrappy, Too!" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Scooby-Doo Classics" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Smurfs" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Space Stars" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Spider-man and his Amazing Friends" a Marvel production
• "The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour" a Filmation production
• "The Trollkins" a Hanna Barbera production

Academy Award
• Crac" a Societ Radio-Canada production

1982
Computers
• The Last Starfighter (Digital Productions) begins production
• Tron released
• The Geometry Engine (Clark)
• Jim Clark founds Silicon Graphics Inc.
• Sun Microsystems founded (sun := Stanford University Network)
• Alain Fournier , Don Fussell , Loren Carpenter, Computer Rendering of Stochastic Models.Communications of the ACM
• Skeleton Animation System (SAS) developed at CGRG at Ohio State (Dave Zeltzer)
• Sony still frame video camera (Mavica)
• ACM begins publication of TOG (Transactions on Graphics)
• Tom Brighham develops morphing (NYIT)
• Adobe founded by John Warnock
• Toyo Links established in Tokyo
• Quantel Mirage
• Symbolics Graphics Division founded
• EPCOT Center opens
• Atari develops the data glove.
• Where the Wild Things Are test (MAGI) - digital compositing used to combine CG backgrounds and traditional animation
• AutoDesk founded; AutoCAD released
• ILM computer graphics division develops "Genesis effect" for Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan

Deaths
• Hugh Harman, 79 yrs old, (1903 - 1982).

Movies
- 5 new animated feature films premiered this year
• "Bugs Bunny's Third Movie - 1001 Rabbit Tales" a Warner Bros. production
• "Heidi's Song" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Hey, Good Lookin'" a Ralph Bakshi production
• "The Last Unicorn" a Rankin=Bass production
• "The Secret of N.I.M.H." a Don Bluth production

Specials
• "Banjo, The Woodpile Cat" a Banjo/Don Bluth production
• "Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television" a Warner Bros. production
• "Bunnicula, The Vampire Rabbit" a Ruby-Spears production
• "A Charlie Brown Celebration" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "Christmas Comes to Pac-land" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Computers Are People Too" a Walt Disney production
• "Disney's Halloween Treat" an Walt Disney production
• "Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat" a Marvel production
• "A Family Circus Easter" a Cullen-Kasden production
• "The Fat Albert Easter Special" a Filmation production
• "Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All" a Filmation production
• "The Great Bear Scare" a DimenMark Films production
• "Here Comes Garfield" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production

Television
- 17 new television shows premiered this year
• "The Adventures of the Little Prince" a Jambre/Gallerie International production
• "The Daffy and Speedy/Sylvester and Tweety Show a Warner Bros. production
• "Flying House" a CBN/Tatsunoko production.
• "The Gary Coleman Show" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Gilligan's Planet" a Filmation production
• "The Incredible Hulk/Amazing Spider-man Hour" a Marvel production
• "Inspector Gadget" a DIC production
• "Jokebook" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Laverne and Shirley with the Fonz" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Meatballs and Spaghetti" a Marvel production
• "Mork and Mindy/Laverne and Shiley/Fonz Hour" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Pac-Man Show" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Pandamonium" a Marvel production
• "The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Shirt Tales" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Sport Billy" a Filmation production

Academy Award
• "Tango" a Film Polski production

Deaths
• Otto Messmer, 91 yrs old, (1892 - 1983).

Movies
- 3 new animated feature films premiered this year
• "Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island" a Warner Bros. production
• "Here Come the Littles" a DIC production
• "Twice Upon A Time" a Korty Films/Lucas Films production

Specials
• "The Adventures of Energy" a DIC production
• "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" a Greatest Tales production
• "Beauty and the Beast" a Ruby-Spears production
• "The Care Bears In the Land Without Feelings" an Atkinson Film-Arts production
• "Castle" a Unicorn Projects production
• "The Charmkins" a Sunbow production
• "The Christmas Tree Train" an Encore Enterprises production
• "The Coneheads" a Rankin-Bass production
• "Curious George" a Lafferty, Harwood and Partners production
• "Deck the Halls With Wacky Walls" an NBC Entertainment production
• "A Disney Channel Christmas" a Film Landa production
• "A Disney Christmas Gift" a Walt Disney production
• "A Disney Halloween" a Film Landa production
• "A Flintstone Family Christmas" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Garfield On The Town" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "Happy Birthday Mickey" a Walt Disney production
• "Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown?" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "It's An Adventure, Charlie Brown" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "The Legend of Hiawatha" an Atkinson Film-Arts production

Television
- 17 new television shows premiered this year
• "The All New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Alvin and The Chipmunks" a Bagdasarian production
• "The Best of Scooby-Doo" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Biskitts" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "The Dukes" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Dungeons and Dragons" a Marvel production
• "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" a Filmation production
• "The Littles" an ABC production
• "Mr. T" a Ruby-Spears production
• "Monchhichis" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Mouseterpiece Theater" an ESNE production
• "The Pac-Man/Rubik The Amazing Cube Hour" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Puppy's Further Adventures" a Ruby-Spears production
• "The Puppy's Greatest Adventures" a Ruby-Spears production
• "Rubik the Amazing Cube" a Ruby-Spears production
• "Saturday Supercade" a Ruby-Spears production

Academy Award
• "Sundae in New York" a Motionpicker production

1984
Computers
• Robert Able & Associates produces the 1st computer generated 30 second commercial used for Super Bowl (Brilliance)
• Wavefront Technologies is the first commercially available 3D software package (founded by Mark Sylvester, Larry Barels and Bill Kovacs )
• Thomson Digital Image (TDI) founded
• International Resource Development report predicts the extinction of the keyboard in the next decade
• A-buffer (or alpha-buffer) introduced by Carpenter of Lucasfilm
• Distributed ray tracing introduced by Lucasfilm
• Cook shading model (Lucasfilm)
• 14.5 minute computer generated IMAX film (The Magic Egg) shown at SIGGRAPH 84 - 18 teams; 20 segments
• Universal Studios opens CG department
• First Macintosh computer is sold; introduced with Clio award winning commercial 1984 during Super Bowl
• McDonnel Douglas introduces the Polhemus 3Space digitizer and body Tracker
• The Cornell Box invented by Cohen
• Radiosity born - Cornell University
• John Lasseter joins Lucasfilm
• Motorola 68020
• Digital Productions (Whitney and Demos) get Academy Technical Achievement Award for CGI simulation of motion picture photography
• Lucasfilms introduces motion blur effects
• Porter and Duff compositing algorithm (Lucasfilm)
• The Adventures of Andre and Wally B. (Lucasfilm)

Deaths
• Bob Clampett, 71 yrs old, 1913 - 1984)

Movies
- 5 new animated feature films premiered this year
• “Rock and Rule” a Nelvana production
• "Fire and Ice" a Ralph Bakshi/Frank Frazetta production
• "The Plague Dogs" a Nepenthe production
• "Pogo For President - I Go Pogo" a Stowar Enterprises production
• "The Smurfs and the Magic Flute" a First Performance Pictures production

Specials
• "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" a John Erichsen production
• "The Adventures of the Get Along Gang" a Scholastic production
• "The Amazing Bungee Venture" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Bad Cat" a Ruby-Spears production
• "The Cabbage Patch Kids' First Christmas" a Ruby-Spears production
• "The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine" an Atkinson Film-Arts production
• "A Christmas Carol" a Burbank Films production
• "David Copperfield" a Burbank Films production
• "Disney's All-Star Valentine Party" a Walt Disney production
• "Donald Duck's 50th Birthday" an Andrew Solt production
• "Donald's 50th Birthday" a Film Landa Inc. production
• "From Disney With Love" a Film Landa Inc. production
• "Garfield In The Rough" a Film Roman production
• "Great Expectations" a Burbank Films production
• "I Love Chipmunks, Valentine Special" a Ruby-Spears production
• "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "Jim Henson's Muppet Babies" a Marvel/Jim Henson production

Television
- 24 new television shows premiered this year
• "Belle and Sebastian" an MK Company production
• "Challenge of the Gobots" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Curious George" a Lafferty, Harwood and Partners production
• "Danger Mouse" a Cosgrove Hall production
• "Dragon's Lair" a Ruby-Spears production
• "The Get Along Gang" a DIC/Nelvana production
• "Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats" a DIC production
• "The Incredible Hulk" a Marvel production
• "Leo the Lion" a Mushi/Sonic production
• "The Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Mighty Orbots" a TMS Entertainment and MGM/UA production
• "Muppet Babies" a Marvel/Jim Henson production
• "The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Pink Panther and Sons" a Depatie-Freleng production
• "Pole Position" a DIC production
• "Scary Scooby Funnies" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Snorks" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Transformers" a Marvel production
• "Turbo Teen" a Ruby-Spears production
• "Voltron: Defender of the Universe" a World Events production
• "The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle" a Knack Television production
• "Wolf Rock TV" a DIC production

Academy Award
• "Charade" Sheridan College

1985
Computers
• Commodore launches the new Amiga
• Sogitec founded (Xavier Nicolas)
• Max Headroom - computer-mediated live action figure
• Judson Rosebush Co. started
• Abel Image Research takes Robert Abel & Associates to shaded graphics business
• Tony de Peltrie airs
• stereo TV
• Biosensor (Toyo Links)
• Cray 2
• GKS standard
• Quantel Harry is first non-linear editor
• X10R1 format
• CGW predicts 90s graphics workstation
• Targa 16 board (AT&T) goes to market
• Pixar Image Computer goes to market
• NeXT Incorporated founded by Steve Jobs and five former Apple senior managers
• Perlin's noise functions introduced
• CD-ROMs High Sierra (ISO9660) standard introduced
• PostScript (Adobe - John Warnock)
• PODA creature animation system developed by Girard and Maciejewski at Ohio State
• Boss Films founded by Richard Edlund
• MIT Media Lab moves to new home
• Young Sherlock Holmes stained glass knight (Lucasfilm),
• 2010 (Boss Films) and Looker (DP)

Deaths
• Lou Fleischer, 94 yrs old, (1891 - 1985).

Movies
- 5 new animated feature films premiered this year
• "The Black Cauldron" a Walt Disney production
• "The Care Bears Movie" a Nelvana production
• "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer" a DIC production
• "The Secret of the Sword" a Filmation production
• "Starchaser: The Legend of Orin" a Steven Hahn production

Specials
• "The Adventures of the Scrabble People in "A Pumpkin Nonsense" an Arce production
• "The Adventures of Toad" an All Time Entertainment production
• "The Bollo Caper" a Rick Reinhart production
• "Cap'n O.G. Readmore Meets Jack and the Beanstalk" an ABC Entertainment production
• "A Chipmunk Reunion" a Bagdasarian production
• "Garfield's Halloween Adventure" a Film Roman production
• "The Glo Friends Save Christmas" a Marvel production
• "Happily Ever After" a JZM-Bill Melendez production
• "He-Man and She-Ra - A Christmas Special" a Filmation production
• "It's Your 20th Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "Kissyfur: Bear Roots" an NBC/DIC production
• "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" a Rankin-Bass production
• "Lucky Luke" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Magic of Dr. Snuggles" a Depatie-Freleng production

Television
- 30 new television shows premiered this year
• "Bananaman" a 101 production
• "The Berenstain Bears" a Southern Star production
• "Captain Harlock and the Queenof 1000 Years" a Harmony Gold production
• "The Care Bears" a DIC production
• "The Centurions" a Ruby-Spears production
• "Dennis the Menace" a DIC production
• "Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears" a Walt Disney Television production
• "Droids: The Adventures of R2D2 and C3PO" a LucasFilm/Nelvana production
• "The Ewoks" a LucasFilm/Nelvana production
• "Galtar ad the Golden Lance" a Hanna Barbera production
• "G.I. Joe" a Marvel production
• "Hulk Hogan's Rock 'N Wrestling" a DIC production
• "It's Punky Brewster" a Ruby-Spears production
• "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors" a DIC production
• "Macron I" a Saban production
• "The Magical Princess Gigi" an Ashi/Harmony Gold production
• "M.A.S.K." a DIC production
• "The Paw Paws" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Raccoons" an Atkinson Film-ARTS production
• "Robotech" a Tatsunoko production
• "Scooby's Mystery Funhouse" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Sectaurs" a Ruby-Spears production
• "She-Ra: Princess of Power" a Filmation production
• "Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Super Sunday" a Marvel production
• "The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Thundercats" a Rankin-Bass production
• "Tranzor Z" a 3B production
• "The Wuzzles" a Walt Disney production
• "Yogi's Treasure Hunt" a Hanna Barbera production

Academy Award
• "Anna and Bella" The Netherlands

1986
Computers
• The Great Mouse Detective was the first animated film to be aided by CG.
• Pixar purchased from Lucasfilm by Steve Jobs
• X-Window System (MIT Project Athena)
• Trancept Systems founded by Nick England and Mary Whitton - graphics board for Sun
• CGI group starts at Industrial Light and Magic (Doug Kay and George Joblove)
• Softimage founded by Daniel Langlois in Montreal
• Sun Microsystems goes public
• mental images founded in Berlin
• Computer Associates acquires ISSCO
• Microsoft goes public (IPO raises $61M; share prices go from $21 to $28)
• Apple IIgs introduced
• Silicon Graphics Incorporated IPO
• SGI IRIS 3000 (MIPS processor)
• Turner Whitted receives the 1986 ACM SIGGRAPH CG Achievement Award
• Waldo project introduces motion capture (Digital Productions)
• Kajiya's Rendering Equation
• Omnibus assumes Robert Able & Associates and Digital Productions in hostile takeovers by John Pennie and investors
• Whitney/Demos Productions founded
• Intel introduces 82786 graphics coprocessor chip ; Texas Instruments introduces TMS34010 Graphics System Processor
• NSFNet
• Luxo Jr. nominated for Oscar (first CGI film to be nominated - Pixar)
• TIFF (Aldus)
• Scitex founded for prepress

Movies
- 9 new animated feature films premiered this year
• "The Adventures of the American Rabbit" a Toei Animation production
• "An American Tail" an Amblin Entertainment production
• "Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation" a Nelvana production
• "Gobots: Battle of the Rocklords" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Great Mouse Detective" a Walt Disney production
• "Heathcliff: The Movie" a DIC production
• "My Little Pony: The Movie" a Sunbow/ Marvel production
• "Porky Pig In Hollywood" a Films Incorporated production
• "The Transformers: The Movie" a Sunbow/ Marvel production

Specials
• "Babar and Father Christmas" an Atkinson Film-Arts production
• "The Blinkins" an MCA production
• "The Blinkins and the Bear" an MCA production
• "The Blinkins and the Blizzard" an MCA production
• "Boop Oop A Doop" a Nobul/Crystal production
• "Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary Special" a Broadway Video production
• "Cap'n O.G. Readmore Meets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" an ABC Entertainment production
• "Christmas Every Day" a CBS Television production
• "Disney's DTV Valentine" an Walt Disney production
• "Disney's Fluppy Dogs" an Walt Disney production
• "The Flight of the Dragons" a Rankin-Bass production
• "The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration" a Hanna Barbera production
• "For Better or For Worse: "The Bestest Present" an Atkinson Film-Arts production
• "Garfield In Paradise" a Film Roman production
• "The Great Christmas Race" a Blair Entertainment production
• "The Great Heep" a Nelvana production
• "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "Jiminy Cricket: Storyteller" a Disney Channel production
• "The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure" an ABC/DIC production
• "Kissyfur: The Birds and the Bears" an NBC/DIC production
• "Kissyfur: The Lady Is A Chump" an NBC/DIC production
• "Kissyfur: We Are The Swamp" an NBC/DIC production
• "Liberty and The Littles" an ABC Entertainment production
• "The Magic Lollypop Adventure" a Blair Entertainment production

Television
- 29 new television shows premiered this year
• "The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers" a Gaylord production
• "The All New Ewoks" a Lucasfilm/Nelvana production
• "The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show" a Warner Bros. production
• "The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour" a Warner Bros. production
• "The Care Bears Family" a Nelvana production
• "Chuck Norris' Karate Kommandos" a Ruby-Spears production
• "Defenders of the Earth" a Marvel production
• "The Ewoks anbd Droids Adventure Hour" a LucasFilm/Nelvana production
• The Flintstone Kids" a Hanna Barbera production
• Foofur" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Space Highschool" a TMS Entertainment production
• "Ghost Busters" a Filmation production
• "Glo Friends" a Marvel production
• "The Inhumanoids" a Marvel production
• "Jem" a Marvel production
• "Kissyfur" an NBC production with DIC
• "Lazer Tag Academy" a Ruby-Spears production
• "My Little Pony 'N' Friends" a Marvel production
• "Mysterious Cities of Gold" an MK Company production
• "Popples" a DIC production
• "Pound Puppies" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Rainbow Brite" a DIC production
• "Rambo" a Ruby-Spears production
• "The Real Ghostbusters" a DIC production
• "Silverhawks" a Rankin-Bass production
• "Spartakus and the Sun Beneath Sea" an RMC/Monte Carlo production
• "Teen Wolf" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Ulysses 31" an Osmond/DIC production
• "Wildfire" a Hanna Barbera production

Academy Award
• "A Greek Tragedy" a CineTe pvba production

1987
Computers
• GIF format (CompuServe), JPEG format (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
• Willow (Lucasfilm) popularizes morphing
• Max Headroom debuts
• LucasArts formed
• Adobe Illustrator
• CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) standard
• Side Effects Software established
• VGA (Video Graphivs Array) invented by IBM
• Windows 2.0, MS/OS 2, Excel
• Sun 4 SPARC workstation
• Reynolds' flocking behavior algorithm (Symbolics)
• Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice
• Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) founded at Ohio State (formerly CGRG)
• Omnibus closes, eliminating DP and Abel
• Cranston/Csuri Productions closes
• Marching Cubes algorithm (Lorensen and Cline - GE)
• Metrolight Studios, RezN8 Productions, Kleiser/Walczak Construction Co., DeGraf/Wahrman founded

Deaths
• Norman McLaren, 73 yrs old, (1914 - 1987).

Movies
- 7 new animated feature films premiered this year
• "The Brave Little Toaster" a Kushner-Locke/Hyperion Pictures production
• "The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland" a Nelvana production
• "Cat City" a Pannonia Film/Sefel Pictures production
• "The Chipmunk Adventure" a Bagdasarian production
• "Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night" a Filmation production
• "The Puppetoon Movie" an Expanded Entertainment production
• "Vampires in Havana" an Instituto del Arte and Industria Cinematograficos Television production

Specials
• "An All New Adventure of Disney's Sport Goofy" a Walt Disney production
• "Barbie and the Rockers" a DIC production
• "Blondie and Dagwood" a Marvel production
• "The Bugs Bunny Easter Special" a Depatie-Freleng production
• "Cathy" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "A Chucklewood Easter" an Encore Enterprise production
• "A Claymation Christmas Celebration" a Will Vinton production
• "Disney's DTV Doggone Valentine" an Andrew Solt production
• "Disney's DTV Monster Hits" an Walt Disney production
• "Down and Out With Donald Duck" a Walt Disney production
• "Ducktales: "Treasure Of the Golden Suns" a Walt Disney production
• "The Family Dog" a Hyperion Kushner-Locke production
• "A Garfield Christmas Special" a Film Roman production
• "Garfield Goes Hollywood" a Film Roman production
• "Hooray For The Three Wisemen" a Cineteam Realizzazioni production
• "The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Little Troll Prince" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile: The Musical: "The House on East 88th St." a Michael Sporn production

Television
- 30 new television shows premiered this year
• "The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin" a DIC production
• "The Adventures of Little Koala" a Cinar production
• "Alf" a DIC production
• "The All New Pound Puppies" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Beverly Hills Teens" a DIC production
• "The Bionic Six" a TMS production
• "Bravestarr" a Filmation production
• "The Comic Strip" a Rankin-Bass production
• "Dinosaucers" a DIC production
• "Ducktales" a Walt Disney Television production
• "Fraggle Rock" a Jim Henson production
• "HBO Storybook Musicals" a Michael Sporn/DIC/Cinar production
• "Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater" a DIC production
• "Kidd Video" a DIC prodution
• "Lady Lovelylocks and the Pixietails" a DIC production
• "The Little Clowns of Happytown" an ABC production with Marvel productions
• "Little Wizards" a Marvel production
• "Maple Town" a Saban production
• "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures" a Ralph Bakshi production
• "My Pet Monster" a Nelvana production
• "The New Archies" a DIC production
• "Popeye and Son" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs" a World Events production
• "Seabert" a Sepp International production
• "Sky Commanders" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Spiral Zone" an Atlantic-Kushner Locke production
• "Starcom: The US Space Force" a DIC production
• "The Sylvanian Families" a DIC production
• "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" a Murakami-Wolf-Swenson production
• "Visionaries: Knights of the Magi Light" a TMS production

Academy Award
• "The Man Who Planted Trees" a Societe Radio-Canada

1988
Computers
• PICT format (Apple)
• Apple sues Microsoft for copyright infringement for GUI
• GKS, PHIGS standards
• Prime Computer acquires Computervision
• Solid Texturing introduced (Perlin Noise Functions)
• Internet Worm infects servers all over the world
• Gary Demos founds DemoGraFX
• Open Software Foundation (OSF)
• NeXT Cube - For $6500, it features: 25-MHz 68030 processor and 68882 math coprocessor, 8 MB RAM, 17-inch monochrome monitor, 256 MB read/write magneto-optical drive, and object-oriented NeXTSTEP operating system.
• JCGL purchased by NAMCO
• US Patent awarded to Pixar for RenderMan
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit mixes live action and animation
• Willow (Lucasfilm) uses morphing in a feature film
• D-2 composite video format introduced by Ampex
• Disney and Pixar develop CAPS (Computer Animation Paint System) (academy technical award in 1992)
• PIXAR wins Academy award for Tin Toy

Movies
- 7 new animated feature films premiered this year
• "Akira" an Akira Committee production
• "Bravestarr, The Movie" a Filmation production
• "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters" a Warner Bros. production
• "The Land Before Time" a Sullivan Bluth production
• "Oliver and Company" a Walt Disney production
• "Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw" a Family Home Entertainment production
• "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" an Amblin Entertainment production

Specials
• "All-American Sports Nuts" a New Wave production
• "The Art of Disney Animation" a Heath and Associates production
• "Bugs VS Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars" a Warner Bros. production
• "Cap'n O.G. Readmore Meets Little Red Riding Hood" an ABC Entertainment production
• "Cap'n O.G. Readmore Meets Puss In Boots" an ABC Entertainment production
• "The Care Bears Nutcracker Suite" a Nelvana production
• "Cathy's Last Resort" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "Ducktales: "Time Is Money" a Walt Disney production
• "The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Garfield: His Nine Lives" a Film Roman production
• "The Good, The Bad and Huckleberry Hound" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Here's To You, Mickey Mouse" a George Paige Associates production
• "It's The Girl In The Red Truck, Charlie Brown" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "Madeline" a DIC production

Television
- 26 new television shows premiered this year
• "The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy" a CBS Animation production
• "Alf Tales" a DIC production
• "The All New Gumby" a Clokey production
• "Beany and Cecil" a Bob Clampett/DIC production
• "Care Bears" a Nelvana production
• "Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers" a Walt Disney Television production
• "The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley" a Hanna Barbera production
• "C.O.P.S." a DIC production
• "Count Duckula" a Cosgrove-Hall production
• "Denver, the Last Dinosaur" a World Events/Calico production
• "Dynomutt, Dog Wonder" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Fantastic Max" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Further Adventures of Super Ted" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Garfield and Friends" a Film Roman production
• "Holiday Classics" a Rabbit Ears production
• "The Marvel Action Universe" a Marvel production
• "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" a Walt Disney Television production
• "Noozles" a Saban production
• "Police Academy: The Series" a Ruby-Spears production
• "A Pup Named Scoobie-Doo" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters" a DIC production
• "Superman" a Warner Bros. production
• "Tales of Little Women" a Toei Animation production
• "This is America, Charlie Brown" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "Thunderbirds: 2086" an ITC production
• "The World of David the Gnome" a Cinar production

Academy Award
• "Tin Toy" a Pixar production

1989
Computers
• 8MM videotape introduced by Sony
• Adobe Photoshop
• PHIGS+
• OSF Motif V1.0 released
• Intel 80486
• Mental Ray Renderer released (integrated with Wavefront (1992), Softimage (1993), Maya (2002)) - awarded AMPAS Technical Achievment Award in 2002
• HP buys Apollo
• Computervision acquires Calma
• ILM creates the Abyss
• PIXAR starts marketing RenderMan

Movies
- 3 new animated feature films premiered this year
• "All Dogs Go To Heaven" a Sullivan Bluth production
• "Babar: The Movie" a Nelvana production
• "The Little Mermaid" a Walt Disney production

Specials
• "Abel's Island" a Michael Sporn Animation production
• "Bill and Bunny" a Sevenska Entertainment production
• "Blondie and Dagwood: Second Wedding Workout" a King Features production
• "Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports" a Warner Bros. production
• "Cathy's Valentine" a Lee Mendelson-Bill Melendez production
• "Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers to the Rescue" a Walt Disney production
• "Dr. Seuss' The Butter Battle Book" a Ralph Bakshi production
• "DVT2: The Special" a Brighton Group production
• "The Elephant's Child" a Rabbit Ears Video production
• "The Emperor and the Nightingale" a Rabbit Ears Video production
• "The Emperor's New Clothes" a Rabbit Ears Video production
• "The Fisherman and His Wife" a Rabbit Ears Video production
• "Frog and Toad" a Churchill Films production
• "Garfield's Babes and Bullets" a Film Roman production
• "Garfield's Thanksgiving Special" a Film Roman production
• "Hagar The Horrible: "Hagar Knows Best" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Happy Circus" a La Maison du Cinema production
• "How The Leopard Got His Spots" a Rabbit Ears Video production
• "How The Rinoceros Got His Skin/How The Camel Got His Hump" a Rabbit Ears Video production
• "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" a Rabbit Ears Video production
• "Little Golden Bookland" a DIC production

Television
- 24 new television shows premiered this year
• "The Simpsons" a Clasky-Ksupo production created by Matt Goening
• "Babar" a Nelvana production
• "Beetlejuice" a Nelvana production
• The California Raisins" a Murakami-Wolf-Swenson production
• "Camp Candy" a DIC production
• "Captain N: The Game Master" a DIC production
• "Dink, The Little Dinosaur" a Ruby Spear production
• "Disney's Gummi Bears/Winnie the Pooh Hour" a Walt Disney Television production
• "G.I. Joe" a DIC production
• "Grimm's Fairy Tales" a Nippon Entertainment/Saban production
• "The Karate Kid" a DIC production
• "The Legend of Zelda" a DIC production
• "Long Ago and Far Away" a WGBH Boston production for PBS
• "Lunch Box" an Alfred Bestall/Siriol Studio production
• "Maxie's World" a DIC production
• "Paddington Bear" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Ring Raiders" a DIC production
• "Rude Dog and the Dweebs" a Marvel production
• "Rupert" an Alfred Bestell production
• "Storybook Classics" a Rabbit Ears production
• "Super Mario Brothers Super Show" a DIC production
• "Swiss Family Robinson" a Nippon Animation production
• "Vytor, The Starfire Champion" a World Events production
• "Wowser" a Telecable/ Saban production

Academy Award
• "Balance" a Laurenstein production

1990
Computers
• Microsoft ships Windows 3.0
• NewTek Video Toaster
• First edition of Graphics Gems published by Academic Press (Andrew Glassner, editor)
• US Patent awarded to Pixar for point sampling
• 3D Studio (AutoDesk)
• Windows 3.0
• IBM RS6000 workstation
• John Wiley & Sons begins publishing The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation

Deaths
• Jim Henson, puppeteer (Kermit the Frog and the Muppets) 54 yrs old, (1936 - 1990).

Movies
- 5 new animated feature films premiered this year
• "Ducktales: The Movie, Treasure of the Lost Lamp" a Walt Disney production
• "Happily Ever After" a Filmation production
• "Jetsons: The Movie" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Nutcracker Prince" a Lacewood production
• "The Rescuers Down Under" a Walt Disney production

Specials
• "Adventure Machine" an Encore production
• "Aliens Next Door" a Perennial production
• "Beauty and the Beast" a Lightyear Entertainment production
• "Bill the Minder"a Bevanfield Film production
• "Cartoon All-Stars To the Rescue" an Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation production
• "The Chipmunks Rockin' Through the Decades" a Bagdasarian production
• "Circus Dreams" a La Maison du Cinema production
• "Computer Warriors" a Kroyer Films production
• "Disney's Rootin' Tootin' Roundup" a Robert Heath Inc. production
• "Disney's Tale Spin Plunder & Lightning" an Walt Disney production
• "Ducktales: The Movie Special" a Walt Disney production
• "Easter Egg Mornin'" a Bobby Goldsboro production
• "Fantasia: The Creation of a Disney Classic" a Robert Heath production
• "Goofy's Guide to Success" a Robert Heath production
• "Happy Birthday Bugs: 50 Looney Years" a Warner Bros. production
• "Hungarian Folk Tales" an MTV production
• "It Zwibble: Earthday Birthday" a Michael Sporn production
• "The Jackie Bison Show" a Stein & Illes production
• "The Little Match Girl" a Michael Sporn production
• "Madeline's Christmas" a DIC production

Television
- 28 new television shows premiered this year
• "The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" a Marvel production
•"Barnyard Commandos" a Murikami-Wolf-Swenson production
• "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Bobby's World" a Film Roman production
• "Captain Planet and the Planeteers" a DIC production
• "Chipmunks go to the Movies" a Bagdasarian production
• "Dragon Warrior" a Saban production
• "Freaky Stories" a Vujade production
• "Kid'N' Play" a Marvel/Saban production
• "Little Rosey" a Nelvana production
• "Maya The Bee" an Apollo Film production
• "The Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The New Adventures of He-Man" a Jetlag/ DIC production
• "New Kids on the Block" a DIC production
• "Peter Pan and the Pirates" a Southern Star/TMS Entertainment production
• "Piggsburg Pigs!" a Ruby-Spears production
• "Rick Moranis in Gravedale High" a Hanna Barbera production
• "The Simpsons" a Gracie Films/Klasky-Csupo production
• "Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures" a Warner Bros. production
• "Tale Spin" a Walt Disney Television production
• "Tom and Jerry Kids Show" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Video Power" a Saban production
• "Wake, Rattle and Roll" a Hanna Barbera production
• "Widget, The World Watcher" a Kroyer-Films production
• "The Wizard of Oz" a DIC production
• "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" a Cinar production
• "Zazoo U" a Film Roman production

Academy Award
• "Creature Comforts" a Nick Park production

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