He funded the computers and frame buffers used in the making of the unfinished computer-generated film "The Works (film)".
For now, it is impossible for computer-generated films to be made without actors.
In the late 1980s, SGI computers were used to create some of the first fully computer-generated short films at Pixar.
Homer explains that the world he is in looks like something from Tron, but no one understands the reference to that computer-generated film.
Some of the biggest movies in recent years, "Shrek 2" and "Finding Nemo" among them, have been computer-generated animated films.
Disney made film history with Tron, the first computer-generated film.
One contains an eight-minute computer-generated film of two tower blocks typical of the French housing projects that sprang up in the 1970's.
Many of these creators were inspired by the stunning, elaborate images found in video games and computer-generated films.
Mr. Lasseter and the others at Pixar began to churn out a series of short, computer-generated films, about one a year.
Q3 (1999) is a 32-minute computer-generated film made by him.
