[RandallFlagg]

I still don’t get why 1982’s Tron doesn’t get the distinction of first CGI in a movie.

[ctdonath2]

Not just “first CGI”, but first _pervasive_ CGI.
Stained-glass man lasted just 30 seconds.
Tron’s in-world sequence was over an hour.

[Chipper]

Star Wars had some CGI in it with the Death Star plans. The author makes the distinction of the stained-glass man being first CGI person. Tron was definitely first large scale CGI involved movie.

I’d rather watch any of the Marvel movies than most of the dreck he put in his article.

[RansomOttawa]

I still don’t get why 1982’s Tron doesn’t get the distinction of first CGI in a movie.

Because the Genesis sequence in Star Trek II beat it to theatres by a month. :)

If not the first CGI sequence used in a movie, the Stained Glass Knight at least has the distinction of being the first CGI character.

[catnipman]

“I still don’t get why 1982’s Tron doesn’t get the distinction of first CGI in a movie.”

because the graphics of Tron were so pathetic that they would have been better off just doing claymation?