James Cameron is one of the most influential directors in computer-generated imagery (CGI). He helped pioneer CGI techniques like creating realistic water. His films Titanic and Avatar used extensive CGI and helped popularize its use in major motion pictures. Avatar had an estimated budget of $500 million and grossed over $2 billion worldwide, showing how CGI could be used on an ambitious scale.

1. “Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will
revolutionize the way we learn.”
Steve Jobs, 1955–2011
Engineer, Industrialist, Guru

2. Prepared by Danielle Oser, APR

4. One of the most influential directors in the field of CGI is
James Cameron.

5. One of Cameron’s first sci-fi attempts
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4y2yh_xenogenesis-1978-
directed-by-james_shortfilms#.UN4M3bZ8vuw

6. Cameron served as a model maker for this movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksJTPdNNQB4

7. Created the first realistic water using CGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJyRF0Fzl9Y

8. Cameron’s “King of the World” movie – Titanic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCy5WQ9S4c0

9.  Several groups of
professionals may lose
business if CGI
technology replaces
actors in movies
 Agents, actors, stunt
personnel, prop people,
makeup artists, and
caterers.

10. Helped to “wake up” Hollywood to the power of CGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eajuMYNYtuY

11. Behind the Scenes of Avatar (2009)

12. One of Cameron’s most ambitions and expensive CGI projects –
$500 million to make = $2 billion worldwide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1_JBMrrYw8

14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvqpFbRKtQ
George Lucas started Industrial Light and Motion during the
filming of Star Wars.

15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efV2wqEjEY
The movie Tron should have propelled the field of CGI except
for the fact that it was a box office bomb.

16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_xpFZe20A

17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFMLGEHdIjE
Total Recall is the last major motion picture to use models for
special effects.

18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bim7RtKXv90

19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_SfrHHBAc&feature=iv&
annotation_id=annotation_24492

20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bzqHbTD64w

21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7YllAOqpF4

22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw4BKd6p5m0&feature=fv
st

23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RuAlyNclck
Behind the Scenes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GClFIhQ4n8

24. Arthur C. Clark

25. http://research.microsoft.com/en-
us/um/people/gbell/tcmwebpage/marketing/posterhistoryofcomputers1975.jpg

26. First calculator – used to predict astronomical positions

27. The British inventor who designed what he called a “difference
engine”

28. 1st computer programmer – wrote the instructions for Babbage’s
engine and foresaw the machine had capabilities beyond
calculations
Also coins the word “Artificial Intelligence”

29. Punch-card calculator

30. First Automatic Electronic Digital Computer
ABC pioneered important elements of modern computing,
including binary arithmetic and electronic switching elements,
but its special-purpose nature and lack of a changeable, stored
program distinguish it from modern computers.

31. The first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-
complete, digital, and capable of being reprogrammed to solve
"a large class of numerical problems"

32. Created a visual display

33. Last room-sized computer that used vacuum tubes

34. Early warning defense system one of the first to use a monitor

35. Semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic
signals and electrical power.
The transistor is the fundamental building block of modern
electronic devices, and is ubiquitous in modern electronic
systems.

36. Use transistors for added speed and reliability
Jack Kilby’s idea to link transistors on a circuit board made it
possible to build cheaper, smaller computers.

37. Started a company that later became IBM
Invents the 1st electric calculator to count and sort census data
from punch cards

38. Oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to
1956. Watson developed IBM's distinctive management style and
corporate culture, and turned the company into a highly-effective selling
organization, based largely around punched card tabulating machines.
A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his
time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956.[

39. “The greatest capitalist in history" and one of "100 most
influential people of the 20th century“
Tom Jr. took the company in a new direction, hiring electrical
engineers by the hundreds and putting them to work designing
mainframe computers

40. Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft

41. This amateur device led Bill Gates and Paul Allen to form
Microsoft to create a program to understand commands from a
user

43. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/

44. The technical genius behind Apple Computers was Steve
Wozniak
The marketing wizard behind Apple Computers was Steve Jobs.

45. http://www.designverb.com/wp-
content/images/2007/06/apple_evolution.jpg

46. Sold 175 @ $500 each

48. Changed the game for visual communicators by making
Desktop Publishing a reality

49. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I

52. More than 300,000 sold the first day

54. Refers to the physical devices used to store programs
(sequences of instructions) or data (e.g. program state
information) on a temporary or permanent basis for use in a
computer or other digital electronic device

55. A central processing unit (CPU) is the hardware within a
computer that carries out the instructions of a computer
program by performing the basic arithmetical, logical, and
input/output operations of the system.

56. Connect cords between CPU and other devices
USB – Ethernet - Telephone

57. Send data to the CPU

58. Vital to Visual Communicators

59. Violent Themes
Sexual Themes
Image Manipulation

60. The first interactive computer game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmvb4Hktv7U

61. 1st Arcade Game – Helped Launch Atari
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhdu2Jh9cuc

62. Plugs into your TV to play Table Tennis game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2EIsnr_cv4

63. Computer game originally in 1971 was designed to teach school children about
the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player
assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers
Designed to encourage adoption of the Apple IIe
PLAY THE GAME:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/mindrevelation/oregon-trail

64. Pass Play On The Madden Football Game, 1990
Pass Play On The Madden Football Game, 2013

66. http://www.complex.com/video-games/2014/03/the-25-most-
violent-video-games/madworld

67. http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/26/tech/gaming-
gadgets/controversial-violent-video-games/

68. More realistic violent games were created
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qAPbXNq0dc

69. Doom, Quake

70. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XorJfexzF4M

72. Violent games were established as popular and lucrative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tshPSxS9dGY

74. http://www.axisanimation.com/index.php?id=1027&loc=Stuart
%20Aitken

75. http://www.commonsensemedia.org/game-lists

76. One of the 1st sex-oriented games

78. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCxFGxqLsHE

80. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzCXzlL8xkE

81. Dirt Devil with Fred Astaire, 1989

83. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpOvzGiheOM
All Mac vs. PC ads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEG5LVXdKo

84. Logos are representative of their founding fathers

85. Paul Rand

86. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWZrfkVo8rY
2001: A Space Odyssey was the first major motion picture to use
computer graphic effects.

87. The Matrix, 1999

88. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8e-FF8MsqU

90. Trends to Watch

91. Online multi-player games grow in popularity

94. http://mozy.com/#slide-5

95. https://www.khanacademy.org/

96. https://www.udacity.com/

97. https://www.coursera.org/

98. http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

99. http://www.apple.com/apps/itunes-u/?cid=wwa-us-kwg-
features-com&siclientid=6381&sessguid=e35818a1-3f58-491f-
9660-1c5c36f22500&userguid=e35818a1-3f58-491f-9660-
1c5c36f22500&permguid=e35818a1-3f58-491f-9660-1c5c36f22500

101. Wearable Computer With An Optical Head-mounted Display
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4