Hey by any chance to you or your mom have any SIGGRAPH 1995 cd rom, apparently the lost pilot of jimmy neutron called Johnny Queasar was shown at the convension and the whole 40 second pilot might be on that disc.
For anyone who wants to know, the music from most of this video comes from a De Wolfe production library album called Future Persepctives, by Anthony Hobson. Content ID was right that the video has a De Wolfe library song playing, but it sucks they don't have Topic channels for production libraries.
6 years later but so funny how i opened up a vaporwave playlist on soundcloud, started reading some comments and then saw ur comment. like u were reading my mind from 6 years ago. love vaporwave and have for years but i also respect the og's. you a real one man.
To this day it seems to be a powerful system. Rendering the amount of polygons they say for around 10 minutes is very impressive for the time frame! If I got my hands on one, I would totally learn the software and do some animations with it. Thanks for posting.
Amazing that this was the technology back then. And this program also helped inspire Photoshop as John Knoll was working in ILM and noticed how expensive it was to edit images and lucky for him his brother was playing around with an image editor he made that was far less costly and would work on cheaper machines. John saw the potential and urged his brother to improve it into something more powerful and versatile. It eventually became Photoshop.
These were too expensive even for the government to deploy in large numbers; they eventually made less than three hundred of them. The largest installation was at Disney where they were used in the CAPS digital animation system.
Ok so pixar made computers but what is i pixar file. I was using Photoshop and was turning a psd to a jpeg and found a pixar file. What is a pixar file
@kmbrady42 I do know that 0:00-1:49 is a soundtrack called "Vega" by Anthony Hobson, but would you happen to know what the names of the soundtracks in this video are? I find them nice, especially since 80s music is one of my favorites of all time! Each soundtrack is really catchy!
@@kmbrady Don’t worry about it! Thanks anyway! I forgot to add in my previous comment, this is a really cool video, so thanks for uploading it to TH-cam!
Technically these aren't workstations themselves, they are image processors. To use a Pixar Image Computer, you would feed it your data via a contemporary Sun or SGI workstation. The Sun or SGI would provide the actual display output of the rendered data, the PIC is just like a headless supercomputer in a little box.
All together, Pixar built and sold ~300 of the original Pixar Image Computer and the Pixar II - that's a combined total of ~300 machines. The ones that were sold to the government and defense contractors have almost certainly all been scrapped by now, likewise Disney is not exactly sentimental on a corporate level, so theirs are likely history as well. The other major client bases were universities and research facilities, and I mean "major" in as much as a dozen or two sales counts as "major" when the total units sold was ~300... So to answer your question, how many in existence? Thirty-five years ago there were a couple hundred, but today, perhaps a dozen. I know of a few in museum collections, I imagine somewhere out there, maybe in a university basement or a retired scientist's Palo Alto garage, there might be a small handful still out there, forgotten and collecting dust...
From what I've read, Pixar uses its own proprietary hard/software for their material. Future incarnations of the Image Computer seemed to have run on a UNIX-based system.
@@JordanBahrPian-UkePlayer Pixar after the Image Computer, migrated to Silicon Graphics UNIX workstations, and probably even Amiga (not sure, maybe was Dreamworks to use Amigas)
If he hadn't, we wouldn't have Pixar at all, considering they were just the Lucasfilm Computer Division until Steve Jobs bought it and they spun off as Pixar. And it also means we wouldn't have Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., The Incredibles, and the rest of Pixar's legendary catalog!
pretty wild how few of those Pixar computers sold, how expensive they were and that Steve Jobs burned $50Mio on this tech until the Pixar hardware and software acitvities were closed down without a trace….of course the aninmation side rescued everything
Wow, this Pixar company looks like it's going places.
Even after Pixar had stopped making image computers, it's still on top of its game!
True... But it wasn't easy back in 1988.
JUst like that other fruit company that sells apples.
Thank you so much for this video! It's ridiculous how it only has 50 views.
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Not anymore now there’s 61480.
i like ur channel
72,000 views now. :)
Glad you like it! Found it in a collection of tapes from my Mom. She probably picked it up at a SIGGRAPH conference back in the 80's.
Hey by any chance to you or your mom have any SIGGRAPH 1995 cd rom, apparently the lost pilot of jimmy neutron called Johnny Queasar was shown at the convension and the whole 40 second pilot might be on that disc.
Aidan Mauerman th-cam.com/video/bqLMz3rM7Jc/w-d-xo.html
@@rartedgamer I think "Johnny Quasar's" voice actor from that short by John A. Davis has actually been uploaded to TH-cam finally!
In 1988, The graphics were amazing! Pixar was the leader of graphics computers back in the day!
I think Disney is gonna buy this company someday.
Man, this Pixar thing looks amazing! I can imagine them making a bunch of hit movies with those types of graphics some day!
Finally, an entry-level computer under 30,000 dollars.
That first background music is so dope...
Found it - it's from a 1987 production music album called "Silicon Valley" (how original) and it's "Vega" by Anthony Hobson.
@@GrijzePilion Do you know the other musics from the video?
This video is better when you just listen to Vaporwave overtop of it.
absolutely
The existing background music already reminds me of Eco Virtual
For anyone who wants to know, the music from most of this video comes from a De Wolfe production library album called Future Persepctives, by Anthony Hobson. Content ID was right that the video has a De Wolfe library song playing, but it sucks they don't have Topic channels for production libraries.
6 years later but so funny how i opened up a vaporwave playlist on soundcloud, started reading some comments and then saw ur comment. like u were reading my mind from 6 years ago. love vaporwave and have for years but i also respect the og's. you a real one man.
To this day it seems to be a powerful system. Rendering the amount of polygons they say for around 10 minutes is very impressive for the time frame! If I got my hands on one, I would totally learn the software and do some animations with it. Thanks for posting.
the best computer that is (technically) part of NeXT and lead to the NeXT Cube
Super computer of 1988 = 1.5 GHz with 2 GB of RAM
2 gb, 1.5ghz in 1988, yeah that's impossible
that music. let the v a p o r flow freely
I Like How They Started Making Old Pixar Animation.
I’d love to play around with one of these
Amazing that this was the technology back then. And this program also helped inspire Photoshop as John Knoll was working in ILM and noticed how expensive it was to edit images and lucky for him his brother was playing around with an image editor he made that was far less costly and would work on cheaper machines. John saw the potential and urged his brother to improve it into something more powerful and versatile. It eventually became Photoshop.
This is a cool video!
This Was Made Before Toy Story
Where's the flat earthers? I figured they'd be here in the comments by now.
Spherical earth images are all CGI.
@Marcus Cook Good joke.
These were too expensive even for the government to deploy in large numbers; they eventually made less than three hundred of them. The largest installation was at Disney where they were used in the CAPS digital animation system.
is Toy Story Cars Vice Versa made on the Pixar computer??? please answer
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And 40 Years later you can buy a low end smartphone with the same amount of computepower.
Ok so pixar made computers but what is i pixar file.
I was using Photoshop and was turning a psd to a jpeg and found a pixar file. What is a pixar file
@kmbrady42
I do know that 0:00-1:49 is a soundtrack called "Vega" by Anthony Hobson, but would you happen to know what the names of the soundtracks in this video are? I find them nice, especially since 80s music is one of my favorites of all time! Each soundtrack is really catchy!
All the info I have is in the tape. Nothing on the case or the label that says anything about the music, sorry!
@@kmbrady Don’t worry about it!
Thanks anyway!
I forgot to add in my previous comment, this is a really cool video, so thanks for uploading it to TH-cam!
The second song is future perspectives.
@@beatlesfan-ej5rz oh great! Thx so much man!
Hoooooly crap! How long have we gone forward in computer technology since only 35 years. -----> 3:55 Daaaang!
Is it known if any of these original Pixar workstations are still around?
+doalwa Probably one or two around. Maybe more, but unknown, if they exist, they are around personal people's houses, or for profit, or for research
They sold fewer than 300 computers
One is in the Computer History Museum, and that’s all I know of
@@EpsilonDelta1 They cost a fortune then. Considering they sold fewer than 300, they must be priceless today.
Technically these aren't workstations themselves, they are image processors. To use a Pixar Image Computer, you would feed it your data via a contemporary Sun or SGI workstation. The Sun or SGI would provide the actual display output of the rendered data, the PIC is just like a headless supercomputer in a little box.
12-192 Megabytes of Image Memory for as low as $30,000?!? I'll take it!!!!!D
wonder how many watts that thing pulled >.>
Powerful machine! Where i can buy one?
371,000 dollars you're wallet is going to die
Apparently there’s only 300 of these machines in existence?
If that's the case, I do wonder where you could find them?
All together, Pixar built and sold ~300 of the original Pixar Image Computer and the Pixar II - that's a combined total of ~300 machines. The ones that were sold to the government and defense contractors have almost certainly all been scrapped by now, likewise Disney is not exactly sentimental on a corporate level, so theirs are likely history as well. The other major client bases were universities and research facilities, and I mean "major" in as much as a dozen or two sales counts as "major" when the total units sold was ~300...
So to answer your question, how many in existence? Thirty-five years ago there were a couple hundred, but today, perhaps a dozen. I know of a few in museum collections, I imagine somewhere out there, maybe in a university basement or a retired scientist's Palo Alto garage, there might be a small handful still out there, forgotten and collecting dust...
Pixar is using Mac's now and thier Renderman software.
Ironically, one of the Pixar's founder is Steve Jobs XD
@Sweatshirt I confirm, in their render farm they use Linux (it was installed in their Pentium 3 and on SGI Origin 200 systems in the past)
They use Windows for Designing the models
Do you know what os Pixar used on their computers?
From what I've read, Pixar uses its own proprietary hard/software for their material. Future incarnations of the Image Computer seemed to have run on a UNIX-based system.
@@JordanBahrPian-UkePlayer Pixar after the Image Computer, migrated to Silicon Graphics UNIX workstations, and probably even Amiga (not sure, maybe was Dreamworks to use Amigas)
SGI IRIX
1:43, is that a render from 1988? The fruits one...
yes. pixar were wildly ahead of the game.
Thumbs up if you are here because of the mysterious .pxr file format you can export from Photoshop..
I don't know if it's a real or A.I voice... 🤔
4:06 Do someone know the name of the music?
Sandstorm by Darude.
Visual Image by Anthony Hobson
wonder if George Lucas has any regrets for selling Pixar... oh right... he threw away Editdroid to Avid!
If he hadn't, we wouldn't have Pixar at all, considering they were just the Lucasfilm Computer Division until Steve Jobs bought it and they spun off as Pixar. And it also means we wouldn't have Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., The Incredibles, and the rest of Pixar's legendary catalog!
@@awesomej1107 how did you assume I had ownership with Pixar? "We" is an overused phrase.
pretty wild how few of those Pixar computers sold, how expensive they were and that Steve Jobs burned $50Mio on this tech until the Pixar hardware and software acitvities were closed down without a trace….of course the aninmation side rescued everything
And soon would end up gaining the attention to The Walt Disney Company and eventually became a division of Walt Disney Pictures.
Did the Pixar Imaging Computers have any influence on the NeXTcubes?
These graphics are crap. My computer is 900 dollars and can run all of this at 60 FPS with ultra settings.
30 years, eh? It's a long fucking time.
Oh really, its only been 30 damn years of technological advancements
this was high tech back in the day you idiot.
Oh my god, you were being serious. This is fucking 30 years old, you moron.
How old are you? And do you not understand the fact that the ability to make sharp 3D images when the public got 8-Bit is nothing short of incredible.
Ought to throw this dickhead in a time machine to 1976, might make him appreciate the advances in the Computer industry a bit more.