81. The movie, “Willow” uses CG technique to create a morphing sequence in a live action film.
82. Same year, Disney and Pixar develops the Computer Animation Paint System (CAPS) which wins the Academy Technical Award in 1992.
83. Same same year, Disney’s “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” mixes live action with animation. Walt would hardly believe the studio went from the Alice comedies to this… or actually, he would. He was wild that way.
84. Nearing the end of the 80’s, Pixar was already running RenderMan and using a not-yet-released software called Photoshop. Computer Graphics were in motion, still not widely understood, used, or affordable.
85. In 1990, “The Simpsons” began it’s long time run. Television being used to censorship may have been ripe and ready for it’s first swears. Bart and Homer are the first to throw “hell” and “damn” around as well as flash their butts.
86. One year later, following the birth of the Golden Age, Nickelodeon premiers the first original series made for basic cable. “Rugrats”, “Doug”, “Ren and Stimpy” were wildly successful creator driven shows. One even pulled in massive amounts of adult viewers for being gross and demented, opposite of the other two children-based shows.
87. Same year, over in feature Animation, 3D Graphics debuted in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast which is the first to present hand-drawn characters over a 3D background with the aid of Pixar.
88. Over in Independent Animation, Bill Plympton creates the first successful feature to be produced, directed, and animated by one person to appear in theatres. “The Tune” was created without a distributor, unlike the first non-successful one person feature, “Dirty Duck” who holds the afore title.
89. In 1992, The Cartoon Network is the first TV Network to offer animation 24 hours a day! (What happened? Sigh.)
90. In 1994, the first CG cartoon is released by Mainframe Entertainment, “Reboot.”