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A 1985 film had a fully computer made character
The stained glass knight in Young Sherlock Holmes was rendered by computer Industrial Light and Magic created a knight made of stained glass for Young Sherlock Holmes in 1985, the first character in a feature film built and animated entirely by computer. It appears for only a few seconds. The same team went on to make the computer-generated water creature in The Abyss four years later. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A 1985 film had a fully computer made character: the short answers
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- The stained glass knight in Young Sherlock Holmes was rendered by computer. The figure is taken from Industrial Light and Magic, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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