This friendly ghost beat Woody by six whole months.
Though, nowadays, computer-generated imagery, often simply called CGI, is commonplace in movies ranging from Disney’s Frozen to Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, this hasn’t always been the case. Not three decades ago, computer-generated special effects were still rare in movies, appearing only in highly experimental films or bona fide blockbusters such as Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park.
Casper’s computer-generated lead is, of course, not Ricci, but the titular friendly ghost, voiced by Malachi Pearson. Based on the cartoon character created in 1945 by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo, Casper was created by George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic and first brought to life through a complicated live storyboarding process.
How Was ‘Casper’ Animated? The amount of time required to complete just one scene of the movie is explained by the fact that, back in 1995, CGI was still very much in its infancy, and many of the amenities that exist nowadays were simply not yet in use. For instance, detailed previsualizations that allow filmmakers to envision the final result of a scene in which actors perform with non-existent CG characters or objects were still not a thing.
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