In 1985 the BBC inteviewed pseudo-CGI entity Max Headroom in real-time
The high point of the pseudo-CGI genre
Max Headroom, the deranged 1980s faux-CGI, faux-AI TV presenter, was and is often mistaken as a true computer graphic creation. At Cartoon Brew (more than a decade ago!), Neil Emmet centered Max in the fading phenomenon of pseudo-CGI, where effects experts sought to convincingly portray unattainably advanced computer performance. This was typically done…
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