Computer Animation became a viable commercial possibility with the announcement of the SC4020 microfilm recorder. Within the period 1962 to 1966 sufficient computer-generated films were created that demonstrated that this was a new novel way of producing animation vastly different from the established process.

This part of the website describes the SC4020 and demonstrates what was possible in this new media.

Well over 100 papers were published in the period 1964-1975 concerning early attempts at computer animation predominantly using the SC4020 early on. An index of over 100 papers from this period is available that links to mainly HTML versions of these papers.

A paper by Alan Kitching titled Computer Animation: Answer or Problem? in December 1971 gives a good snapshot of what had been achieved by 1971.

This section also contains some papers on computer animation from the book Computer Animation edited by John Halas.