The work of the Whitney crew were pretty cool to watch since it was the beginning of computer aided images in film. The 2001: A.S.O. art was something I wasn't expecting to see, but it was definitely kind of groundbreaking for this class to see something used in actual widespread theatrical cinema.
IBM choosing to offer residency to John Whitney was quite the feather in his cap as he was the first to actually receive acceptance to do so regarding animation. He's got to be in the argument regarding the father of computer animation.
Whitney's film, Permutation (1966) was a beautiful collage of digital artistry. It actually kind of reminded me of the scene in Dumbo (1941) when our little elephant pal starting hallucinating pink elephants that morph from shape to shape mostly in shades of pink
Jordan Belson's films, that also used computer animation, were his way of expressing a meditative vibe. He used melodic music that seemed to match the actions of the pixels on screen. Allures (1961), Cosmos (1964), and Chakara (1967) were all very similar in motion and substance. They all seemed spacey and cosmic...it must have taken forever to produce such images on those archaic computers.
A couple shots from his films:
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