1994 Impulse Imagine 3D Animation Siggraph Demo 

My first 3D software. Love it!!

I love the vibe that all Old cgi animated videos have.

I found an obit for Mike Halvorson.MICHAEL HALVORSON Feb. 9, 1951-Oct. 7, 2015 Michael Charles Halvorson lost his battle with kidney disease and diabetes Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015. Michael and his wife, Denise, moved to Las Vegas, from Minneapolis in 1998 and was happy to have his sons and two of his brothers join him in the new community. His "bigger than life" personality fit right in. He was lucky to have a life of many colors. As a young man, he taught theatre for Hill Murray High School in St. Paul, Minn., and spent many years in community theatre, moving on to the computer and software arena. He was a pioneer in the software industry, introducing many important programs in the area of 3D design, like Imagine, Illusion and, most recently, for the 3D printing world, Eureka. From 2007--2012, Michael was the head coach for the Las Vegas Demolition, a semi-pro football team owned by Mike Jr. The unlikely pastime became a passion for him. He coached the Demolition to two league championships and one national championship. In 2011, he was honored with a Coach of the Year award by the WWFL. He was preceded in death by his parents, Velva Oleta Wright and Vernon Charles Halvorson. He is survived by his wife, of 41 years, Denise Zezza Halvorson; their two sons, Alan Stocker and his partner, Brynn Streiker, and Michael Halvorson Jr., and his wife, Katie; grandchildren, Phillip, Jaxsen, Lacey, Piper and Aksel; brothers, Arville, and his wife, Bonnie, Larry and his wife, Becky, and James and his wife, Lyn; in-laws, Nancy, Robert and Jack Zezza; as well as many nieces, nephews and extended family. Mike dearly loved his four-legged kids, too, and always had a house full. There will be a celebration of Michael's life 2-5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, outdoors in the gardens, at the home he loved so.

Wow, brings back great memories. I started using Imagine in 1993. Starting with building rendered mazes and dungeons inspired by AD&D Eye of the Beholder (remember that Amiga classic?). Although I'm using Windows 10 these days, the only time in my life I was truly happy and in awe of the digital creative industry was during the Amiga heyday. Those were glorious times rife with possibility with fantastic community support.

Real nostalgic tears comin thru my eyes. Just beatiful.

AWWESOME Times I had an amiga1200 back then andcame across Imagine 3D as a giveaway on the cover of one of their monthly mags and i totally loved it abut the best thing is the program was fantastic. it even had nodes. Great days.

I have envy of amiga users,even was for short time, they touch the future....

Thanks for posting, never saw a show reel for Imagine back in the day.

Ah yes, I remember this. Stuck with Lightwave in the end since its development seemed more promising/persistent. Good memories nonetheless. Thanks for uploading.

I got started with Sculpt/Animate, but when Imagine came out it was amazing.

Remembering my first ever 3d editor Organica)

A timeless song.

Yes. It went to Windows back in 1995 I believe on got very rock solid.

In December 14 2023, i made a animatinon in my channel, Happy 30 aniversary Animation Siggraph

4:40 Utah teapot!

I could hardly believe that this is 28 years old. This was 16 years old when this was uploaded

oh man - the textures... the textures... what the hell were we thinking? I think I even watched this at Siggraph. It was cutting edge stuff bcak then (most of it anyway).

@MarabuFx This is good fun. Thanks for posting or Imagine animation!

I only stopped using it b/c it no longer runs in my Windows enviroment(7 64Bit). I just bought myself Lightwave. Shame really, it was a powerful tool I made many animations with, mostly B5 stuff. RIP Imagine, I will miss you >.

"Enter the future today" If only they can see how far the technology went nowadays.

Imagine the whole family sitting around a computer in this day and age, it’ll never happen 😅

I wonder how long it took to render these

In 1995, at work, I was using Softimage 3D on an SGI Indigo 2 Extreme workstation in the medical visualization field. But at home I used IFW (Imagine For Windows) because there was no way I could afford an SGI for personal use. 😆

looks better than fallout 4

Anyone knows where i can download this software?

epic

Some of that is very impressive for 1994. I'm sure even LW and 3dsmax weren't able to do some of the effects done here, back then.

Is there a way to work with this old software and make things that look like this but using modern tech so you can go without having to wait weeks on each render?

So why exatly did the Imagine die? It was really popular back then.

@aggienostic do you know if there's any way to get it these days? i tried a while back with zero ...

runs fine under windows 7 64bit, I do, and so does it under 8 I believe...

i love Imagine, i used to use it all the time! do you know if it ever went to windows? my version was for DOS, and it was very buggy..

And a decade later video games on the PlayStation 2 can animate stuff like this.

Music?

Better than the 87 wave front demo huzzah

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Where can I download

It was done in 3D Studio Max(now 3ds MAX), Release 2

Atari ST: Power without the price. Amiga: Price without the power. HEHEHEHEHE.

Wierd.

Ugly. Compare to real3d or lighrwave or softimage..

Yet another piece of proprietary software which was wonderful and amazing for its time, but which is now dead and gone, beyond all hope of revival. *Yawn* Don’t waste your time on nostalgia; look at what’s available now, and don’t make the same mistake again.

God, they really knew their shit when it came to the music. Orbital is so good

Man, I'd love to work with this early form of 3D animation... Could get some real retro renders!

Does the 90s computers still work in 2020?

I spoke with Mike Halvorson the other day--the chief architect of Imagine and owner of Impulse, Inc. He mentioned that there's still a very active Imagine community in Europe.

Fun to watch and realize how far computer animation has come. Still use Imagine 2.1.9 for 3d imaging for some graphics applications. Runs great on my Win 7 machine.

Yes. This was my introduction to Imagine as well. I just used it again recently to destroy a house in MALICE: The Web Series episode 10. Also used it to create the creepy hand in the toilet in Episode 2 here on RU-vid. If interested search: MaliceDownUnder

damn this has a serious vibe...

I run a fan site that has been up since 2004, its available at imagine3d and bursts with small spouts of activity once in a while :D sine I am not allowed to add a website here, search for it on google or go to the org address

the quick transition from the mall to Stonehenge made me think

For me it was all Amiga Format demo disk that kicked me off. Loving the track.

Bellissimo! :)

Pffft! This 3D is way ahead of its time

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I have been looking for an early CGI short animation since my childhood and so far I haven't found it. So, I'm wondering if anyone in the comments has seen it and/or has it: It's an action story where a group of knights with chess piece-looking helmets try to storm a castle with a wizard inside. The wizard summons a big, bug like monster with claws. The monster fights the knightas and decapitates them with its claws. The last shot is a knight raising his sword into the air and lightning striking it. If anyone has any info on this video, you would make my childhood extremely happy.

4:20 :D

This is such a perfect fever dream

great demo! any higher resolutions by any chance? yes, i know, back then 480 was the highest resolution for broadcast, wasn` it? :-)

this looks so bad, someone give these people a 1070ti for gods sake