A senior investment banking executive with a focus on the life science market, Steve Kanzer has served as chairman and CEO of New York City’s Accredited Ventures since 2001. Outside of his professional environment, Steve Kanzer maintains an interest in the field of computer animation.
Unlike traditional forms of animation, computer animation uses digital technology and computer hardware/software to produce the illusion of movement. Industry historians trace the birth of computer animation back to the early 1960s and a then-unknown student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ivan Sutherland developed the first graphical user interface as part of his doctoral thesis, Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communications System. In short, Mr. Sutherland created the first software that allowed a person to draw an image directly onto a computer display using a special type of pen.
Finalized in 1963, the Sketchpad program was originally conceived as a general-purpose system that could be employed to draw pictures for a range of mechanical, mathematical, and scientific applications. However, Mr. Sutherland soon noted that, in light of Sketchpad’s ability to incorporate motion into drawings, “it might be exciting to try making cartoons."
Unlike traditional forms of animation, computer animation uses digital technology and computer hardware/software to produce the illusion of movement. Industry historians trace the birth of computer animation back to the early 1960s and a then-unknown student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ivan Sutherland developed the first graphical user interface as part of his doctoral thesis, Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communications System. In short, Mr. Sutherland created the first software that allowed a person to draw an image directly onto a computer display using a special type of pen.
Finalized in 1963, the Sketchpad program was originally conceived as a general-purpose system that could be employed to draw pictures for a range of mechanical, mathematical, and scientific applications. However, Mr. Sutherland soon noted that, in light of Sketchpad’s ability to incorporate motion into drawings, “it might be exciting to try making cartoons."