At first, he is also disappointed by the microphone, but later finds a use for it in creating practical jokes, such as tricking Ned Flanders ' boys into believing that God is talking to them, listening in on Lisa and Janey's conversations about boys, and persuading Homer that martians are invading the Earth.

Stoat Muldoon ( Robert Stack )-Stoat Muldoon is an overly zealous alien hunter who discovers the martians on Earth several times throughout the series, but every time he has, the Martians have outwitted him and erased his memory.

The story told of the struggle of the first generation of genetic ' martians ' to free themselves from exploitation by Earth.

Welles used the village of Grover's Mill, New Jersey as the first landing site of the martians in his tale.

It does however have some inventive and original ideas, including an autopilot and collision detection device for Martian fliers, and the creation of the Lotharians, a race of ancient martians who have become adept at telepathic projection, able to create imaginary warriors that can kill, and sustain themselves through thought alone.

The commonland includes Horsell Common, which is notable for being the place where the martians landed in War of the Worlds, an Ancient Burial Ground and a Muslim Burial Ground.

* Hades: The final boss who, when defeated, is revealed to be a giant alien robot manipulated by martians.

** CGI animation

Developers of computer games and 3D video cards strive to achieve the same visual quality on personal computers in real-time as is possible for CGI films and animation.

Models fell out of use in filming in the 1990s as CGI became more affordable and practical, but even today, designers sometimes construct scale models which are then digitized for use in animation software.

However, audience reactions to action films containing significant amounts of CGI have been mixed, and films where computer animation is not believable are often met with criticism.

Based on the commercial success of Pixar's computer-generated animated films and other CGI fare ( especially Dreamworks ' Shrek, which contained numerous jabs at Katzenberg's former workplace and boss ), Disney came to believe that CGI was what the public wanted — so it ceased producing traditional two-dimensional animation after Home on the Range, and switched exclusively to CGI starting with 2005's Chicken Little.

This new form of animation soon dominated Hollywood special effects ; the films Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Jurassic Park included Oscar-winning special effects sequences which made extensive use of CGI.

While Disney had made the film Tron — which extensively mixed live action, traditional animation, and CGI — in 1982, and introduced the CAPS system to enhance traditional animation in 1990s The Rescuers Down Under, a completely computer-animated feature film had yet to be made.

At that time, the company primarily developed computer animation hardware, but had made a name for itself by producing such acclaimed CGI short films as Tin Toy, which won an Oscar.

Robert Zemeckis ' film The Polar Express, starring Tom Hanks in five roles, was completely CGI animation, but used performance capture technology to animate the characters.

And third: Neeson will appear in the 2-hour CGI film displayed on a 100-foot " animation wall " played throughout the show.

They are usually created with stop motion animation, though CGI, traditional animation, and live action films featuring plastic construction toys ( or representations of them ) are also usually considered brickfilms.

These are normally made using CGI animation.

In the 1990s, and early 2000s CGI advanced enough so that for the first time it was possible to create realistic 3D computer animation, although films had been using extensive computer images since the mid-70s.

The NFB was a pioneer in computer animation, releasing one of the first CGI films, Hunger, in 1974, then forming its Centre d ' animatique in 1980 to develop new CGI technologies.

A significant number of graduates have held key positions at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Don Bluth Productions, and Pixar Animation Studios, both for traditional and CGI animation.

In pre-rendered computer animation, such as CGI movies, realistic motion blur can be drawn because the renderer has more time to draw each frame.

Using high resolution still cameras, backgrounds can be easily shot for further use with live action and CGI character animation.

Originally, Marvel Films planned to make the backgrounds completely CGI while Spider-Man ' webslinged ' around New York, yet due to budget constraints were forced to use traditional cel based animation while occasionally using CGI backgrounds.

Many recent films have made use of 3ds Max, or previous versions of the program under previous names, in CGI animation, such as Avatar and 2012, which contain computer generated graphics from 3ds Max alongside live-action acting.

Star Trek: Voyager was also the first Star Trek TV show to eliminate the use of models for exterior space shots and exclusively use computer-generated imagery ( CGI ) instead.

Fett appears as a child in the CGI / animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Many live-action TV series ( especially science fiction TV series such as Babylon 5 ) invested heavily in CGI production, creating a heretofore-unavailable level of special effects for a relatively low price.

* Star Wars: The Clone Wars ( 2008 TV series ), a 2008 – Present CGI Animated series.

* Star Wars: The Clone Wars ( film ) – The 3D CGI animated feature film, that introduces the following 3D CGI animated TV series.

* Star Wars: The Clone Wars ( 2008 TV series ) – The 3D CGI animated TV series.

A live-action / CGI TV movie of The Tiger ’ s Apprentice, adapted by Finding Neverland writer David Magee, is currently being developed by Cartoon Network.

In 2010, he provided the voice of the CGI character Shen, a Chinese water dragon, for the groundbreaking BBC TV fantasy drama series Spirit Warriors.

** Digital Monster X-Evolution ( CGI animated TV movie, CGI provided by Imagi Animation Studios ) ( 2005 )

) It was later adapted into other films, including the CGI animated Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life, for which the bloopers were intentionally created, and in TV series including The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air and Home Improvement.

Father of the Pride is an American animated television series that began broadcasting on NBC on August 31, 2004 and was part of a short-lived trend of CGI series in prime-time network TV ( after UPN's Game Over ).

This room is lavishly themed, and presents the closed-captioned CGI walkthrough recreation on a high-definition TV.

Xcalibur is a CGI sword-and-sorcery TV story series set in a medieval-like kingdom.

" a CGI Firefly is on Batmite's TV.

* LightWave 3D ( NewTek ), first developed for the Amiga, was originally bundled as part of the Video Toaster package and entered the market as a low cost way for TV production companies to create quality CGI for their programming.