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.

Since the 1990s, computer generated imagery ( CGI ) has come to the forefront of special effects technologies.

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.

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.

Hollywood also avoided helicopter-related stunts for many years, until the CGI revolution of the 1990s made it possible to use digital versions.

Ravage is one of a very small number of Transformers to have featured in both the original Transformers series and its 1990s CGI successor, Beast Wars: Transformers.

Passive cooling, or a single fan mounted on the power supply, was sufficient for many desktop computer CPUs until the late 1990s ; since then, most have required CPU fans mounted on their heat sinks, due to rising clock speeds and power consumption.

According to Dan Gill, geological investigations in the early 1990s confirmed earlier observations that the high assault ramp consisted mostly of a natural spur of bedrock that required a ramp only high built atop it in order to reach the Masada defenses.

In the 1990s ( before Blu-ray Disc or HDTV ), when so-called " Sixteen-By-Nine " or " Widescreen " televisions offered a wider 16: 9 aspect ratio ( 1. 78 times the height instead of 1. 33 ), they allowed films made at 1. 66: 1 and 1. 85: 1 to fill most or all of the screen, with only small letterboxing or cropping required.

In the late 1990s Waterbird Parakites and Custom Chutes Inc, redesigned the original Gaskin design for the new marketplace that required the parasails to carry more weight ( double rides and triple rides ) but still ensure they could operate in the same operating conditions.

In 2005, mainland Tanzania ( i. e. not Zanzibar ) modified its licensing system for electronic communications, modelling it on the approach successfully pioneered in Malaysia in the late 1990s where traditional ' vertical ' licences ( right to operate a telecoms OR broadcasting network, and right to provide services on that network ) are replaced by ' horizontal ' licences ( right to operate a telecoms AND broadcasting network, but a separate licence required to provide services on that network ).

The city councils that were elected in the 1990s were unable to write a Local Coastal Plan ( LCP ) that preserved enough public access to satisfy the California Coastal Commission, as required by the California Coastal Act.

In the late 1990s, Basilio became seriously ill, and he required triple bypass heart surgery.

Since the 1990s, incoming students are required to participate in the TCNJ First Year Experience, a large component of the liberal arts curriculum at TCNJ.

By the dawn of the 1990s, it was clear that further modernisation was required.

Since the late 1990s, all Guards are provided with two-way radios so that they can communicate with the Loco pilot, and other trains if required.

( Until deregulation in the 1990s they were also required for commercial domestic radio and television broadcast systems.

A new type of shoot ' em up emerged in the early 1990s: variously termed " bullet hell ", " manic shooters " and " maniac shooters ", these games required the player to dodge overwhelming numbers of enemy projectiles and called for still faster reactions from players.

The current stadium design stems from the early 1990s when it was extensively redeveloped to become a modern all-seater venue in accordance with the Taylor Report, which required British football stadia to provide seating for all those attending.

For example, in the early 1990s long form paid programming in Canada was required to consist only of photographs without moving video.

In the late 1990s, a position of community magistrate was created for district courts on a trial basis ; two community magistrates were initially required to sit to consider a case.

The club's members persistently refused to allow female membership well into the 1990s, with club ballots on the change unable to attract the two-thirds majority amongst the membership required for implementation.

Brake vans were still required on trains carrying dangerous chemicals until the late 1990s.

With the advent of GPS, the effort required to accurately determine one's position has decreased by orders of magnitude, so the entire field has experienced a revolutionary transition since the 1990s with traditional navigation tasks being phased out.

Through a complicated arrangement, NAR sets the policies for most of the Multiple Listings Services, and in the late 1990s, with the growth of the Internet, NAR evolved regulations allowing Internet Data Exchanges ( IDX ) whereby brokers would allow a portion of their data to be seen on the Internet via brokers ' or agents ' websites and Virtual Office Websites ( VOW ) which required potential buyers to register to obtain information.

The agency needs money because it is required to pay developers $ 16 million in installments by 2015 to settle a legal dispute over a doomed residential project dating to the 1990s.

After a spike in air ambulance crashes in the United States in the 1990s, the U. S. government and the Commission on Air Medical Transportation Systems ( CAMTS ) stepped up the accreditation and air ambulance flight requirements, ensuring that all pilots, personnel, and aircraft meet much higher standards than previously required.

By the early 1990s traffic using the ferry had increased, and an increase in capacity was required to cope.

Following the success of the club under Martin O ' Neill during the later part of the 1990s, an expanded stadium was required for higher attendances and to provide better facilities.

This is illustrated well by the four steps required to design a Balanced Scorecard included in Kaplan & Norton's writing on the subject in the late 1990s, where they assert four steps as being part of the Balanced Scorecard design process:

As recently as the late 1990s it was rather run-down ; it underwent a controversial gentrification in recent years ( in conjunction with the development of the nearby University Park at MIT ), and continues to grow more expensive.

In the 1990s soap operas were no longer able to go on expensive location shoots overseas as they had in the 1980s.

For most of the 1990s and early 2000s, driving in Boston was disrupted by the Big Dig, the most expensive ( roughly $ 14 billion ) road project in the history of the United States.

For several years during the dotcom boom of the late 1990s, commercial real estate on Sand Hill Road was more expensive than almost anywhere else in the world.

Since their apex during the late 1980s to mid 1990s high technology fad, digital watches have mostly become simpler, less expensive time pieces with little variety between models.

The first attempt at a handheld game console with touchscreen controls was Sega's intended successor to the Game Gear, though the device was ultimately shelved and never released due to the expensive cost of touchscreen technology in the early 1990s.

World in Action was hard-hitting but resulted in expensive, libel trials when wrong accusations were made in the 1990s.

During the early 1990s, tricycle rickshaws became an expensive and popular mode of transportation for tourists over short distances.

CD-ROM changers existed in the early 1990s as expensive external drives, often connecting through SCSI interfaces.

In the 1990s many high tech manufacturing plants and expensive housing developments began to appear in the area around the lake.

In common with other car manufacturers, the early 1990s saw Vauxhall featuring safety as a selling point, and beginning to incorporate many new safety features into cheaper family cars that were previously only found on expensive luxury saloons.

Bearings with ceramic balls ( and races ) have been available since the late 1990s, They are lighter and longer lasting, however significantly more expensive.

In the second half of the 1990s, the neighborhood saw an influx of yuppies and an explosion of expensive retail boutiques and trendy restaurants and bars.

Videoconferencing systems throughout the 1990s rapidly evolved from very expensive proprietary equipment, software and network requirements to a standards based technology that is readily available to the general public at a reasonable cost.

In the 1980s and the 1990s, with land in nearby Brisbane becoming fully developed, and very expensive for housing, many new large scale housing estates became attractive for buyers in Ipswich with lower prices and bigger lots.

Beginning with Daytime on Media General-owned station WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida in the early 2000s, a new format featuring the structure of a traditional locally produced daytime show with the usual format of light talk, health features, beauty tips and recipe segments which was popular up to the early 1990s when expansion of newscasts became a much less expensive, more dependable form of revenue came into use.

Additionally, as central Oradea became more expensive and densely populated in the 1990s, Vie became an attractive residential area for the city's higher-income population sectors.

During the 1980s and 1990s bolo ties, some elegant and expensive, were sold in Japan, Korea, and China.

During the 1990s VHS era, before the common availability of hybrid DVDs, anime distributors released anime via subtitled or dubbed tapes with the subtitled editions being noticeably more expensive than the dubs which were expected to sell better.

Since the late 1990s, the Gillette model has proven very popular and successful for inkjet printer manufacturers, where profit is derived from the sale of expensive ink cartridges.

Other figures have been seen historically, and starting in the 1990s again became more common in the more expensive " gourmet " varieties of king cake.

Two people were killed in the mid 1990s and an exhaustive and expensive investigation by the FBI coupled with intense national media interest in the story resulted in the identification and arrest of the perpetrator Theodore Kaczynski, who was sentenced to life in prison.

Having established itself as a thriving commuter town, the 1990s saw the building of larger and more expensive housing, aimed at more affluent property buyers.

An early attempt at a handheld game console with touchscreen controls was Sega's intended successor to the Game Gear, though the device was ultimately shelved and never released due to the expensive cost of touchscreen technology in the early 1990s.