Angelina Jolie's CGI character was not the first
Angelina Jolie's motion-captured Thraxa in 2004 was a CGI milestone, but not the first computer-generated character in film history, despite its impact on visual effects.
Angelina Jolie voiced Thraxa in 2004's 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,' a groundbreaking role often mistakenly cited as the first computer-generated character in film. While Thraxa was a photorealistic, human-like CGI figure seamlessly integrated into live-action using motion capture, earlier examples exist.
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