CGI

computer-generated images/computer-generated imagery: digital graphics used in visual media, often in the form of 3D animation.

Origin of CGI

First recorded in 1970–75

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Examples from the Web for cgi

So in the cutting room, we got a plate of a horse and put a CGI guy getting on him.
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You think about a movie like that getting made now, they would probably just use a lot of CGI for your costume.
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It also must have diminished significantly the CGI budget, as well as removed an intolerable amount of background noise.
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The film opens with a CGI recreation of the flood, featuring aerial shots of the devastation, filmed in stark black-and-white.
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Based in Montreal, CGI was started by founder and executive chairman Serge Godin in 1976 when Godin was 26.
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British Dictionary definitions for cgi

CGI

abbreviation for

computer-generated image or imagery

common gateway interface

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Word Origin and History for cgi

cgi

by 2004, initialism for computer-generated imagery.

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