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'Money for Nothing' Wasn't the First CGI Music Video — But It's the One That Changed Everything
Everyone remembers the blockhead movers from 1985. Almost nobody remembers the two animators behind them, or that their next act was the first all-CGI TV series in history.
First, let’s kill the myth
Ask anyone to name the first computer-animated music video and you’ll get the same answer: Dire Straits, “Money for Nothing,” 1985. The blocky delivery guys. The floating dog. “I want my MTV.”
Wrong, and the real story is better.