"One of those two segments is perhaps the most ambitious and wildest thing The Simpsons has ever done. In the segment Homer³ (Homer Cubed), we see the famous cartoon father and husband leave his 2D dimension via a portal behind a bookcase and enter a 3D computer-generated landscape. What follows is about four minutes of a 3D, computer-generated Homer exploring an odd world filled with simple objects, random pools of water, and even the library from the game Myst."
"At one point while exploring this bizarre 3D world, Homer says, "Man, this place looks expensive. I feel like I'm wasting a fortune just standing here." And he wasn't joking. It was estimated that the four minutes of 3D animation seen in Treehouse of Horror VI cost "hundreds of thousands of dollars." However, Fox only paid Pacific Data Images-the CG studio behind the animation-a measly $6,000 for the work."
"Tim Johnson, the head of PDI's character animation group, broke the news to the company's founder, Carl Rosendahl. "Here's the good news: The Simpsons has this amazing script, and we can participate," said Johnson. "Carl just got up out of his chair and paced the room-he was so excited. I said, 'Well, here's the bad news: They don't have any money to pay for it.' So Carl sat back down and ran the numbers.""
On October 29, 1995, just over 12 million viewers watched The Simpsons episode that featured a four-minute 3D sequence in the Treehouse of Horror VI segment "Homer³". Homer leaves his 2D world through a bookcase portal and wanders a computer-generated landscape of simple objects, pools of water, and the Myst-like library. The 3D segment required early CGI techniques and functions as a time capsule of that era. Production estimates placed the four minutes' cost at hundreds of thousands of dollars, yet Fox paid Pacific Data Images only $6,000. Tim Johnson informed founder Carl Rosendahl, who ran the numbers. Ultimately, the company agreed to do the animation.
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