What is synthesis image? Where and when can we locate its origin? They are very intriguing questions, which I'd like to have exact answers for... But maybe we can get a general overview of the "problem". Synthesis image (or Computer Graphics) could be defined as the art of recreating things which don't exist; this implies, in certain way, "giving life", and that's what, in many occasions, the graphic artist does.

He/She has to represent, by using the available tools, which in this case are the computer and the design and render program, a concise scene. This is not an easy task most of the times. It requires, always that you want to do something of certain quality and taste, quite a big imagination and a great abstraction capacity, abilities I'd like to have sharper :-) . It's about creating from the emptyness an environment that looks real, although it doesn't exist, and even though the spectator knows it; one of the most important things is possibly that is comes out convincing. And that's something quite hard to achieve, though any graphic artist who is reading these words will know how gratifying is to end an animation or even a specially tough image...
Personally I think that in many fields the work of the graphic artist is underestimated, and believe me, I know what I am talking about... Many of you who are reading this, will know it, how frustrating is to work SO MUCH and SO HARD and then not being recognized what you've done... Well I guess this happens in so many jobs, don't you think? O:-)

The beginnings of synthesis image are beyond my knowledge, but you will agree with me that there is a KEY point in all this thing: The film TRON. This brings nostalgic memories to my mind, but putting them aside, TRON was a movie that opened a new era in Computer Graphics... Most of the story develops inside a supercomputer, with an extensive use of synthetic image... Of course, if you have a detailed look at it, you can notice they commited certain little errors here and there, but it's not necessary that I mention it, specially knowing that it was done in 1.982; to tell you the truth, I would have liked being there with the artists while they did the animations... :-)