<Tr> <Td> The Works </Td> <Td> 1982 </Td> <Td> The New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab premiered a trailer at SIGGRAPH for their CGI project . This would have been the first feature - length CGI film, but it was never completed . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan </Td> <Td> ILM computer graphics division develops "Genesis Effect", the first use of a fractal - generated landscape in a film . Bill Reeves leads the Genesis Effect programming team, and creates a new graphics technique called "Particle Systems". </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Tron </Td> <Td> First extensive use (15 minutes fully computer generated) of 3D CGI including the famous Light Cycle sequence . Also includes very early facial animation (for the Master Control Program). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Golgo 13 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> First animated film to incorporate CGI sequences . Entirely digital models of revolvers, skeletons, helicopters, and skyscrapers (created by Toyo Links Corporation and Osaka University's CG division) are used in the film's title sequence and part of the climax; the remainder of the film is traditionally animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha . </Td> </Tr>

What was the first disney movie to use cgi