Hubert's Brain, made in 2001, is the first computer

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-generated film

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 made by San Francisco

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 digital media

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 company Wild Brain

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. The movie is 17 minutes long, took one year and $3,000,000 to produce, and won the 2001 Annie Award

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 for Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Short Subject. It tells the story of a science geek who befriends a talking brain-in-a-jar.

Hubert's Brain was produced by Nina Rappaport, directed by Phil Robinson

Phil Robinson

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 and Gordon Clark

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, and written by Brian Narelle and Robin Steele.

Credited voices include: Jonathan Harris

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, Peter Falk

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, Bruce Campbell

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, J.D. Daniels, Charles Howerton, and Gerri Lawlor

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