William Fetter, also known as William Alan Fetter or Bill Fetter (March 14, 1928June 23, 2002), was an American
graphic designer and pioneer in the field of
computer graphics. He explored the perspective fundamentals of
computer animation of a
human figure from 1960 on and was the first to create a human figure as a
3D model. The
First Man was a pilot in a short 1964 computer animation, also known as
Boeing Man and now as
Boeman by the
Boeing company. Fetter preferred the term "Human Figure" for the pilot. In 1960, working in a team supervised by Verne Hudson, he helped coin the term
Computer graphics. He was
art director at the Boeing Company in
Wichita.