Computer graphics is a field which has touched almost every arena in human life be it entertainment, latest GUIs, medical field, aeronautics, and what not. All the applications are computer graphics based. Big data as a trending feature today has also got great impact on computer graphics. In this paper we will discuss how the concepts of big data have impacted the various applications based on computer graphics. What are the latest tools and technologies to handle computer graphics applications with big data, and what are the opportunities and challenges being faced when computer graphic applications deal with huge volumes of data called big data. After having read and analysed various research papers on big data and its applications, it is observed that data visualization is very important in order to analyse the results produced from big data processing.