How it feels coming over to Lemmy
The Master Control Program is dead.
The Master Control Program is dead.
The CGI in this movie, being from 1982, is fucking astounding. It looks better than a lot of CGI from the 90's and early 2000's. I used to think it was practical effects and camera tricks growing up, and it blew my mind they actually used CGI.
It's more like animation than CGI, really. It looks great.
I think the only real CGI was the bike scene, with the background grid.
I just checked Wiki and surprisingly there is 15-20 minutes of CGI in Tron. Basically anything that contains a vehicle (light bikes, tanks, recognizers etc) or anything that contains a patterned computer background.
If I remember correctly, Tron was refused any kind of animation Oscar because they used computers and that was considered cheating.
Those flying vehicle things are CGI. That's why it blew my mind. I thought those were real models and then post processed, but they're fully computer generated.
Screenshots are from the most amazing Tron film from 1982, if you're wondering.
It's definitely worth a watch for the visuals alone. That said, I found it paid off immensely more once I watched the excellent Tron Legacy right after and caught all the lovingly rendered homages and nods to the original. If it helps, the original has music done by the queen of 80's synth, and then legacy has motherfucking Daft Punk doing everything they do best and even showing that they can do orchestra as well as they do EDM.
Damn good series. End of line.
It's also worth it to watch Tron: Uprising afterwards. Worth a watch in my opinion, even though it was canceled.
The movie? I've loved it since I saw it as a 16 y/o when it was brand new. It's still around and still great, IMO.
Lemmy is like a daily edition of the newspaper, you either read it with your morning dump or before you go to bed, but either way, you feel like you got your money's worth when you've read the vast majority of the days postings and commented on half of them.