Tron Legacy Trailer
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDiXNwZ_5N0[/ame]
edit: HD versions: http://www.flynnlives.com/media/video/0xendgame.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDiXNwZ_5N0[/ame]edit: HD versions: http://www.flynnlives.com/media/video/0xendgame.aspx
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I got a chance to meet and talk to one of the original tron artists a while back, some cool stories, they had like 100k frames to do in like 2-3 months, rather insane haha.
I patiently wait for that game tie in.
How was it cheesy though?
too bad it's the test/teaser from last year, I was hoping to hear what Daft Punk's take on the Tron music would be.
edit: yay, that's the Daft Punk Tron soundtrack in the background
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They look great before and after. And what would cliffs be doing in Tron anywho?
When he says "its just a game" I felt cheese. There was something off with the animation, just looked oddly keyed.
What is with the size of Jeff Bridges face/head in the final shot? It struck me as big the first time around, looks a little fat in this shot too. Fat head on a slim/trim rider kind of odd..
Overall, I like it, its pretty cool just a few hints of weirdness around the edges.
Its like the bodies are generic and the identities are downloaded into them. So it would be a virtual holo image of the identity in the helmet. Which again, makes perfect sense. (IMO)
I also interpreted the cliffs as the natural evolution of the Tron world with new technology. This isn't Tron then, this is Tron now. Also I think the cliffs are supposed to look unreal and technological.
Looks good. Want more.
The RL motorcycle feeling suits are kinda cool, but even if they do explain it i don't like the way the faces look in there.
The animation felt really nasty- esp in the part after he crashes and he slides off the cliff, it looks hand animated with Tarzan era Disney inflection. I can't say what it is, but the hand animation feels like a throwback to 2D. It really bugs me- esp. since mocap has a more authentic Tron/rotoscope feel.
I can't believe i just said I'd prefer mocap to well done hand animation, but in this case it would work better. The suits are rendered so realistically... the cartoony movement just bugs me. Goddammit Disney, don't fuck this up!
EDIT: whoops- was this just a really good animatic? fingers crossed
I think the guy in blue is an actual guy in a suit. The weird face is a projection screen for the guy in yellow as he was being controlled from the look out above.
Childhood nostalgia, obviously. There was absolutely nothing like this in the eighties and it captured our imagination at least as much as Star Wars (which was unprecedented too, but not nearly as different from other scifi).
The first movie, as a movie, was pretty lame IMHO, by the way. Naive story and bad directing, but amazing visuals and some very good ideas (I love that they have no ray guns, for example).
Keep in mind that this is a year-old footage that was done as a proof of concept. It's probably cheaper to do an all CG version instead of trying to film parts of it, especially in 3D.
But the director said in a recent interview that they're shooting with 3D cameras of their own design and that some of them are capable of recording at 1000 frames per second to capture slow-motion acrobatic moves... It'd be kinda pointless for anything but the VR part, so I think they are indeed going to use live action characters. Heck, even the old Flynn was obviously there in the CG world and was filmed, too (anyone notice the virtual roast pig in his penthouse, by the way?)
Yellow guy's supposed to be young Jeff Bridges, probably the Clu character from the first movie. Not really possible to do without CG.
They said they've completed filming 8 days ago, actually.
I've realized another important reason for the enthusiasm...
CGI has been stuck in a box for the past 20 years, ever since Abyss and Temrinator 2. Everything we did was based on reality. Movie VFX is an obvious case but even fully animated stuff has been built on realism. As much as I like Pixar their visuals are still using soft shadows and subsurface scattering and atmospherics and such.
It was either about blockbuster effects or family comedy with furry talking animals and noone really dared to try anything else... noone really thought about anything else.
We have placed artificial limits on imagination and never really let it run free. "Getting rid of the CG look" has become a mantra we all follow, abandoning the pure fun of experimental stuff like the "Mind's eye" animations from the eighties and early nineties.
So it's refreshing and exciting to once again see a project where the artists can explore what this medium can really do. I sure hope they'll go crazy and do stuff we've never seen before.
indeed.
QFT! Tent pitching insanity!
dude, I just finished watching Tron for the eleventybillionth time, the light cycles can turn any 'ole direction they fee like once they are off of the game grid!
Thats very true!
No I'm sure it's all CG (except for maybe Jeff bridges in the lookout). I meant the viewer is supposed to assume the guy in the blue is a real flesh and blood dude under the suit while the yellow is being controlled remotely.
That being said, I really hope the movie doesn't suck.
I stand corrected, though it's been quite some time since I've seen Tron
Guess I'll have to pick up a DVD and give it a whirl before this reincarnation makes it's way to the theater.
Frank the Avenger
Slum you gotta cut people some slack the original is older than some of the posters here... 27 years is a long time to keep details fresh.