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Tron Legacy
jipp:
just saw the preview to true grit.. man that looks good. laughs jeff is having quite the year... good for him.. iv been a fan since the first movie i saw him in the nascar movie cant think of the name o fit.. but the one he use to run booze in his family's hot rod then switch's to racing.. good movie!! think thats the plot anyhow, dang been decades since iv seen that movie.
chris,
danny_galaga:
Well, finally saw the bonus disk of the original Tron movie. Bloody awesome! My only disappointment was not seeing a detailed expplanation of how they transferred each digital image to film. That would have been really interesting to see. All I know is that each cell took ten minutes for the computer to draw. 24 frames per second means 240 minutes (4 hours) to draw one second of animation! I did also learn that there are six co ordinates to plot an on=bjects movement, and to calculate that, the guy in charge of that would work out a beginning, middle and end and then punch those co ordinates into a computer to interpolate the rest of the numbers. Then he had to hand type those numbers into the main computer! Typing in 600 numbers would give you co ordinates for about 4 seconds of animation. Phew...
I also learnt that Moebius had a lot to do with initial design of costumes and characters, although I don't really see that in the final design.
There's a couple of hours of stuff more or less- more than the movie itself! Worth the watch.
I might rewatch Tron again before I give it back to my workmate. Who, incidentally, has never watched the bonus disk, even though she has a background in commercial art! She also doesn't know who Moebius is. I will lend her one of my cherished Epic magazines or something else with his artwork in it...
Vigo:
Yeah, that was an excellent bonus disk. It was interesting to hear that none of the cast members had a clue what the movie was really about, or why they were doing what they were doing. They were just in a black room and told where to look, what to say, and what emotion to show. It wasn't until later that Steve Lisberger sat down with the actors to explain what was happening in the movie.
Lisberger hadn't really directed a live movie before, so I guess he was a little out of his element when keeping the actors on board. He did throw up a bunch of arcade machines in around the studio for actors to use when not needed, gotta give him points for that.
It was also cool to hear that John Lasseter had been at Disney during Tron's production, and after seeing early footage of the lightcycle scenes, he decided to pursue working with computer animation and went on to pioneer CGI animation. He flat out said that he would not have ever made Toy Story if not for being inspired by Tron.
Vigo:
Yep. We could have also skipped having to hear you complain about the movies as well.
Vigo:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 29, 2010, 01:56:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on December 29, 2010, 01:54:19 pm ---Yep. We could have also skipped having to hear you complain about the movies as well.
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I'd just complain about something else.
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:dunno I can't argue that.
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