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user-inactivated  ·  3540 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Movie Club - Voting Thread #11

    The film that nearly destroyed Disney: TRON.

I took my first couple of computer graphics classes with someone who worked on Tron. He tells a great story about it: it looked dated at the time, and on purpose. The renderer they were using was much more sophisticated than the Blinn shaded CSG objects in the movie, they were asked to make something more primitive looking because the best they could do didn't look computery enough. The company he was working for had trouble finding clients after that, because everyone who had seen Tron thought their renderer was crap.





kleinbl00  ·  3540 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's fuckin' awesome.

Friend of mine storyboarded Tron Legacy. he has lots of stories as well, but he tells them in hushed tones because everyone here fears Disney.

user-inactivated  ·  3540 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I CAN'T WAIT FOR TRON 3.

Tron Legacy was my 2010 Pacific Rim: yeah that shit was stupid, but dammit it was pretty and entertaining. And it had Daft Punk in it. TL, not PR.

Tron has a bad rap in general. Tron: Uprising was fucking amazing and was canceled immediately. Main Character voiced by Frodo, Tron voiced by actual Tron and not a horrendous double, and the antagonist voiced by Emmanuelle Chriqui? Swoon Too good for Disney. I worry the same thing will happen with Gravity Falls.

coffeesp00ns  ·  3540 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I Unabashedly loved the shit out of the Tron reboot with Olivia Wilde.