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John Knoll on CGI, Tron And 25 Years of Change
StonyandCher writes to tell us John Knoll, visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic, is using the 25th anniversary of Tron as a platform to look back at the last 25 years of visual effects. "The type of imagery that was possible to create at the time was very clearly computer generated; it wasn't going to fool anybody into thinking it was live action. That was a limitation of the technology that worked very well within the story, that fit right in and made a lot of sense: if you're telling a story about events taking place inside a computer, inside a big virtual environment, what techniques should you use? Parts of the film were done by shooting live action then doing rotoscope and other optical techniques over the top of it, but the stuff that really looked cool and stood out was the stuff that was computer generated."
Of all the movies that could have been remade, and wasn't. This one's at the top of my list...
Come on Hollywood!
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...people will still be bitching about "fake CGI" and wishing they could return to the flawless, joyful days of stop-motion, when special effects were indistinguishable from reality!
...reading a review of TRON in InfoWorld. The headline was (I am not making this up) "The Disney Empire Strikes Back".
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lol agree, everytime I see CGI I think of common gateway interface and wonder what a movie has to do with a web application.
In Shop (I was in Electronics) we watched Tron with the class group to basically see what the technology was like back then. Now, at the time Tron was out the FX were pretty dam amazing. This anime-loving spaz kid kept saying how "teh graphics suck, i don't see what the big deal is!!!11" over and over, and everytime someone reminded him of the year it was made, and how computers weren't the same back then, he would wait a minute and repeat himself, about teh graphics. That fucking clown. I wanted to throw a chair. Everytime I hear the word Tron, I picture his head, with his jaw flapping about how the graphics suck, while he struggles to comprehend that when Tron came out people weren't buying Dual Core 64 Bit computer systems for a week's paycheck at Dunkin Donuts.
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Exactly. Being bitten by a radioactive^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hgenetically engineered spider and gaining super powers is TOTALLY BELIEVEABLE
I picked up the latest greatest Tron disks not long ago because I did like the movie and wanted a nice copy. My experience at the time was people just weren't going to get the jokes unless you were a tech or programmer. When they said "Bring up the Logic Probe!" I laughed my ass off because I had been using one that day.
The other six people in the audience made no sound.
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