ISO50

A little disappointing to me, the action didn’t look kinetic enough? And the design looked predictable. Clearly there were not enough Japanese of French people involved. Technically I’m sure it’s special, but I’m guessing the soundtrack will be the coolest thing about it. Just a hunch, maybe I’m too sober, could be fricken awesome.

I thought the trailer looked neat. Probably look better in 3D and as a whole. I kinda like the bikes doing their rigid straight runs though with no going outside the lines!

I really like the quiet tone of it. The “pixelization” effect is pretty rad. The music cue in the tunnel has a nice subtle quality.

They really ought to make a live action/3d movie of the Berenstein Bears. Or something like Denver the Last Dinosaur or Poppels.

this movie is gonna be super-rad. i saw the leaked trailer from last years comcon and got way excited.

That was way cooler than the pod race.

Tron is so much better than people remember. I think it sits in the collective consciousness as a laughable example of 80s cheese, but if you go back and watch it its surprisingly beautiful! The composition is something that all IS050 readers can definitely get down with. Read the wiki entry on it and you’ll see that it’s because of some really old-school analogue techniques that were used and the visionaries who art directed it.

From wiki:

Three designers were brought in to create the look of the computer world. Renowned French comic book artist Jean Giraud (aka Moebius) was the main set and costume designer for the movie. Most of the vehicle designs (including Sark’s aircraft carrier, the light cycles, the tank and the solar sailer) were created by industrial designer Syd Mead, of Blade Runner fame. Peter Lloyd, a high-tech commercial artist, designed the environments.

Tron was one of the first movies to make extensive use of any form of computer animation, and is celebrated as a milestone in the computer animation industry. However, the film contains less computer-generated imagery than is generally supposed: Only fifteen to twenty minutes of actual animation were used, mostly scenes that use vehicles such as light-cycles, tanks and ships. Because the technology to combine computer animation and live action did not exist at the time, these sequences were intercut with the filmed characters.

Most of the scenes, backgrounds and visual effects in the film were created using more traditional techniques and a unique process known as “backlit animation”. In this process, live-action scenes inside the computer world were filmed in black-and-white on an entirely black set, printed on large-format high-contrast film, then colorized with photographic and rotoscopic techniques to give them a “technological” feel. With multiple layers of high-contrast, large-format positives and negatives, this process required truckloads of sheet film and a workload even greater than that of a conventional cel-animated feature. In addition, the varying quality and age of the film layers caused differing brightness levels for the backlit effects from frame to frame, explaining why glowing outlines and circuit traces tended to flicker in the original film. Due to its difficulty and cost, this process would never be repeated for another feature film.

i used to work for Digital Domain (the guys who did that whole proof of concept they’re using for the teaser trailer).
You guys should know that every single image in that video except “old” Jeff Bridges is computer generated. Even the faces of both bike riders. (They used the same facial modeling techniques established in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.) Completely fabricated. Completely crazy! And in 3D, its completely mind blowing.

Wow, it is something delightful. While somethings do seem of, and rotating slow-mo cams I think where so overdone in transformers that they lost their appeal for several films to come, this is looking dark, brooding and promising.