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I love the movie, but just FYI, pretty much every scene with people in it is not CGI. It's hand draw backgrounds and tripled exposed live actors who were then p
by gfxgirl 4y ago
I love the movie, but just FYI, pretty much every scene with people in it is not CGI. It's hand draw backgrounds and tripled exposed live actors who were then physically hand compositied together
Watch a makng of movie to see
There's pleny actual CGI like the light cycles, the recognizer scenes, the MCP, the light sail.
- layer8 4y agoWhat was mind-blowing was the aesthetics, and the concept of being “beamed” or digitized into a computer. I didn’t care a lot as a kid what was CGI or not.
- gfxgirl 4y agoneither did I. Only passing on how amazing it is that so much was hand made. Example, in the clip above: 2:15 to 3:10 and 4:35 to the end there's no CGI but it looks like CGI
- usrusr 4y agoThe aesthetic choices for those "not CGI" scenes rarely get the praise they deserve. That high contrast b/w film stock that looks like straight out of something Fritz Lang if you ignore the neon overlays, brilliant. That's why it's aging so well, it simply does not look as "1982" as it could have, it looks like the entire history and future of movies at once. Perhaps the most important role of the CGI is that of a distraction, because aesthetic choices like that tend to work best when you are not aware of them.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoThat everyone inside the computer is wearing some type of headgear helps too. Many sci-fi movies feel dated due to the use of contemporary hairstyles. This is somewhat true of Tron in the real world scenes but once in the computer, it does have a very timeless aesthetic.