Tron Film Vs Modern Day

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Comparison between old film special effects and modern day special effects For my comparison I picked out the 1982 science fiction film Tron and its sequel Tron: Legacy released in 2010. Tron is about a computer hacker who is seized into the digital world. He is forced to participate in gladiatorial games with no chance of escaping except for the help of a heroic security programme (Lisberger et al., 1982). The reason I picked Tron is for its uniqueness in visual effects, as well as in other areas, such art direction, set decoration and more. It was one of the first films to be influenced by the video game obsession, particularly Pong, the first video game in history, made in 1972. Tron was the first live-action film to use CGI to a lengthy degree of about 15 to 20 minutes. In spite of using CGI, more traditional techniques, such as matte painting, are used in the film. For example, the glowing electric circuits on the costumes of the characters were hand-painted frame by frame. “It consists of superimposing transparent plates on the film, hand-drawn with landscape scenes.” (Mantovani, Porcaro, Villa, 2015) This technique was very widely used in films since it allowed the ‘making’ of sets and landscapes without the need to build them. Most of the scenes, backgrounds, and visual effects in the film were created using a traditional process called …show more content…

He meets his father's creation and an ally who was born inside this digital world (Kosinski et al., 2010). Tron: Legacy proves very interesting in showing how much progress has been made with CGI and technology since it’s predecessor. This film features various techniques such as “digital performance capture, advanced 3D cameras and sophisticated computer rendering of live actors into digital sets.” (Thompson, 2010) In fact, it’s said that 90% of the film is

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