The Master Control Program is dead.

  • The CGI in this movie, being from 1982, is fucking astounding. It looks better than a lot of CGI from the 90’s and early 2000’s. I used to think it was practical effects and camera tricks growing up, and it blew my mind they actually used CGI.

    • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It’s more like animation than CGI, really. It looks great.
      I think the only real CGI was the bike scene, with the background grid.

      • UKFilmNerd
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        221 year ago

        I just checked Wiki and surprisingly there is 15-20 minutes of CGI in Tron. Basically anything that contains a vehicle (light bikes, tanks, recognizers etc) or anything that contains a patterned computer background.

        If I remember correctly, Tron was refused any kind of animation Oscar because they used computers and that was considered cheating.