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ecrabb
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| garyfritz wrote: | | Certainly a lot was rotoscoped, but significant parts were pure CGI: the lightcycles, the tanks, the "recognizer" doodads... All pretty crude by today's standards but way cool at the time. Remember, this was 4 years before Luxo Jr. came out at Siggraph. The state of the art WAS crude by today's standards. |
Oh, absolutely significant chunks were CG... But, there was less CG than you think... I think it was only about 20 minutes' worth of all-CG shots. Seems like a lot more, but that's what I think I remember reading.
Now, 20 minutes of CG means nearly 30,000 frames, which would have been a massive undertaking then... I mean, we're talking about when desktop computers had 64K of RAM and hard drives were 10 and 20MB. But, yeah - state of the art then, but totally crude, now.
Here... This should blow your mind... Some of these new hot-sh*t graphics cards could render TRON-style graphics in real-time at 60fps - even at 4k resolution, I'd imagine... So, if you could capture that stream to disk fast enough, you could render now in 10 minutes what undoubtedly took thousands upon thousands of hours back then.
What a difference 30 years has made, eh?
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rssimm
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can't wait for tron on BD. showed my 11 year old tron recently and he loves it, can't wait for the new movie. my 15 year old can't stand it. but he is like his mom and they just don't get it. the younger one wanted a sleep over for his b-day to watch movies on the projector and play games, on the projector. wondering what will happen when i fire up the last starfighter?
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Tom.W
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dturco
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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C'mon That's how I started this thread last year 
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Tom.W
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Never mind...........  ..... Never read the first post in the thread
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garyfritz
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| ecrabb wrote: | | What a difference 30 years has made, eh? |
My body keeps reminding me.  I was 26 when Tron came out. I am definitely NOT 26 now, even if my mind keeps trying to tell me otherwise!!
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ecrabb
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| Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:27 am Post subject: |
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I was 12. Now I'm turning 40 in just a few weeks. Whaaaaaa....
Oh, and nothing like chasing around a 4 1/2- and 3 1/2-year old to wear you out, either!
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