The Master Control Program is dead.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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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.
Bro, they programmed it all on fucking PUNCH CARDS
I wonder if they laid them out in a grid
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.
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.
Nice, thanks for checking. That's cool stuff.
Those flying vehicle things are CGI. That's why it blew my mind. I thought those were real models and then post processed, but they're fully computer generated.
It's the first feature film with a completely cgi sequence.