Profile: “Tron”

Our friend Trevor Hogg, whose profiles of filmmakers regularly feature at FlickeringMyth.com, offers something special today: This profile of the original Disney movie Tron. From Trevor’s email:

It proved to be quite the challenge to get pictures from the original Tron but Disney Australia came through in the end.

And there are several great photos including this one:

An excerpt:

CGSociety :: Special Feature
21 September 2010, by Trevor Hogg

While attending a computer graphics screening hosted by Mathematics Application Group Inc. (MAGI) in 1975, a young animator experienced a creative epiphany. “I think on that original reel from MAGI,” recalled filmmaker Steven Lisberger, “the thing that stuck with me the most, that I couldn’t get out of my head for years, was the image of moving through a computer generated environment. When a year or two after that the video games started becoming popular, and I started talking to the computer people, it seemed that I now had the characters I could put into that computer environment.”

Here’s the trailer for the original Tron:

Here’s the trailer for the upcoming Tron Legacy:

Tron Legacy to be released in the U.S. December 17, 2010.

For more of Trevor’s profile, go here to the website for the Society of Digital Artists.

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