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TRON in cardboard

March 28, 2008 9:30 am

Tron’s light-cycle chase recreated in cardboard, with stop-motion and pixilation techniques - no CG!

(Thanks Mark Mayerson)

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03/28/08 9:34am	Starsky says:
	Michel Gondry must’ve had a hand in this.
03/28/08 9:55am	james suhr says:
	Sweet! That must have been fun to make. I’m not a super big fan of pixelation, but it is sad that we don’t see more of it. Thanks for sharing.
03/28/08 10:12am	Paul N says:
	Give these guys the effects contract for Tron 2! :0)
03/28/08 10:17am	Aaron Schneiderman says:
	The material is immaterial when you have talent and creativity.
03/28/08 10:25am	salvador ragdolly says:
	how SWEDE it is!
03/28/08 10:33am	Chrissy Fellmeth says:
	brilliant! I love the little “making-of” clips at the end. hilarious!
03/28/08 10:41am	red pill junkie says:
	That. Was. Sweet! ^-^
03/28/08 11:09am	droosan says:
	I was actually under the impression that many of the effects in TRON were acheived in a similar way; i.e., physical sets/models & miniatures were photographed, then optically composited with the ‘glowy’ elements to give it a CG ‘look’.
03/28/08 11:13am	The Gagaman says:
	Well that was quite a bit more elaborate than my stop-motion/pixelation film based on Tron (in soul, not shot for shot the same and with an original soundtrack) that I did for the Sci-Fi Channel two years ago: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ev1POGNZgPc
03/28/08 11:57am	Floyd Norman says:
	They should have done it that way the first time. Did the story make any sense to anybody? When I first saw the film I thought the projectionist had the reels mixed up.
03/28/08 12:42pm	Trevour says:
	Be Kind Rewind.
03/28/08 1:20pm	Chuck R. says:
	Fun! Reminds me of “Hardware Wars” and all those other Fosselius spoofs of the 70’s. This probably isn’t necessary, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Wars
03/28/08 1:45pm	amanda says:
	That was f’ing amazing!! hot damn!!! That took a lot of effort and it really came through well!! Sooooooo cool!!!!!!
03/28/08 2:07pm	Keith Paynter says:
	People think it’s cool, and yet there are those who like to bash Family Guy for doing the exact same thing?
03/28/08 2:39pm	Fuzzy Dunlop says:
	Keith– or Robot Chicken? http://www.videosift.com/video/Robot-Chicken-Tron-Cars (Sorry if this is a repost.)
03/28/08 3:21pm	robcat2075 says:
	BTW… I think the stop-mo technique is spelled pixilation (from the notion of “pixies”) to distinguish it from the the blocky aliasing we call pixelation.
03/28/08 5:09pm	lamartherevenger says:
	when i saw this.. i was completely amazed. still am
03/29/08 4:01pm	Tim Drage says:
	Pretty nice! QUOTE: “People think it’s cool, and yet there are those who like to bash Family Guy for doing the exact same thing?” No because Family Guy is not remotely the same thing as remaking tron with cardboard?
03/30/08 3:11pm	RODAN says:
	If this isn’t on the extras on my new TRON dvd I’m taking it back! Brilliant!

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