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user-inactivated  ·  3541 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Movie Club - Voting Thread #11

    The film that nearly destroyed Disney: TRON.

I took my first couple of computer graphics classes with someone who worked on Tron. He tells a great story about it: it looked dated at the time, and on purpose. The renderer they were using was much more sophisticated than the Blinn shaded CSG objects in the movie, they were asked to make something more primitive looking because the best they could do didn't look computery enough. The company he was working for had trouble finding clients after that, because everyone who had seen Tron thought their renderer was crap.