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   From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:4B149F08.4DB9F6E7@hotmMOVEail.com...   
      
      
   >> catpandaddy wrote:   
   >> >>>   
   >> >>> Quite good for 1982.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Again, the bar was quite low. They weren't even able to integrate the   
   >> >> computer animation with the live action. Most of the scenes where   
   >> >> people seemed to be interacting with computer imagery were done with   
   >> >> matte paintings or traditional cel animation. There weren't even any   
   >> >> textures.   
   >> >   
   >> > I knew bits and pieces of that, but I never fully got why there was   
   >> > such   
   >> > a technical barrier with compositing the CGI over the live shots.  One   
   >> > would think computer generated images would be just as easy to make   
   >> > mattes from. Any word on what made it problematic at the time?   
   >>   
   >> Lack of imagination, maybe. Or maybe cost.   
   >   
   > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(film)   
   >   
   > Read the section "Beginnings", then "Pre-production"   
      
   The article itself was a bit general.  However, it looks like the references   
   might contain the specific information I was curious about, so I'll check   
   the source material for the article now, which I should have done in the   
   first place.   
      
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