TRON Legacy

Ok, I've taken my TRON logo and decided to build the entire opening sequence to TRON Legacy.  This is by far my biggest project to date and has stemmed from mostly the fact that I feel that I have one of the best TRON logo remakes on the web.  In comparing other TRON logo remakes to my own I stumbled across someone else who also decided to recreate the intro sequence, but it was rudimentary extrusion over a google map of a city and very very basic.

Last August I was in Chicago and took a lot of photos of buildings and roads and other fantastic textures for my collection and I took them and created building textures along with hand-made bump maps and reflection maps for the windows and applied them to my own city that I built for the TRON logo in Cinema 4D.  So far, I am VERY satisified with the results and it's been an amazing learning experience.

Here is a sample render from the animation:

There are other details to point out, I am currently missing vehicles on the roads, and from what I can remember from the movie intro there weren't any stop lights or light fixtures, just really nice lights coming from the bottom of the buildings a really nice road textures.  And I would much rather try and figure out how to use an extrusion map instead of a bump map to provide building textures.  Bump maps look great and all from afar or certain distances, but they quickly lose their quality when getting up close.

There is also the light strokes sequence before the city during the intro that outlines the ground, a few buildings and builds up until the city is generated.  That, I think I am going to do in After Effects using splines, and that's the other half of this project that I haven't even gotten to yet, maybe today, we'll see.