Yes, I've started another Tron project. After 4 months of seeing all the crap animations appearing on YouTube, I know I can do so much better. I've proven it once with my Tron Intro animation, but this time I'm going all-out, I'm going to use every piece of modelling and animation I've ever created for Tron in one complete animated short film.
It's tentatively titled "TRON: Defiance". It's based in the TRON world but somewhat unrelated to TRON Legacy. It's about an assasination attempt on CLU. Basically, a lone, unnamed assasin program infiltrates TRON city and the Grid, plants a bomb on CLU's craft, destroys it and narrowly escapes Rinzler. Simple, epic, and no dialog. :)
I've already got the entire film outlined and visualized and the first 45 seconds completed, so it's definately happening. New, never before seen models like the Light Jet, a fully modelled Tron city, stealth suits and gliders, and CLU's personal craft will make an appearance, as well as a completed and fully-realized Lightcycle arena and a new style off-road lightcycle.
Music is all planned out, I will be using two scores from the movie, "Recognizer" for the first half (infiltration) and "Flynn Lives" for the second half of the film (escape).
The only things I am worried about are sound and character animation. I'm going to try and use some sound from the movie, but character animation is going to have to be created by hand. Although with some camera trickery I might be able to get away with minimum effort, but we'll see. For the first 45 seconds, static models have worked pretty well.
For the visual aspect of the film, I've employed a "dirty" digital feel to help contrast the 3Dness of the film and given more natural camera movements using tracking from handheld cameras.
I was also thinking about creating a TRON credit sequence at the end of the film, it would be kind cool to show that off as well.
I am still working on other things, but they are at a lull right now, waiting for things to be filmed so that I begin working on them. Until then, I'm working on Defiance.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I think you should introduce a new color to the Grid. I love the orange and blues of CLU and Flynn's gangs respectively, but maybe your third party should be completely different. Like an ultraviolet purple or a neon green.
ReplyDeleteAnd instead of an assassin, what if the rogue program is a virus? Its job is to seek out CLU and destroy him - maybe it's even been initiated by Sam Flynn. Or Dillinger!
Interesting idea, I've been messing around with duplicating the Tron end titles sequence and I loved the purple/green color shift near the screen edges and I think I'm going to see how that looks throughout the movie.
ReplyDelete