Joseph Mitchell's Blog - Posts Tagged "tron-legacy"

Yesterday, I went to the movies and saw Tron Legacy, the sequel I've been waiting 28 years to see. The original movie changed my life and inspired me to learn computer modeling and animation. As practice, one of my earliest animation projects was to recreate the scene with the light cycles from the original film, using my computer and models I'd created from still images. Years later, I used my computer modeling skills to create the cover of my novel, Shard Mountain, so in a way I have Tron to thank for that, for giving me the desire to learn computer modeling and animation. It saved me from having to hire an artist, anyhow, and I think it came out well.

I loved the new Tron movie. The sequence with the light cycles is so beautifully rendered, I'm almost at a loss to describe how happy and giddy it made me feel, being such a big fan of the first film. It's actually getting some bad reviews from critics, but if I recall correctly, they said the same things about the original. I really enjoyed it very much.