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Tron
« on: February 02, 2011, 06:13:31 PM »
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Tron flim was made in 1982 ... So what computer and software were used for the 3D animation? I just love this "solid type" 3D animation.
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Re: Tron
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Re: Tron
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2011, 06:27:53 PM »
Looks from the section on pre-production in the Wikipedia article like the CGI was handled by four different companies, although MAGI did the majority of it. All of the companies likely used in-house software, as that was a very new field at the time, and it seems that none of them released any commercial rendering software later, although some of the people involved went on to found Wavefront.

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