Hello everyone,

I found some really great TRON-related videos on YouTube tonight. Here's a couple for ya:

Computer Dating


Ping-Tron


DroneS (Disc Of TRON rip-off: game has been cancelled)

Cool videos - I especially liked that first one. He did a pretty good job with the effects and it was fun and nerdy too.

Good finds, Mr. Sinistar!

Bring us more!

FEED ME!

I'll stop now, before I break in to the "Feed me, Seymour" song from Little Shop.

I like the home-made glow effects of the first one. Kinda funny, too! The third one looks like it could have been really good, it's a shame it was canned.

And the second one... what the heck?!

Jademz - Good idea about the Dronez devs. For some reason I had the impression they were European... maybe German. But you could be right.

PS: I just watched the Tron on Me vid and I was actually kinda impressed I enjoyed it. I think the ending should've somehow incorporated Flynn getting digitized back to the real world... but it was still fun to watch.

Traahn Wrote:Jademz - Good idea about the Dronez devs. For some reason I had the impression they were European... maybe German. But you could be right.

I was about to upload a youtube video, but with respect to where I got it, Here's the video. Download
A few more interesting links. DronezpicDroneZwalker
Link to source=http://www.nvidia.com/object/dronez.htmlLink to IGN article=IGNIGN ActionVaultIt's a shame, that a game of this calibur seems to have run out of money, from what I see. Somewhere between 2001-2003 the Dreamcast and PC version was scrapped, and the Xbox version was introduced. From what I can tell, the creator(s) wanted to put out the highest quality product. The core teams name, I just read, is SpinVector.
ok, one more link InterviewThe IGN reviews refer to this game as jaw dropping.

I bet something stopped it, maybe a mouse chewed thier wires?

Either way, If you wanted to create a cyberspace game, and had 5 years into it, would you like the rug pulled? Maybe Tron needs some good competion, or Disney may have bought this game, to release the weak game they released. who knows.

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tksmith Wrote:Greetings, programs! I'm the guy who made the "Computer Dating" video linked earlier. If anybody has any questions about it, have at. Thanks for the praise, too -- I appreciate it.

Awesome! Thanks for joining us here on TRON-Sector! We hope you'll have a great time here. TheReelTodd will soon greet you with his "standard-substandard" greeting post.

It's really great when someone make a TRON parody/fan video especially with special effects and stuff.

tksmith, I sent you a PM about Sony Vegas.

Woo! Hey there, tksmith. I really loved your video - great effects!

Oh, and don't be surprised if you get thousands of messages from me too, asking for information on how it was pulled off.

Thanks for the welcomes, everybody.

I've received some questions about how the costume and special effects were done on the video, so I thought I'd explain a bit here. It wasn't all that hard, and I'd like to encourage people to make more fan videos in the Tron universe.

Here's what it looked like when I shot the video:


For the costume, I just bought a used hockey helmet that looked sufficiently Tron-like, removed the unnecessary parts, sanded the logos off, and added green electrical tape for the glowing lines. I also added tape to a gray shirt, and some knee pads for the shoulders. All told, it cost about $40.

I don't own a studio, so I shot the footage in my home theater -- that's my screen behind me. (It's 12.5 feet diagonal, and Tron looks fantastic on it.

I pointed some lights at the screen behind me to make it completely white, so the editing software could remove it later. The video camera was on manual settings, so I'd still be the proper brightness with the super-bright background.

Once I had the footage, I used a video editor (Vegas Video) to remove the background (everything that's pure white) and replace it with a still frame that I grabbed from the Tron 2.0 video game. Then I made my footage black and white.

On top of that, I added another copy of my footage, but used the editor's greenscreen function to select all of the green tape, and turn it into a blue glow, which I added to to the black and white footage. The electrical tape actually came in a multi-pack with other colors, and I tested it with others, but green worked best.

For the sound, I recorded the two voices in separate takes, and digitally lowered the pitch of the "MCP" voice in a sound editor. I also raised the pitch of my own voice, just to sound dorkier.

There was a fair amount of tweaking to get the effects just right, but once they were done, I could have done a whole movie's worth. The hardest part of the whole thing was trying to come up with a worthwhile script. Now that I have the effects figured out, and the costume (or at least the helmet), I'm thinking of other related videos to make.

The voice wasn't too hard; I just used a sound-editing program (Sound Forge) to lower the pitch of my voice. Normally the pitch gets lower (deeper) as you slow down the recording, but most sound editing programs can employ some fancy math to raise or lower the pitch without changing the speed of the recording. Telephone voice-changer devices work in the same way. Some video editors will have this capability built-in as well -- iMovie on MacOS X has a voice-pitch-changer feature with a dial that's labelled "Monster" on the low end, and "Chipmunk" on the high end.

I don't remember exactly how much I shifted the pitch of the recording, I just played with it until it sounded MCP-like.

This is actually just a modern simulation of how the MCP's voice was originally done. I believe that the MCP's voice was produced by taking lines performed by David Warner (Sark, Dillinger) and lowering the pitch on them drastically. If I'd had more time to make the film, I probably would have tried to mimic his accent for it.

I raised the voice of the rest of the dialog largely because my voice is generally pretty low, and didn't sound different enough from the MCP voice. I can actually produce speech in the range of the MCP, but it sounded more authentic when I recorded it normally and processed it.

Welcome to Tron-Sector, tksmith!

I saw your video shortly before Mr. Sinistar posted it here, and was also impressed by it. In fact, now that I know what simple techniques to create such a stunning result: I'm even more impressed.