Hi there i'm ant, I'm based in the uk and a big Tron fan. I was blown away by Tron Legacy and wanted to do a tribute animation. I decided it would be fun to take one of the daft punk characters robot heads and make that my lead character in my animation. I modelled up a tron style light cycle but made it a 4 wheeled vehicle instead.
basic idea is that my character will be chased by a recognizer whilst on his light cycle.
My key aim for the project is to do something that holds up visually & tackles some nice technical shots (derezzing characters into cubes isn't easy heh!). Also i've kinda had the character, light cycle and recognizer sat around as models for a good year now since seeing early screenshots of the tr2n comic con teaser so i figured it'd be good to do something with those assets
For anyone interested i've done all the modelling, animation and rendering in Maya and rendered with Mental Ray. Compositing is done in After Effects.
Here's a few work in progress shots of what I've put together so far... hope you like - feel free to add comments, thoughts and ideas to this thread...
light cycle activation shot...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNEMsvjtook
light cycle flyby and recognizer pursuing shot...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjaZ6HXnq5A
recognizer pilot derez shot...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8g_iYVZCjs
hope you enjoy - currently rendering another shot as i type lol!