Jeff Bridges On Tron Legacy Cool Photos
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‘Tron Legacy’ is a fantasy science fiction digital generation. Forget aliens who invade the Earth, or obsession in life on Mars. Welcome to the “Middle Earth” of video game generation. In the ‘Tron Legacy’, Kevin the video games creator, and his son Sam, trapped into the game he designed.
For the last few days, MTV News has been taking you inside some of the coolest aspects of “Tron Legacy,” from the creative process behind Daft Punk’s violins-meet-synthesizers soundtrack to the generation of the film’s neon-pulsing motorcycles and warships. Now we’re going to take you behind the creation of the film’s single-most jaw-dropping visual effect: turning Jeff Bridges from 60-something Oscar-winner into the Bridges of 1984′s “Against All Odds.”
We caught up with visual-effects supervisor Eric Barba, the driving force behind the CG work on “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” for which technicians both aged Brad Pitt into an old man and turned back time to capture the actor’s 20-something look. What they managed to accomplish was nothing short of astounding, and Barba won an Oscar for his efforts.
But what Barba and director Joseph Kosinski set out to create for “Tron Legacy” was something far different — and far more challenging. “It’s the hardest thing that’s ever been done in visual effects,” Barba explained. Read more on MTV
