deadybones:

my-little-ninja:

tilthat:

TIL the original TRON (1982) was not considered for a visual effects Oscar because the Academy felt the filmmakers had cheated by using computers.

via ift.tt

War…war never changes

Part of the fuckery of this is that a lot of TRON’s most iconic visual effects weren’t done using computers. Like, at all. They just look like that because they were filmed on a high-contrast film called Kodalith, with backlit hand-painted animation cels layerered in there so everyone looks all glowy.

These are hand-painted cels! Even the zappy digital effects started on paper:

So by any standards TRON got fucking robbed and it’s an injustice our rotten, corrupt society will never live down