Added 2 new A* pages:I gotta throw out a few thank-yous today, because I noticed I've been getting traffic from a few new sources lately: the comic list on the blog Daveawayfromhome, and the links page on Paul's Exciting Home Page. So thanks Dave, and thanks Paul, for linking to A*--it is much appreciated!
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The way Page 136 there turned out reminded me that a friend showed me the trailer for the upcoming "Tron Legacy" this weekend, a follow-up--in these days of rampant sequelization--to the 1982 original. Not that I was ever a huge Tron fan (although I did like playing our own version of "Tron Deadly Discs" with Frisbees, ie throwing them at each other; and I guess I *did* work for a company that made a recent Tron PC game), and not that this new one couldn't be good in its own right, but I thought it was pretty odd that they've mostly dropped one of the primary aesthetics of the original, namely the sort of grayish/negative rendering of skin; they seem to have settled for just overall grayish lighting instead.
Which is weird! Granted, the effect in the original is very artificial looking--but that was exactly the point. Maybe in these days of super high-res CG stuff, art directors are just too obsessed with achieving photo-realism, I dunno. Anyway for my money, the film from 28 years ago still looks cooler--but compare for yourself! Here's trailer, and trailer.
(And actually that wasn't the one my friend showed me; it was the LITERAL Tron Legacy Trailer Parody version. =P)
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