New Tron Trailer With A Young CGI Head Of Jeff Bridges As CLU

There’s a new Tron Legacy trailer out right now.  It features a montage of scenes with the character of CLU.  In case you didn’t know already, a young CGI version of Jeff Bridges will be one of the possible villains in the movie.  I did a post a few months back and I broke down how I thought the effects were being handled.  I can honestly say with this new trailer, I do not know which way they are going.  I at first thought they were using effects techniques in the benjamin button movies.  Now, I’m not so sure.  While the rendering on the head looks good, the actual face and expressions suffer from the uncanny valley.  I think part of the problem is that I have read that they used a current head scan of bridges and that they then used an artist to make it look younger, instead of taking an old lifecast.  I’m not certain, but that could be an issue.  The animation on the face and muscles don’t look as good as BB’s from a few years ago.  The problem I have and I think most other people will have is that if you didn’t know this was a Jeff Bridges movie would you be able to tell that was supposed to be him(or a version of him) in some of the shots?

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2 Responses to “New Tron Trailer With A Young CGI Head Of Jeff Bridges As CLU”

Matt July 22nd, 2010 at 10:30 pm

I think the teaser had the most closely resembling Jeff Bridges of all the trailers. In the first trailer I would only agree that the character shown for a few moments vaguely resembles Jeff Bridges, but in the teaser there is no doubt about it. I think the smoother skin/non stubble look is better (most of his 70′s/80′s work was smooth faced). The trademark Bridges grin that they worked into the teaser definitely sold it as Bridges, if nothing else.

I was really excited about the prospects of them trying to CG a young Jeff Bridges, a truly geeky aspect of the new Tron film. They have a fairly controlled lighting environment, the conditions are right for them to be able to do it. I hope they can nail it before the movie is released.

Don July 27th, 2010 at 1:42 am

The subtle expressions in other parts of the face are convincing, but it looks like they need to do mocap on the speech. I hope they tighten it up, because a major part of the publicity for this film is the “young” CGI Jeff Bridges, and as a result, people will look more closely. If they don’t get it right, it will be a critical blow for what appears to be some brilliant design and effects.

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