Tron Uprising: Beck's Beginning - A Short Fan Film
I've always wanted to make a Tron fanfilm, so while I've been stuck indoors for the past year or so I thought I might as well try and be a bit productive and make my dream come true... and to stop myself from going insane... hope you enjoy! :D
Tron Uprising was a brilliant 3d animated cartoon series developed back in 2012, which I thought was an amazing show and really showed off how good 3d assets could be tweaked to give the beautiful visual aesthetic of 2d animation. It also featured some incredible voice acting by Elijah Wood, Lance Henriksen, and Bruce Boxleitner back as Tron himself.
This short film is a recreation of the opening to the first episode where Beck meets Tron for the first time, and is my love letter to the entire Tron franchise.
I shot this film on my recently aquired Canon R5 at 8k (except the 120 fps slowmotion scenes) and then sampled down to 4k during editing and post production. This allowed me to gain the maximum amount of detail whilst keying out the greenscreen footage (which I plan on never doing again, LED walls is the future, had enough of meticulous greenscreen keying over the years...) Shooting this film was quite difficult though, as I had to be behind the camera and in front, framing shots while directing myself, although this was made easier using the Canon Camera App on my phone (conveniently placed just out of shot, or on my lap during filming) which allowed me to adjust settings from a distance, while the auto eye focus setting kept a constant lock on my face so I knew I'd always be sharp and in focus. Although if I was to ever do this again I''d prefer to have a seperate actor, it makes adjusting things on set so much easier.
I originally wanted to test out the latest Deepfake technology too and replace my face with Elijah Wood's face to match his voice, however I was never able to get it looking correct, mainly due to the low rez face captures I had and Elijah Wood's brilliantly bright eyes causing problems as the software couldn't figure out which way he was looking most of the time, but ohh well, maybe I'll post the results one of these days as an outtake reel...
The CG environments and vehicles were all created in Maya and then ported over to the Unreal Engine, I've been learning Unreal for a while now and found it's features to be incredibly useful for filmmaking, as well as a rendering tool that gives instant results when finessing lighting and reflection, something that would normally take hours to render, I can't wait to see how the program evolves in the future especially with raytracing and makes things easier for filmmakers :)
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Disney: You do realize that you have made yourself an enemy of the State? Leo: The State is the enemy.
I'm so glad there are still people that adore tron uprising, definitely sharing this with my friends!
@ironknightcinema
2 жыл бұрын
My team did a video the top 7 shows that needs one more season. I think this was number 2
Disney: look around, there's Hundreds of shows to watch. You can't save tron uprising. Leo: Watch me.
They got to bring this series back.
*SCREAMING* OMU! THIS IS AMAZING Program!!!! You and your team made EVERY single aspect! The backgrounds, 3D models, EVERY shot is EXACTLY the same as the episode from TRON: Uprising! THIS is THE BEST fanwork I have EVER seen! I am SUPER hyped for this and really hope you Programs do more!!!!! Thank you SO much for sharing with us! #TronLives!
Really cool! Now do the whole show xD
@canary0026
3 жыл бұрын
And beyond
Incredible! The music selection and lighting effects are awesome. Thank you for making this short film for all of us Tron fans. Flynn lives.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Awesome so awesome. I'm so happy fan films from this franchise exists. You did an amazing job. Thank you.
This has to be one of the best fan films I have ever seen! I've love the Tron series, especially when Uprising was on Disney XD. I really wish they continued with the series.
Incredible work man! You should continue your fan made series... Disney needs to hire you!
An impressive amount of work here in the clip. Though the helmets could use some improvement since for some strange reason Tron posing as one CLU's soldiers I can't help but think his helmet is sort of bent. But otherwise it's an incredible piece of work. Glad to know there are still tron fans out there.
Holy cow you remade part of the first episode! That's crazy impressive!
Man THIS IS AMAZING TRON LIVES!
I have always adored the alien, surreal nature of the Outlands, and you've added just enough detail there to make those foreign spaces compelling and fantastic. Excellent work on this rendering of the episode - I love what you've done! I rarely comment on anything at all, but this certainly earns praise!
This is incredible! Great work! I'm a big fan of Uprising and you have no idea how we all appreciate your work! Maybe, hopefully you'll one day play with the big leagues and get them to do a second season 🙌🏻, long live the Users!
😍 thanks for being born!
@LeoTierney
3 жыл бұрын
Probably the best compliment I've ever received😁
Thank you! This looks absolutely great! 😊👌💖🌟✨
Thank you for this! As people mentioned in earlier comments, receiving any new Tron content is very special to us fans around the world and it makes me really happy the fandom is still alive by such spectacular actions. You did great work!
Just incredible work man hats off to u guys ❤️❤️
This is so awesome!!! I admire that your love of this series moved you to make this!! I love seeing that there are still people out there as fascinated and intrigued by Tron as me!
Glorious product, well done.
Wow! Incredible work. What an awesome thing to do during lockdown.
This is top tier work. Incredible!
This means so much to us fans
This fan film is amazing. The costumes. The sets and the visual effects are 100% accurate. We need more Tron fan films like this.
This is incredible! Your skills are insane. Keep up the great work! :)
Heck. Consider me impressed! Amazing work!
Just absolutely incredible!! Loved every moment! Clear passion was put into this. From a fellow user. TRON LIVES!
Fantastic job man. Tron fan films are as rare as actual official Tron content.
This is phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. It’s so great to see someone in the Tron fandom with the recourses/skills to make something amazing like this! #flynnlives #savetron3
@DoYouLikeScaryMovies2024
Жыл бұрын
It’s Coming Soon….
Please Continue These Tron Uprising Shorts This Show Deserves A Modern Remake.
I'm thankful that there are still people in the Resistance
This video popped up on another channel I watch. It was number 7 in a top made fan films. So I had to come check it out. I love this, you did an amazing job.
Think you forgot the handcuffs at 2:23 :D Now seriously, this was awesome, well done!
Awesome dude! Great cg work!!!
Great work my man!!
Nice work man great CG cant help but ask more...
This is incredible my dude
This is just spectacular. The compositing work shows just an incredible attention to detail. I recently worked on a video about Uprising so I've been seeing what else is out there and I'm so glad I did!
Tron Lives
Well done fellow calleague.
I absolubtly love it
THIS WAS FREAKIN' SPECTACULAR!!! Seriously Accurate to the first Episode!!! I'm just so glad there are other TRON Fans out there ^w^ #TRONLIVES
A M A Z I N G
This is incredible
Man this is a labor of love, no doubt!
Nice work man good job
Keep up the good work.
I really hope this gets the attention it deserves !!!! I NEVER thought I’d get to see anything impressive from Disney after the show ... lol so I was right and holy crap is it AMAZINGGGG tyyy
Dude!!! This is so great!
@LeoTierney
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers Captain!😁
Well done!
Great work!! That was a lot of fun to watch! :D
10/10
this is amazing dude
Nicely done Leo. Great work as ever. I wish I had a fraction of your talent for this stuff.
It just lacked a proper CGI, rest everything is great. And hoping that you make more out of it!
This makes me moist. Keep up the good work mate!
Absolutely outstanding... love it.
KK,I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS!! 💙^💙
Amazing Leo, wonderful work!
This is pretty good, I think it could have worked as a TV series. The costumes are a little cheap, but the production looks great. Maybe use CGI for parts of the costume to make it look more authentic. The Iron Man suit we see in the MCU movies is completely CGI so it is possible, especially since you are already making so much of this CGI. The helmet would be the first thing I would do since it moves a lot like the iron man helmet where it retracts. That’s very hard to do with real special effects but not with VFX. I would also try to do some more complex light patterns on the suit and more details on it as well. I think the minimalist cartoon style doesn’t always transfer especially on characters. Tron Uprising was always pushing detail anyway, look at the light bikes and train where they put so much thought into the design. The actor is okay, but beck is more of a teenager in the cartoon and doesn’t have any sort of beard. I suppose that’s the least worrying problem though. It shows how well the short was produced though. The only time it became obvious that the scene was CGI was when Beck is in the interrogation room and it’s not a close up because the green screen is easier to spot. It’s a lighting issue which shows why CGI would help the characters. I could definitely see Disney making something of this caliber for a show, I think Agent Carter had a lot of similar shots in terms of quality.
Lovely stuff :) ___ Love the tank treads on the light cycle.
It's a good low-budget attempt...i'll give it that.
Do The Whole Show And Beyond.
Are You Making This Into A Series????