Tron Legacy: the Other Props

[MrSinistar]

I've found recently a high res promo pic of Barnard Hughes, where I could see some more details. But still I'm very unsure about little greeblies. Here's mine...

Got some pics from the Blu Ray. The greeblies on the ID seem to be two "L"s.

Also, Lora's ID is difficult to read, but it almost looks like it says "Dr. Lora S. Morgan"...weird, lol.

 

[Megatron]

ONE SHEET (1sh)
The most common and MOST COLLECTIBLE type of American movie poster. Nearly all one sheets printed before 1985 measure a full 27" x 41". Most recent one sheets are approximately 27" x 40". Please be aware that sizes can vary quite a bit sometimes and that posters do not have to measure EXACTLY 27" x 40" or EXACTLY 27" x 41". One sheets are always in a vertical format. Up until the early 1980's, most (not all) were issued folded with one vertical and three horizontal creases. Some were issued tri-folded. Still used in theaters today and now always issued rolled. The standard U.S. poster.

HALF-SHEET
A horizontal format American movie poster, measuring 22"x28", generally on thicker stock paper. Newer ones were issued rolled, older ones were issued rolled and folded (folded twice-not considered a defect). Usually VERY RARE compared to a one sheet or insert. Studios stopped issuing these in the early 1980's.

but I think the tall and skinner one is base on the real one which is 14" x 36"

the other real TRON posters are 27" x 41"

 

[Brucelee42]

Thanks for the poster breakdown! (us newbies need to know!) When I looked at the reference on the disk for the space paranoids poster, it shows it stapled to the side of a crate, it looked a lot smaller, so that is why I wondering if it was a smaller format. Plus its really not a movie poster, but a game anouncement......and, the original scale of the image was 14 x 20 ish, but you can never tell if that was how it was printed.

BTW is this the one you want to see done?

 

[Megatron]

game announcement poster
Pole Position II poster (23.5" x 35")
TX-1 (Atari's multi-screen driving game) poster (22.5" x 34")
Crystal Castles poster (23.5" x 34.5")

but then again this is TRON and in the TRON world Kevin would want Big movie style posters hehe

Yes the Tall skin poster

 

[YenChih Lin]

Got some pics from the Blu Ray. The greeblies on the ID seem to be two "L"s.

Also, Lora's ID is difficult to read, but it almost looks like it says "Dr. Lora S. Morgan"...weird, lol.

Hey thanks! Yeah it looks really like a "LL" - is this the original blu-ray size? And it's weird to see Lora S. Morgan, although her name's Lora Baines.

 

[Megatron]

I just notice Kevin is wearing Dainese Motorcycle boots, spotted the log on the shin near the final scene just as CLU jumps the bridge. Now to figure which one

 

[Brucelee42]

Cleaned up the Tron Skinny poster, in the paper props forum....

 

[PAPER]

I'm going to move forward with this now. Should have the print in hand in a few weeks.

I will start a JY thread when it arrives.

Clu Disc Wars Arena XYZ Orientation Balls

Any updates on these ???

 

[itsalive]

I'll start a JY soon. I'm a perfectionist. I had an idea on how to insert a a23 battery into the balls post. I'm trying to rework the design to make sure this will work out.


I've had issues with the chip as well. I wanted to offer something better than a simple decal, but I cant find anyone who can make it work the way I want it to.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised because the film had to do a few tricks to pull it off.

I could fab the chips and smart card as a single object in 3d- recess all of the chips the line work. Get it printed and then send it to a pin maker to do the same thing Kevin did to make his chip, but the smart card part wouldn't have that brushed aluminium look the real one has. It would have the same nickel plated metal sheen and shine as the chips. The pin people would also refuse to do enamel fills in the smaller lines under the circles and the thin lines with in the circle.

A pin guy I sent my chip art work to in the past decided to thicken my line work for the enamel filled areas. I told him that wouldn't fly. So that ended that approach. They would have been too thick to fit on both sides of the smart card anyways, so I'm glad it didn't work out.

 

[Megatron]

I'll start a JY soon. I'm a perfectionist. I had an idea on how to insert a a23 battery into the balls post. I'm trying to rework the design to make sure this will work out.


I've had issues with the chip as well. I wanted to offer something better than a simple decal, but I cant find anyone who can make it work the way I want it to.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised because the film had to do a few tricks to pull it off.

I could fab the chips and smart card as a single object in 3d- recess all of the chips the line work. Get it printed and then send it to a pin maker to do the same thing Kevin did to make his chip, but the smart card part wouldn't have that brushed aluminium look the real one has. It would have the same nickel plated metal sheen and shine as the chips. The pin people would also refuse to do enamel fills in the smaller lines under the circles and the thin lines with in the circle.

A pin guy I sent my chip art work to in the past decided to thicken my line work for the enamel filled areas. I told him that wouldn't fly. So that ended that approach. They would have been too thick to fit on both sides of the smart card anyways, so I'm glad it didn't work out.

its not to hard to do the "enamel" fills by hand- its almost the same process as aging something. Fill the areas with the color (model or car touch up paint) you want, carefully wipe any extra off the surface or you can let it dry and use FLITZ polish to take off the extra.
just as a note: real enamel is glass now a days most places use epoxy or epoxy like paints.
You could offer them up to those how want to add the color themselves

 

[itsalive]

Don't you you need to fire the enamel in a kiln to cure it? I think the enamel is usually applied with a syringe. I don't know. The person I tried to work with kept changing my art work, and then I found out the real prop used decals with a die struck ring insert in the center. I wanted to emulate that but I still feel like it will look cheap, it wouldn't last long as a wearable item, and I don't want to manually cut that ring area out of every smart card. I'm just being honest here.


The ball and the bomb are still on the menu!

 

[Megatron]

Don't you you need to fire the enamel in a kiln to cure it? I think the enamel is usually applied with a syringe. I don't know. The person I tried to work with kept changing my art work, and then I found out the real prop used decals with a die struck ring insert in the center. I wanted to emulate that but I still feel like it will look cheap, it wouldn't last long as a wearable item, and I don't want to manually cut that ring area out of every smart card. I'm just being honest here.


The ball and the bomb are still on the menu!

the glass enamel is the kiln fired stuff not many places do that, the whole item has to be enameled front and back to prevent cracking on the enamel, the base metal of those pin is copper. It is Cloisonne enameling style but most modern pins are fake Cloisonne style.
Cloisonné - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

All the pins you see now are epoxy which is a reactive cure..few use the light cure stuff (cost a lot- same tech dentist use for fillings).
Now a days enamel can mean epoxy to paint depending on the maker.

 

[RooBee]

Does anyone knows which backpack Sam uses when he enters the ENCOM building at the beginning of the film? I know it "evolves" into a parachute, but I always suggest it was a backpack anyway during the filming process.

 

[livdaws]

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[Brucelee42]

I have one of those cubes Clu was playing with... It is made out of wood, you could easily have some custom ones made out of metal, or paint a plastic set with some high quality paint. I really love the TRON movies so i am happy to contribute to each thread

Thanks for contributing!

Here is where you can get the ones used in the movie - Cubes

 

[Brucelee42]

Does anyone have a better screen grab of the encom version of the skinny poster? Was just noticing that in the pic, would be easy to modify the poster that I did to recreate this one as well, just cant read the blue writting or make out the fonts used....

 

[PAPER]

I'm going to move forward with this now. Should have the print in hand in a few weeks.

I will start a JY thread when it arrives.

Clu Disc Wars Arena XYZ Orientation Balls

Any NEW updates ???

 

[Homecine]

here my new "prop" presentations (missing on pic: Castor's Cane :cool):

and the "Custom ID Card" prototype:

more coming soon...

greets
MAXX

 

[Mr. THX]

well done

 

[Stefan Jones]

@ Homecine : great display. how did you do them ? especially the lightning ??