Daniel Simon, vehicle designer on Tron: Legacy recently spoke with Geoff Boucher of Hero Complex. Here are some interesting excerpts.
Daniel on receiving the email offering him the job on Tron: Legacy:
“I left everything behind in Berlin that I had built up, my own car-design studio and everything, and packed a suitcase,” Simon said. “I haven’t been back. It sounds crazy, I know. But to work on ‘Tron’ is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
He also spoke about some of his key creations for the movie:
The Light-Cycles: “There are different versions of the cycles for good guys and bad guys,” Simon said. “The cycles are hybrids of person and machine. That’s the challenge. We had to put so much effort into it. It’s a personal weapon of the people living on the grid. It has a face, the front of the bike, and the lights are shaped to show that. The good-guy and neutral bikes have vertical lights, and the evil bikes have V-shaped lights to represent eyes and expression."
There was a lot more to read about on the Hero Complex website, if you are interested then please go to
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/10/29/tron-designer-we-tried-to-write-a-new-chapter-of-beauty/
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