TRON Legacy Lightcycle Modeling Concept

Lightcycle model can be found in my FREE Tron Vehicles pack here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20209817/Tron%20Vehicles%20-%20By%20Angler.digital.zip

This lightcycle was designed using reference photos from the internet, and a lot of ideas came from the video of the real street legal light cycle that a custom shop did (just search youtube for it). This design is certainly not perfect as I don't have a lot of experience in modelling.

The animation was done in Cinema 4D using splines with rails for the energy walls. It took a long time to get the animation right because splines suck! I never get smooth animation with splines.

The rest of the compositing; glow, optical flares, explosions, etc were done in After Effects. Music is of course Daft Punk's awesome TRON soundtrack, "08 The Game Has Changed", and other sound effects were taken from the movie.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• light
• cycle
• rinzler
• flynn
• tron
• tron legacy
• intro
• movie
• film
• animation
• after effects
• cinema 4d
• c4d
• adobe
• 3d model
• the grid
• lightcycle

[CheerForTheRobots]

when you animated the bike on the spline, how did you get the curve on the bike as it went round corners?

[MindbendStudios]

@CheerForTheRobots I hand animated the bike's rotation, using the spline for position. The floor is just a plane with a texture.

[oo00SAMB00oo]

This is cool; if you haven't already, have a read of 3D World mag - issue 138 had a Tron lightcycle tutorial - from concept to animation etc.

[MindbendStudios]

@oo00SAMB00oo Thanks! I do have that mag, and it is definately on my to-do list, but it's Maya and I haven't had a chance to really sit down and learn it yet, and the tutorial wasn't a step by step. So many programs, so little time!

[TalentSpotter83]

Extraordinary mate. I love the way you did the explosion and the custom intro job you did with your other video. Incredible. Well done!

[CheerForTheRobots]

how did you get the floor?

[RadioPivot]

Did you work on the Disney studio during the post-production of TRON:L? Becouse you really should've.

[TheCursedBanana]

@MindbendStudios how u did the light on the back of the motorcycle and how u motion tracked it so good

[MindbendStudios]

@TheCursedBanana From what you have seen what would you like to see a tutorial on? I don't have much time to do a full blown tutorial on this, but maybe share my techniques on some parts of it.

[TheCursedBanana]

@MindbendStudios alright doesn't have to be modeling just try and do some aae tutorials :)