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Posted by Patrick Sauriol on Thursday, January 6, 2011

If you're a producer or a movie studio/production company executive putting together a big film that will require extensive special effects, you're going to want to watch several demo reels. Put together by special effects houses to showcase their latest work, these demo reels are meant to impress the decision makers. Often they are the deciding factor for why a studio will spend tens of millions of dollars with a certain FX house. In showbiz effects, you're only as good as your last job, and that's why new demo reels are constantly being made by FX companies all the time.

One of the major FX houses to work on Tron Legacy was Digital Domain. Their work was instrumental in achieving the realization of the computer world and in making a 60-year-old Jeff Bridges look like his 32-year-old younger self, and it makes perfect sense that Digital Domain would want to put together a demo reel showing off the groundbreaking work they created for Tron Legacy.

Curiously, someone has uploaded the DigDom Tron Legacy demo reel to the internet. It can be watched at YouTube and Vimeo, although for how long the copies will exist is anyone's guess. As far as I could tell, it doesn't look like the Legacy demo reel was an authorized release. For now, you can watch and see how the company created several sequences in the Disney movie, including spoiler scenes such as the ending. A fair amount of material also shows the performance capture work that Bridges did for his CG version of Clu.

It's cool to watch, especially if you've already seen Tron Legacy and were wondering how much CG the actors had to deal with when doing their lines and action.