A movie, called "Tron," was to be a fantasy movie about a person’s journey inside of a computer. It needed nearly 30 minutes of film quality computer graphics, and was an overwhelming task for computer graphics studios at the time. The answer lay in splitting up various sequences and distributing them out to different computer graphics companies.
The two main studios were Triple I and MAGI (Mathematical Applications Group Inc.).
The computer graphics for "Tron" were very good but sadly the movie as a whole was terrible. Disney had put about 20 million dollars into the movie and it did really bad at the box office. This had a negative influence on Hollywood toward computer graphics. Triple I had created computer graphics for other movies such as Looker in 1980, but after "Tron," they sold off their computer graphics operation.
