For those of you who somehow haven't yet heard of TRON: Legacy (coming 17Dec2011) here's a peak at the *awesomeness* (be sure to admire the fine babes and catch the extra eye-candy at the endings)
TRON Teaser CGI (HD)
Official Trailer #1 (HD)
Official Trailer #2 (HD)
Official Trailer #3 (HD)
"Sirens Dress Sam" Clip (HD)
"Quorra Saves Sam" Clip (HD)
A little more CGI troncandy can be seen in the Daft Punk's "Derezzed" music video. Also the game TRON: Evolution has a number of clips and trailers as well.
But I've been asked to do an interesting "mod" ...
A friend of a friend is into cosplay stuff and wants a "Legacy" TRON suit. Now I'll point out that I don't do cosplay at all, in fact I think it's kinda nerdiculous in ways beyond my ken and I can't sew worth a damn and I really see little merit in the whole thing at all beyond sometimes leering at pics of incredibly hawt sexy chicks who costume themselves up.
So this girl wants a black-neon TRON suit and she's going to handle all the sewing stuff herself (it's what she does) - and her albums show she's quite fantastic at it, actually. My job is going to be duplicating the glowy light stuff and handling all the electronics. I can get some cash for doing this. She also wants the helmet, glowy disc, and cape to go along with it and she's apparently capable of making them herself, so again, my job is just to handle the electronics side. I imagine these can all use subtle clip connectors to draw battery power from the "main" suit, except perhaps the disc thing which is, uh, throwable.
(I'll admit I'm so seriously geeked out on this TRON movie that I'm kinda seriously considering doing this job just to get her to make one of these suits for me instead of being paid cash. I'll wait until I see how the movie and her suit turn out, they might surprisingly suck.)
My initial thoughts ...
- EL-wire and LEDs? She doesn't want phosphorescents, she wants self-luminous.
- Battery life should be fairly decent, at least a few hours of continuous operation.
- Shouldn't generate uncomfortable or unsafe heat, radiation, voltages, etc.
- Ideally, the electronics and batteries shouldn't weigh too much.
- I can do microcontroller stuff no prob ... is it possible to shift the colour of EL strips? (The movie clips show red, yellow, green, blue, white, etc)
- Her budget hasn't been stated, but it looks like she's willing to spend about $100-$200 or maybe more (for electronic parts and materials, on top of the $100 she's offering me) on the lighting effects. I've already told her the parts cost shouldn't be that high, though I might be wrong. I thought this seems a bit excessive, but then again, how much do we spend modding PCs?
Any suggestions?