astercontrol:

I have been thinking about that “shadows of hands on the chest” drawing challenge or whatever and briefly considered doing it for some of my Tron blorbos but then I realized Tron programs don’t have shadows and this is messing me up lmao

guess their nips are just gonna be totally visible except programs don’t have those either lmfao hahahahahahaaaa

On Further Consideration!

…I think there is actually a canonical basis for what sort of light-physics an Encom-style Tron “shadows of hands on the chest” drawing would follow

And it’s this

Essentially: The way that human actors were inserted into the world of TRON (1982) involved:

• everyone being filmed in black-and-white, on a black background, wearing black-and-white costumes…
• and then replacement, in post, of all the dark areas in the film

ideally, the backgrounds were supposed to be replaced with whatever the scene background was. And the dark areas on clothing were supposed to be replaced with the character’s circuit color

HOWEVER

the process was imperfect, and so we got some delightful glitchy scenes where something else happened

Like, “the shadow of Flynn’s tunic on his thighs” being treated like “background”

And, well. you know how I love to interpret all the fliming glitches in this movie as canonical computer glitches in-universe

So. That’s why it’s canon that

• Nobody in the Encom computer casts a shadow on their surroundings
• However, parts of their render (their body/clothes) can cast shadows on other parts of their own render
• And those shadows are rendered as see-through glitch spots where the background is visible through the body

So. Canonically, an Encom program’s “hand shadows on the chest” would, in fact, obscure whatever’s naturally on the chest

But they would do it by making the program’s chest invisible in those places.

Please someone draw this I would love it