

There, backlit animation was finally combined with the computer animation and live action.

Various studios had rejected the storyboards for the film before Walt Disney Productions agreed to finance and distribute Tron.

Eventually, Lisberger decided to include live-action elements with both backlit and computer animation for the actual feature-length film. To promote the studio itself, Lisberger and his team created a 30-second animation featuring the first appearance of the title character. He and producer Donald Kushner set up an animation studio to develop Tron with the intention of making it an animated film. The inspiration for Tron dates back to 1976, when Lisberger became intrigued with video games after seeing Pong. Tron, along with The Last Starfighter, has the distinction of being one of cinema's earliest films to use extensive computer-generated imagery (CGI). The film stars Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer and video game developer who is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer where he interacts with programs in his attempt to escape it also stars Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, and Barnard Hughes. Tron is a 1982 American science fiction action- adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger from a story by Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird.
