Tron, Disney
film, 1982, combined live action with three-dimensional
computer animations. It was the first feature film
with over 20 minutes of computer animation, most
of it composited with live action. The story behind
this science-fiction film centered around a videogame
designer who somehow ends up inside the visual world
of his creations and has to fight the game challenges
that he himself created. The topic of this film
also reflected the fact that the popularity of videogames
hit a peak in early 1980s.