> It looks like critics of Tron's visual effects mistakenly thought the computer was generating it all for them, with little human input,

I no longer remember the details but I certainly didn't get the impression that "human input" vs "no human input" was the actualy criterion.

And this line to me is meaningless unless we have specific definitions of what the Christ Wedge meant by "animation" and "just effects"

> “[That’s] because the Disney animation department didn’t believe that this was animation,” he says. “They thought it was computers just making effects. They just didn’t understand anything about it.”"