"A Scanner Darkly" how did they DO this?!

theres a trailer for this movie here but its gotta be one of the most visually unique things ive ever seen! my first thought was it was just "cel-shaded" CG like you see in so many video games these days but they seem to have actually filmed it live action and then done...something to it. its crazy. cant tell if the story will be any good but i wanna see it even just for eye candy purposes alone

I imagine computers were used.

Oh, I made it.

It looks like the same technique he used for Waking Life. They just film it, then layer on the animation using a plain ol' Apple G3. Sort of like Rotoscoping. But it's really time-consuming, if I remember correctly, I think it took them a year to do the animation for Waking Life. The actual filming was done relatively quickly.



[Edited on Mar 09, 2005 by stockula]

keanu reeves in a tech drama... shocking

It doesn't look as bad as I thought it might. I'm still personally horrified by the animation / cell shading they used for the animated Lord of the Rings in the 80's and have been suspicious of that style ever since.

I actually got a chance to see Linklater do a demo of this technique live. It took an animator like an hour (maybe) to do some shit they filmed before the demo. It was awesome. All they do is film live action put it onto a computer and draw over it.

yep. new generation of the software and a new team of 35 people tracing it. there's a whole lot of warm fuzziness surrounding the idea of a Philip K. Dick novel being hand drawn overtop of some cool actors.

ok, keanu reeves notwithstanding, that looks fucking brilliant!

Keanu Reeves withstanding, I think it looks pretty damn good. My tolerance for bad acting must be seriously out of synch with everybody else's, because I don't think he's all that bad at all. Sure as hell not the worst.

Let's recalibrate. How many people thought Cary Elwes in Saw was laughably wretched? Show of hands.

Cary Elwes was beyond the valley of the bad in Saw.

That was literally the worst movie I have ever seen.

I never thought I'd say this... but





Stockula is right.

FYI. Don't watch "Waking Life" after drinking 10 pints guinness.

really? i always thought Ralph Bakshi was considered a minor genius for that stuff. i thought it looked awesome! as did American Pop...

ah well, diffr'nt strokes and all...

the program they use for it is a propietary program created by the artists behind Waking Life.

If you're interested in the technique, pop in the DVD for Waking Life and check out the ultra fucking boring behind the scenes doc of the creator going through the creation of one particular scene on the computer. its dull, but informative...

word.

suh weet

Really? I thought he was terribly convincing as an American doctor who... may or may not have done.... something..... with his wife..... or colleague....... or whatever....... OMFG HE'S CUTTING HIS LEG OFF!!!@#!@$$@~~~~#!@#@1111

That movie gave an entire audience spastic colon. So bad.

Whoa..that looks really cool.

Was done with computers. Old news. He did the same thing, just a little more trippy like, with Waking Life.

I'll plunk down money to see it. The idea of a Waking Life type film with a definable plot is appealing. Then again, Linklater directed, so we'll see. He is capable of creating a narrative film, just not in some time.

He said it. I didn't have to.
There might not be a god. But at least there is a little mercy in the world after all

School of Rock was like two years ago, wasn't it?

Yeah, well, you know what? Princess Bride. There, he breaks even just with that.