Yeah this is the second film that Richard Linklater has done like this. The first was Waking Life in 2001. It's a pretty incredible technique. You can shoot really low budget because the rotoscoping is really what you see on screen. I know that the way Waking Life was done is with a custom solution developed by an Austin TX company called Flat Black Films and it's based on Quicktime. There were promises of making a commercial version of the App but I dunno what happened to that plan, because as far as I know it never happened. Even so even with this software the process is very labor intenisive. Each frame is digitally hand drawn. The closest thing I could come up with was importing movies into Flash and then using the (inadiquate) flash vector tools to trace each frame. This was the most effecent way I could come up with and it wasn't pretty. There are ways of getting an animated looking effect that are much less labor intensive either using photoshop actions and quicktime or right within Final Cut Pro. But none of them really look as good as the look you're going for.
Bill Streeter LO-FI SAINT LOUIS www.lofistl.com --- In [email protected], Steve Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Rich, > You sure are making me do a lot of Google searches this morning. > > That movie looks really cool: > > <http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/ascannerdarkly.html> > > On Oct 8, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Rich Hand wrote: > > > Okay, so now I sound like a complete dweeb. The thing I am trying to > > do is make my digital video look like the "animated" like version > > similar to the recent Keanu Reeves film "A Scanner Darkly". > > --Steve > -- > Home Page - http://stevegarfield.com > Video Blog - http://stevegarfield.blogs.com > Text Blog - http://offonatangent.blogspot.com > > Like Paul Revere, leading the citizen's media revolution. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
