A Scanner Darkly

Snowfly

So it's still a long way until movie day, but I'm really looking forward to this one. Philip K. Dick novel, Richard Linklater's directing it, the visuals are awesome, and this morning I found out the score is being done by Radiohead...and trendy as it is to bash Keanu, I think he does well in roles like this.

I'm not a marketing plant, yo

MoP

Yeah, I thought the trailer looked pretty damn cool. Anyone got the link to that again?
So is it all rotoscoped? Or some trendy procedural filter? Or mocapped cel-shaded 3d models? I'd opt for rotoscoped myself but it just seems so time consuming...

Snowfly

It's up on apple. And yahoo movies if you prefer windows media.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/ascannerdarkly/

I'd assume it's the same technique used in "Waking Life" but slicker, so yeah it's probably rotoscoping. Months and months on end of artists tracing over low production footage. The results are fantastic tho.

hawken

I think there might be a lot of filters going on here, doubtfull that it's mostly hand traced.

Keanu does play some roles well, but don't forget johnny mnemonic. He was terrible in that!

poopinmymouth

Actually one of our UI artists here worked on Scanner Darkly, and it was mostly hand traced, very few filters.

Program used is called Rotoshop GET IT! rotoscope = photoshop HAHAHAHA... er...

aesir

that gonna be in theatres?

(and I feel sorry for the people who had to trace that... sooooo boring.)

Neo_God

Yeah, I'm sure that is boring to do, but it probably has much more interesting results than if you were to use a filter.

It's done by the same guy who did waking life, so I would assume ,it's still in the same style. But I have a feeling the style will stay consistant throughout the movie, rather than in waking life when midway between segments they'd obviously switched artists.

Wells

This looks pretty cool. First I've heard of it.

Looks like the rash of car insurance ads that have been showing; they all have that rotoscoped look for some strange reason.

Snowfly

Yeah those those ads are kind of weird and gimmicky, but the style should fit the movie since the characters are paranoid and junkies..often their visions are indistinguishable from the real world. Great design choice, imo.

gauss

some people in this thread are starting to sound like the people who think mocapping is like doing a push-button magic solution for animation yes, rotoscoping is "tracing," but i'm sure getting the results they have takes more than just running a filter, let's have some respect for other CG professionals

definitely looking forward to this one as well. Linklater has had a long and varied directorial career at this point, and while i'm not exactly keen on seeing keanu again, so long as he's wrangled properly (such as in the first Matrix) he's fine for uh... "acting."

though producing a film like this certainly creates some oddities. apparently, there's a scene in the film where winona rider's character is topless--but she wasn't actually topless, the animators had to dream themselves up some breasts for her talk about an interesting challenge at work.

Tulkamir

Hmm... I'm gonna see the movie, looks interesting, but I seem to be the only one who doesn't like the art style? Seems to me that from the trailers I remember it'll get somewhat annoying.

aesir

I dont entirely like it either tulk. I also dont really like mocap in animation... but yea. Still, the story looks fun.

flaagan

reminds me a lot of the newer charles shwab commercials.

SHEPEIRO

"though producing a film like this certainly creates some oddities. apparently, there's a scene in the film where winona rider's character is topless--but she wasn't actually topless, the animators had to dream themselves up some breasts for her talk about an interesting challenge at work. "

do you think they had to add some extra erm "acting" to keanu, might aswell if your tracing it by hand

JKMakowka

Yeah... can't wait for that movie.
It is supposed to be pretty true to the original book by PKD, and I am a huge fan of his books (but I haven't read a scanner darkly yet).

Peris

If i`m not mistaken there`s only one Thom Yorke track on the score, and it`s off of his solo record. Is the rest of the score done by Radiohead, then? I`d be surprised, given the fact they`re also recording their new cd, and aforementioned solo-cd.

edit: fuck, peris is logged in. This was me, Pea!
I don`t think Peris even likes Radiohead
it`d be cool though

Eric Chadwick

Wired had an interesting article about the production of this thing, and how crazy it got. Can't find it on their site though, it was in the print rag.

EarthQuake

Yeah cant wait for this, watched waking life recently and i just made me want to see this even more.

Snowfly

pea: yeah, yorke got a track in, and i read that radiohead declined. a classical music trio is doing the score instead...

and as for the movie keeping to the essence of the book..the last scene in the book can be played by no one but keanu! and winona's character is a cheapskate shoplifter. hot damn even the casting crew got it right..