[Hai Mac]

I am currently completely nuts about 'A scanner darkly', novel written by my favourite sci-fi writer Philip K.Dick. I just finished reading the book and I somehow found out that they are making a movie based on this. I saw the trailer and some pictures and I think that it's going to be reaaaally good .

I just created this topic to see if there are any Dick fans too, to share my enthusiasm !

Some good links:

• Trailer at Apple.com
• Some pics
• information about the movie
• information about the novel
• A scanner darkly at IMDb.com

Edited by Hai Mac, 19 April 2006 - 11:20 AM.

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i'm interested to see how they're new electronic "rotoscoping" is gonna go over...i like the concept...(read an article in wired about the custom software they used for it)...it looks really interesting (i loved the movie "waking life" which was filmed in the same manner)...the concept of taking either digital or regular photography/cinematography...then completely replacing that image with a drawn version is VERY nifty...allows for alot of leeway creativity wise..

[dsenette]

i'm interested to see how they're new electronic "rotoscoping" is gonna go over...i like the concept...(read an article in wired about the custom software they used for it)...it looks really interesting (i loved the movie "waking life" which was filmed in the same manner)...the concept of taking either digital or regular photography/cinematography...then completely replacing that image with a drawn version is VERY nifty...allows for alot of leeway creativity wise..

[fleamailman]

"Cool..." said the goblin "...my sort of film, thanks for posting it then."

Edited by fleamailman, 19 April 2006 - 02:41 PM.

[warriorscot]

So they filmed it normally then basically drew an animated version on top, interesting, so there would presumably be a "normal version" of the film with no rotoscoping, it would be cool to see both and see the effect the differences make.

[Hai Mac]

I firstly thought they shot it normally and used some software to convert it to this "Trace Bitmap-sorta-style" (Flash 5 users will know what I am talking about ). But then I read somewhere that they shot everything just in 6 weeks and then spent almost year and a half to redraw the whole thing!!! I was just wow! That's amazing (amount of work)!!
Just to warriorscot, the normal version is really boring, the actors didn't have makeup on and all the setting is simply drawn. All artificial like Star Wars.

[dsenette]

I firstly thought they shot it normally and used some software to convert it to this "Trace Bitmap-sorta-style" (Flash 5 users will know what I am talking about ). But then I read somewhere that they shot everything just in 6 weeks and then spent almost year and a half to redraw the whole thing!!! I was just wow! That's amazing (amount of work)!!
Just to warriorscot, the normal version is really boring, the actors didn't have makeup on and all the setting is simply drawn. All artificial like Star Wars.

all correct....
they shot stuff in parking lots and empty studios and stuff like that...in normal people's clothes......all the goods were done through the special software...all the scenary and makeup and wardrobe is fictional