A SCANNER DARKLY
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- restlessdesign0
like a said nadnerb, there was manual work, but they DID use some type of script to get started. i talked to a guy who's friends with one of the production artists that worked on it.
robert downing jr even said on letterman how long it took to render 1 second of footage and it came down to about 9 minutes per frame if I remember correctly. Nobody could possibly illustrate a picture in that time. But tweak it and clean it up? Probably...
- PonyBoy0
besides my fav movie of all time Blade Runner was based on his novel.
aliceblue
(Jul 25 06, 11:11)Enter response:
WOAH!!!!! Blade Runner is a-okay w/me too... I had no clue there was any inspiration pulled from it on this story... now I'm intrigued.
As for rotoscoping - it's progmatic in a lot of ways (meaning the computer DOES fill in a ton of gaps... but it does require a lot of hand work: http://www.wired.com/wired/archi…)
"Originally developed for Waking Life by MIT grad Bob Sabiston, the program was updated for Scanner: It has a few hundred thousand lines of new code and a couple of dozen new commands. It's proprietary and few people know how to use it."
Here's the creator's website - I recall NT talking about this a few months ago... and as you can see - he's really willing to share the proprietary soft. created while at MIT:
- jaylarson0
"besides my fav movie of all time Blade Runner was based on his novel." - ponyboy
i am a little under caffeinated, so sorry if i interpreted this wrong. but pk dick did both stories...
i would like to see this, but I think it can wait till dvd or a good version appears online.
peace,
j
- aliceblue0
fyi guys
The film was shot and edited.
Then it was transferred to quicktime for the animation.It took up to 500 hours to make one minute.
The Style Guide for each character is amazing
- aliceblue0
besides my fav movie of all time Blade Runner was based on his novel.
aliceblue...meaning one of his OTHER novels ...sorry for confusion.
(BladeRunner was based on
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?")
- st33d0
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a very mediocre novel. It is the best adaptation I've seen next to Fight Club. Both are improvements on the originals.
I'm personally waiting for someone adapt The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. P. K. Dick is quoted as saying that the character Palmer Eldritch was based of a vision of the devil he saw in the sky...
- aliceblue0
P. K. Dick is quoted as saying that the character Palmer Eldritch was based of a vision of the devil he saw in the sky...
st33d(Jul 25 06, 14:19)
well he was into hallucinogenics
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- stuff0
This is quite funny
http://www.flatblackfilms.com/Sc…
- fooler0
It's way cooler than Waking Life.
I actually hated that movie.I guess Phillip Dick lived with a bunch of meth tweekers so it's kind about that but with a sci fi twist.
Anyone notice that all the close ups of electronics (e.i. Headphones, remotes, watches) have a PHILIP logo instead of PHILLIPS logo in honor or the writer Philip K Dick
- fresnobob0
I guess Phillip Dick lived with a bunch of meth tweekers so it's kind about that but with a sci fi twist.
fooler
(Jul 25 06, 16:21)
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Actually, he was a meth tweaker, among other things...
- Tara0
a quote from a stupid girl in the book which is genius
"Best line from the book: "If I'd known it was harmless, I would have killed it myself."
- aliceblue0
a quote from a stupid girl in the book which is genius
"Best line from the book: "If I'd known it was harmless, I would have killed it myself."
TaraTara
(Jul 25 06, 17:12)this one is pricless, too:
"Where there's dope, there's hope!"
- mscot0
paycheck was also an adaption of a dick shortstory, so was Minority Report... although the movies aren't great (except blade runner) dick kicks ass, maybe they could make a movie from the Valis trilogy...
- Mishga0
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/…
huummmm....nice.
- aliceblue0
great link Mishga -
did you check out the officail site? - kinda fun.
- Mishga0
the site is a little messy...but still amazing.
curious about the movie...
- DanielLaskowski0
"maybe they could make a movie from the Valis trilogy..."
it would be way too difficult! VALIS is absolutely mindblowing - I can't see how they could transform it into a movie... unless there was some pretty genius movie director around
- fooler0
I didn't know Minority Report was a Philip Dick novel. I really like that movie. Never saw Paycheck.
- st33d0
Minority Report weren't no novel it was a short story, and the character was nothing like Tom Cruise. Just like the character in We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Total Recall) was an office worker and no character came out with great lines like:
"Screw Youuuu!" *holding drill
"Makes me wish I had three hands!"
"I'll blow this place up and be home in time for Corn Flakes."
- Jaline0
I liked Minority Report as well.