A Scanner Darkly

Post by **rep** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:29 am

http://www.apple.com/trailers/warner_in ... arkly.html

PKD

Post by **l0g1c** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:17 am

Looks like it has a lot of potential, but isn't this cel-shading thing going a bit far?

Post by **bitWISE** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:35 am

Woah...that looks pretty wicked. The cel-shading is really distracting though. Everyone looks like they have quad damage or something.

Post by **busetibi** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:41 am

Post by **rep** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:41 am

That's not cel shading.

Post by **ScooterG** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:47 am

Looks like Photoshop posterizing. Remember Waking Life?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:50 am

darn, Keaneau Reeves (i don't care if i spelled it wrong)

Post by **netrex** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:04 am

I thought it was something about the Primal Scream track.

Looks interesting. Not sure if I like Wynona Ryder anymore though. Hope there will be more music from the Animatrix.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:08 am

looks interesting. I've also heard good things about Phillip K. Dick

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:42 am

2005, year of the visual gimmicks :icon14:

Post by **Chupacabra** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:57 am

mkj hit it right the nail right on the head

im tired of visual gimmicks. i need meat and potatoes, not just potatoes. (this is right about where i would mention sin city, but lets not get into that atm)

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:00 am

...or the laughable Skycrapton

Post by **glossy** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:17 am

I really like the way movies are going, more digital; more and more movies are been shot entirely on green-screens and being composed in post-. I like it.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:15 am

I hope they do "The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" eventually. That was a wicked book.

Post by **Pauly** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:19 am

Yeah looks great

Post by **Eraser** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:51 am

MKJ wrote:2005, year of the visual gimmicks :icon14:

I don't think this (or Sin City for that matter) count as visual gimmicks. The style adds something to the movie or attempts to set it in a certain recognizable style. I think Sin City won't be the same movie without it's visual style.

And I don't think there's many movies taking post processing this far. Other than Sin City and this movie, I don't know of any.

Post by **Pext** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:30 pm

SplishSplash wrote:I hope they do "The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" eventually. That was a wicked book.

yeah... but: is this P.K.Dick as well?

Post by **plained** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:32 pm

ive not seen the movie sky capt and the world of tomorrow yet

Post by **Ryoki** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:39 pm

Me neither, but i was gonna rent it - or is it horribly shitty and shouldn't i bother?

Post by **iambowelfish** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:45 pm

This isn't cel-shading or posterizing or any sort of automatic process. It's traced by hand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscope

Also, gimmick or not, every movie has a style. Something shot on film has a very different style from something shot on video. Some productions just take it further.

Post by **rgoer** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:47 pm

this will be awesome

if you want to see a similar process, check out waking life

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:43 pm

Ryoki wrote:Me neither, but i was gonna rent it - or is it horribly shitty and shouldn't i bother?

visually it's pretty cool. story is ABSOLUTE crap. acting is terrible. to be honest, it has a certain visual flair, but since all of it was shot blue-screen, there's a certain color, intentional or not, on the actors that's quite annoying. the entire film looks like a B&W that's been colorized. so, when i was finished watching it, i muted the colors on my set and i thought it looked better in B&W. :icon28:

Post by **Transient** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:59 pm

rgoer wrote:check out waking life

Fucking ace film. :icon14:

Post by **rep** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 4:58 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:...or the laughable Skycrapton

Hey, SkyCaptain had one good quality: It's HD cameras went on to be used in a high quality television show that was just nominated for a handful of emmy awards.

Post by **Chupacabra** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:07 pm

Eraser wrote:
MKJ wrote:2005, year of the visual gimmicks :icon14:
I don't think this (or Sin City for that matter) count as visual gimmicks. The style adds something to the movie or attempts to set it in a certain recognizable style. I think Sin City won't be the same movie without it's visual style.

And I don't think there's many movies taking post processing this far. Other than Sin City and this movie, I don't know of any.

hm...you see i thought sin city was all style. so when you say the style adds something to the movie, i see it that the style added something to nothing...in which case it would still just be all style. so its all gimmicky to me.

i guess it would be something if the style appealed to me. im just tired and bored of OMFG OMFG OMFG NOIR SO DARK--monologues up the wazoo blah blah blah

cheers if you like it, but i thought it was shite.