Rotoscoping

A Scanner Darkly, directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly monitored by intensive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic involving a 'Substance D'. To give the film its distinct look, the movie was filmed digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope over the original footage like Linklater's earlier master piece 'Waking Life' ... In the future, America has lost the war on drugs and a highly addictive illegal drug called Substance D, made from a small ... Read Full Story

Lynda.com - Apple Final Cut Studio 2 Chroma Keying | 2.7 GB Chroma key, also called bluescreen or greenscreen, is the magical process that inserts an image seamlessly onto an entirely different background. Getting the edges of the subject perfect means the difference between a convincing key and obvious chicanery. In Final Cut Studio 2: Chroma Keying, Larry Jordan focuses exclusively on this effect, so a general knowledge of Final Cut Pro and Motion is recommended. He demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of five different keying tools: Final Cut Pro's native keyer, Motion's Primatte RT, Oak Street Software's vKey2, dvGarage's dvMatte Blast and dvMatte ... Read Full Story

Many of us are familiar with rotoscoping . If you happen to see "A Scanner Darkly" or "A Waking Life", both movies are prime examples of this technique. Anyway, the man behind this movie magic decided to create a a software similar to this on his DS. So Bob Sabiston, made inchworm. Inchworm is a passion project that Bob really wanted to see on his DS. Joystiq got their hands on the application, running it through its paces . "And, after reading their hands-on impressions, we're excited about this avenue for creativity on the DS. We just love stuff like this, to tell the ... Read Full Story

It's almost 11 p.m. on Sunday night, which is totally late for me. But I've been playing with our new toy. Yep. Money was spent and now we finally have a printer/scanner in the house. And it's SO MUCH FUN! How can a printer/scanner be SO MUCH FUN? you ask. Well, I've spent hours scanning in old photos and posting them on Facebook. First pics of me as a wee one. And then photos with other Facebook folks. Old pics they most likely haven't seen in a long while, if ever! And then I've been enjoying all the comments. Incredibly enjoyable! Anyway, I have ... Read Full Story

--Justin Rumenapp-- What does a scanner see? That is the titular question posited by Richard Linklater’s 2006 film A Scanner Darkly based on the Phillip K. Dick novel of the same name. Scanners, naturally, are government agents who review the camera footage from 1000s of cameras placed blanketing this future society, observing for crimes. It’s one of the better Sci-Fi films of the 00s, but it’s still grounded in the current era enough for people who don’t like the genre. Like the best works of the genre, it does not focus on SHOOTIN LAZERZ but on ideas. Like all of Phillip K. Dick’s work, ... Read Full Story