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[saraesc]

Mmm another linklater film... It's shot with the same rotoscoping technique used in "Waking Life" and it's based on a philip k. dick book so hopefully it won't suck, despite the choice of actors.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/ascannerdarkly.html

[MuffinMan]

i remember seeing waking life, oh man that was really interesting. i love rotoscoping, it's the coolest shit i've ever seen! i want that rotoscoping program so fucking bad. i gotta see this movie, it looks alot better than waking life, more detail and smoother animation. this will be worth seeing. :confident
check out my avatar, it's a rotoscoped piece i did from the music video of the song "the beautiful people" by MM

[Lono]

im one of the artists on this movie and were staffing up a second wave of artists right now.. the only way anyone gets there hands on the software is by working on the movie.. its propriatary and not available to the public.
you gotta move to austin for this deal. and you gotta have CHOPPS!

i posted contact shit in the jobs section. hit us up hoes!

-Lono

[MuffinMan]

im one of the artists on this movie and were staffing up a second wave of artists right now.. the only way anyone gets there hands on the software is by working on the movie.. its propriatary and not available to the public.
you gotta move to austin for this deal. and you gotta have CHOPPS!

i posted contact shit in the jobs section. hit us up hoes!

-Lono

it's not available to the public? WHY!? you have deeply upset me...this makes me mad that i'm gonna want to download it, illegally...geez...WHY WHY WHY!
i want this program so bad so i can make my own cool rotoscoped movies! :nohope: >:{

[cotron]

you can rotoscope your own stuff by making filmstrips in premiere and painting on them in photoshop... you don't need the program to do rotoscoping. takes a lil while, but so does all animation. I did a 20 second animation in about 2 days this way.

Although, I've heard a lot about that program, it sounds like a really nifty piece of software. You lucky bastid lono :P

[egerie]

Huh.. Lono tell me if I'm wrong but isn't rotoscoping traditionally hand made ? Wouldn't an automated process done by a software to do the same be better called "filtered" or "rendered" ? I'm not saying that you guys push a button and wait the next morning to see what the soft came up with, but I have a very traditional approach to rotoscoping.

Anyhow, it's interesting but I wonder if we're going to be able to handle 2 hours of this. Looking forward to it !

[Lono]

MuffinMan: you cant even download it because it doesnt exist outside of our office. the app was written by Bob Sabiston who use to be the post production director.

cotron: thanks, you should apply.

egerie: your wrong ;), its all hand drawn. all the softwar does is interpolate the tweens. there is no filtering or rendering at all. thats why we have 35 artists sitting in one office and are about to hire 15 more.

[MuffinMan]

you can rotoscope your own stuff by making filmstrips in premiere and painting on them in photoshop... you don't need the program to do rotoscoping. takes a lil while, but so does all animation. I did a 20 second animation in about 2 days this way.

Although, I've heard a lot about that program, it sounds like a really nifty piece of software. You lucky bastid lono :P

damn....your method sounds like a huge pain in the ass...i know a way of rotoscoping with imageready. but the finished piece doesn't run smoothly, kinda jittery.

like my avatar, here's the original piece that i did it from...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/MuffinMan/MM1.gif

[egerie]

egerie: your wrong ;), its all hand drawn. all the softwar does is interpolate the tweens. there is no filtering or rendering at all. thats why we have 35 artists sitting in one office and are about to hire 15 more.
Yikes ! Let me know if you guys need straight jackets in a month or two ;) But honestly, 50 artists for a full feature ? Isn't that too few unless you have a long time ?

[Lono]

well ive been there for like four months now and i think were shooting for an october ship. its deffinately cutting it close but weve accomplished a supprising ammount in 4 months so,, it will get done.. fingers crossed.

-Lono

[bara]

the animation looks really weird, i dont think i like it.

[AngryScientist]

I think I'm the only person on the planet who can't get the video to play. And bah, to be able to move to Austin and work for the movie *happysighs and dreams of being part of a big production*