Trailer
Just watched the trailer for the film adaption of Phil K Dick’s novel, ‘A Scanner Darkly’. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Winonna Ryder, Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jr in a tale of split personalities and drug abuse.
I’ve yet to read the book, but the story sounds great and the method of filming is spectacular.
The studio filmed the actors digitally, then using a proprietary piece of software called ‘Rotoshop’ to vector rotoscope each frame. The result looks phenomenal and captures the nuance of movement that sometimes animation can lose (though it does depend on who’s animating a feature), mixed with some wonderfully detailed backgrounds by graphic novel artists creates a real visual treat.
I’ll be watching out for it for sure.