View Full Version : The Scanner Darkly mystery
Iceviking
11-01-2007, 04:09 AM
Well I'm pretty sure this is the right place to post this.....Well I'm trying to get this cartoonish scanner darkly look to go with my film. So if anyone has any idea how to do this that would be great, I remember some one on dvxuser posted a short film that looked vary similar to scanner darkly, so I at least know it can be done.
Thanks all.
Luis Caffesse
11-01-2007, 06:47 AM
You might want to do a search for 'Scanner Darkly' on here.
There was a great thread going on just a week or two ago about how to do this with AE and Photoshop.
oneinfiniteloop
11-01-2007, 10:27 AM
If you really want to get the Scanner Darkly look here's how...buy a graphics tablet, export an image sequence of your video or if you have CS3 export a Quicktime, open that in Photoshop, trace and color each frame while following a style guide of some sorts.
Bam!
emretufekci
11-01-2007, 08:05 PM
Scanner darkly was shot on dvx100, then the frames were traced by artists,then they used frame interpolation to create the intermidiate frames and then layered the shots. Yes it can be done but as loop stated it's a lot of manual work. You can use live trace from illustrator but you will have to deal with a lot of noise resulting from color shifting.
Cheers,
Emre Tufekci
www.productionpit.com (http://www.productionpit.com)
tcindie
11-01-2007, 11:27 PM
There's a 3 part podcast series about something like this over at creative cow:
http://cowcast.creativecow.net/after_effects/episodes/CC_Cartoon_Pt1.m4v
http://cowcast.creativecow.net/after_effects/episodes/CC_Cartoon_Pt2.m4v
http://cowcast.creativecow.net/after_effects/episodes/CC_Cartoon_Pt3.m4v
KidSeven
11-02-2007, 01:10 PM
I tried toonits demo online http://www.digitalanarchy.com/toon/toon_main.html, pretty neat. I played around with the simplicity and flatness button to fine tune a clip and it looked awesome.
ellsworth
11-06-2007, 06:35 PM
It's painful. Like stated above, it was all manual labor.
Matt Grunau
11-10-2007, 07:09 AM
I tried toonits demo online http://www.digitalanarchy.com/toon/toon_main.html, pretty neat. I played around with the simplicity and flatness button to fine tune a clip and it looked awesome.
That really doesn't look like scanner darkly though. As Luis said, go to this thread, and check it out:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=112538