A Scanner Darkly shot with zr-60?

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Dirty_Ass

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My friend claims this. I think it sounds like bullshit. I know they shot with 3-4 DVX's, but he claims they shot extra 'coverage' with a zr-60 then converted to 24p. I told him he was an idiot.

His name is Monte, btw
 
Well, "Waking Life" was shot with a zr-60 or equally crappy single chip minidv camera. When the entire film is being rotoscoped and the video only needs to provide a guide, its not real important what the actual footage looks like. And "A Scanner Darkly" is made by almost exactly the same people (Linklater; Sandra Adair, the editor; Bob Sebastion, head of animation and creater of rotoshop; several animators) who did "Waking Life", so it wouldn't suprise me if the the zr-60 made a few of the shots.
 
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I concur Seejay :)

That's exactly what I'm saying - since everything is being rotoed and masked it couldnt hurt to get a few pickup shots here and there with a random crappy camera - because in the end it doesn't matter.

Anybody know for sure?

I expressly remember reading they shot bits and pieces with a low end 1 chipper...
 
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The main cameras on Scanner were a couple of DVX's.
There was also a VX2000.
On setups which needed many angles (a lot of "security" footage) Canon ZR cams were used (I can't remember if they were 60's or 80's).

There were a lot of setups done with those. To give you an idea, there were times when about 10 ZR cams were being used at once, all running to individual DV decks. They were shot at 60i and converted to 24P in post. When shooting with the DVX's alone shooting was done at 24P.
 
yeah they said they wanted the frame rates of the drawn over video to be different from one another..... doesnt this seem like a lot of work :p
 
AHHHHH I have been wanting to do this effect ever since I saw Waking Life on IFC!!! I know it takes alot of roto-scoping and time consuming masking, but is there any other way to do this, with even a slightly similar effect?
 
I think this will all be possible in a few years much more easily. You can easily trace stills in a program such as Flash to get an image similar to Waking Life. Doing it with motion images over the course of a feature is much more complicated, but I think it will be easier in a few years.
 
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I think this will all be possible in a few years much more easily. You can easily trace stills in a program such as Flash to get an image similar to Waking Life. Doing it with motion images over the course of a feature is much more complicated, but I think it will be easier in a few years.
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Just to add my thoughts on this, I don't think making it easier will be good for this style. People will use these "easier" tools to kick out really quick movies without the attentive detail of an artists hand on every frame.
 
You're probably right about most people, but some people will take the tracing technology and use the extra time they have to make it better.

I just watched Waking Life again over the weekend and I love how the animation changes with each animator's style.
 
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