A Scanner Darkly animation research

1. A Scanner Darkly
Sam and Jack

2. Who?
• Richard Linklater was the director of the film.

3. The Techniques
• The animation was based on actors
performances as the actors first acted the
scenes out before the animators turned the
acting into a animation. They were against
green screen which is when an actor just acts
in front of a plain screen which is less
realistic.

4. Techniques
• A program called rotoshop uses the animation
technique called interpolated rotoscope,
which originally used cel animation where by
tracing over film frame–by-frame.
• Rotoscoping is a very artist intensive form of
animation because it takes 500 hours to
render 1 minute of footage into animation and
computer-generated backgrounds and figures.

5. The purpose of their work
• The purpose of the animation film was to
make a animation film based on the book A
scanner darkly written by Phillip. K. Dick.
• The film tells the story of identity and
deception in a near future dystopia constantly
under intrusive high-technology police
surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction
epidemic.

6. Quotes from Reviews
• “Often startling and engrossing, but the
question of what the heck is going on, and
why, is never entirely absent from your mind.”
The Guardian

7. Here’s a clip from behind the scenes of
the film.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS6jgYZnH
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