Keanu Reeves trapped in a rotoscope machine for 365 days — someone's paying for this.
A behind-the scenes look at the grueling one-year process of transferring the filmed images into the unique animation style featured in the final version of the movie 'A Scanner Darkly'.
Practical Effects
Hand-painted hell — 500 hours per minute of film
Direction
Linklater's mad scientist calm while chaos unfolds
Director
Eric Matthies
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The animation crew used proprietary software called 'Rotoshop' that Linklater's team literally had to invent because nothing existed for this level of hand-assisted rotoscoping.
This 20-minute doc is arguably more interesting than most feature-length making-ofs because it doesn't pretend the process was fun — the animators look genuinely exhausted.
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