Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Contemporary Connection - Waking Life (movie) & Charles Schwab (tv ads)

Click the link to view the trailer for Waking Life. This style is similar to your upcoming vector portraits!

"Waking Life is a digitally enhanced live action rotoscoped film... released in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame."

"Animators overlaid live action footage... with animation that roughly approximates the images actually filmed. A variety of artists were employed, so the feel of the movie continually changes, and gets stranger as time goes on. The result is a surreal, shifting dreamscape. The animators used inexpensive "off-the-shelf" Apple Macintosh computers. The film was mostly produced using Rotoshop, a custom-made rotoscoping program that creates blends between keyframe vector shapes (the name is a play on the popular bitmap graphics editing software called Photoshop, which also makes use of virtual "layers"), and created specifically for the production..."
- Wikipedia

Charles Schwab commercials also use a similar technique. Both the movie and these ads were worked on by a local MIT media lab designer.

2 comments:

  1. the link didn't work for me...

    i don't know about the others

    i'll see if other sites help out

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