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Create Stunning 2D Animations

  • Posted by: Terry Ng
  • on Thursday, February 1st, 2007

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Have you ever wanted to turn your photos into 2D animations similar to the ones popularized in the graphic novel, “A Scanner Darkly?” If so, Director Richard Linklater who performed the animations for the movie will show you how.

“Director Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly impressed audiences this summer with a stunning 2D animation style that mixes heavy blacks lines with shapes of solid color to represent a realistic image. After filming the movie live action, we used proprietary vector software to animate directly over live footage, preserving the likeness and performances of the actors – a process called Interpolated Rotoscoping.”

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  • Unregistered
    • Posted by: rbx6jm7man
    • on February 1st, 2007 at 11:42 am

    frickin’ amazing!

  • vm3z9
    • Posted by: vm3z9
    • on February 1st, 2007 at 12:09 pm

    that’s neat, i’ll give it a try sometime.

  • AllaN
    • Posted by: AllaN
    • on February 1st, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    I wonder if i look good in that style lol. im gonna try it right now

  • haz
    • Posted by: haz
    • on February 1st, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    looks great

  • David
    • Posted by: David
    • on February 1st, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    Time consuming, but anything to do with cel-shading, vectoring or vexeling is tedious work but the results are well worth it.

    Definitely worth trying out.

  • b0unce
    • Posted by: b0unce
    • on February 1st, 2007 at 4:21 pm

    thats awesome

  • AllaN
    • Posted by: AllaN
    • on February 1st, 2007 at 7:12 pm

    Wow, i tried it, too hard to do with photoshop cs2 O_o

  • beni
    • Posted by: beni
    • on February 1st, 2007 at 8:42 pm

    ^aww, i was going to try it with photoshop myself, thanx for the heads up

  • jules
    • Posted by: jules
    • on February 1st, 2007 at 10:35 pm

    That’s pretty cool. Going to have to wait until I have nothing else to do to give this a try.

  • Lenka
    • Posted by: Lenka
    • on February 2nd, 2007 at 5:45 am

    i love vexels
    for example>
    http://www.vexels.net/

  • David
    • Posted by: David
    • on February 2nd, 2007 at 11:59 am

    check out my blacks ;)

    http://img250.imageshack.us/im.....onkde1.jpg

    took me a few hours, on and off haha

  • truthmhz
    • Posted by: truthmhz
    • on February 3rd, 2007 at 8:13 pm

    Nice tutorial.

    Here’s something a friend and I worked on.

    http://clandestinecrew.com/imgs/clan07_post.jpg

    Enjoy.

  • Dexter Kanuto

    If you’ve seen the “Take On Me” song by AHA, you’ll see the similarities. I like the idea that 2d Graphics are recognized since it’s becoming obsolete due to 3D CGI’s today.

  • Dexter Kanuto

    I also see one of those masterpieces as contemporary art with an awestruck price> expensive.

  • Dexter Kanuto

    News: I’ve seen a preview of this kind of movie that has this kind of 2D effects. It starred Robert Downey Jr.

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