Flying Rabbit Wrote:
Also, hopefully those who judge such things will judge it on its technological advancements. Rotoscoping was very much an unknown art at that time. The filmmakers/editors had to basically create from scratch programs to animate the scenes in a timely manner. I've done some rotoscoping on my own with a wacom pad and photoshop and its VERY time consuming. I definitely have a respect for them. Also, seeing the technology push forward to Linklater's next rotoscoping film, "A Scanner Darkly" is pretty amazing. Personally, I dig ASD more, but Waking Life is basically philosophy on film. Therefore, it gets more cred.
I get what you're saying and agree, but technically rotoscoping is almost as old as movie-making itself. They just developed technology that made it very economical. I've rotoscoped as well (a few different ways), and while it is very time-consuming, even doing it by hand can take less time than actually animating something by hand, from scratch. That's why in several of the old Disney movies they used it for complex scenes with human characters.
There's a great doc on either the Waking Life or Scanner Darkly disc.
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