Use Adobe Illustrator to Imitate A Scanner Darkly
When it comes to building digital constructs of your dream-like paranoid fantasies, consumer software tools can do just about anything. For example, here’s a way to easily mock up any digital photograph to look like a still from A Scanner Darkly or Waking Life.
Richard Linklater — director of both films — really blew the door open for low-budget computer animation when he and his team of illustrators pioneered a method of rotoscoping video images using consumer-level Macintosh desktops. For the feature films, Linklater’s team used tablet input devices and custom software. But in this short tutorial, Aaron Sacco, one of the animators on A Scanner Darkly, shows you how to duplicate the technique using Adobe Illustrator.
As you can see, the results are stunning. The perfect way to tell your friends that you secretly suspect them of being undercover drug enforcement agents. Also great for holiday greeting cards!
