Film director Richard Linklater has produced some films using a rotoscope effect which I looked at. His 2006 film 'A Scanner Darkly' was filmed digitally then animated using interpolated rotoscope over the footage to create its original visual style. I watched the full length film and was really inspired by how it looked and just how effective the technique was.
I also looked at another of his films called Waking Life. I liked the slightly more surreal style of image in this film and the way the lines an edges are less refined and quite blurry. It creates a dream like feel to the film which definitely inspires my ides for my own work.
Another Kanye West video cropped up during my research but this one was for his song 'Heartless'. The video has a rotocoped style to it but I particularly admired the detailed backgrounds used in the video. I liked the way that even though he was formed from simple colours and lines, the backgrounds stand out and are still an important part of the visuals.
During the week I watched Jason Reitman's 2007 film Juno.
This film has influenced my ideas massively as I really like the visual style, the use of colour and black and white and the way she walks past different styles of background. I also thought the movement of the text worked well with the music.
After looking at such a big variety of hand drawn / rotoscoped animations, the Juno sequence really stood out for me and I've decided to use it to influence my ideas further. I think the simplicity of the backgrounds but detailed character animation could be something I could recreate in my own way. I now plan to come up with a more solid narrative and idea for my work now that I have a visual style to work with.
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