Firstly, I'd like to apologise if this post is in the wrong place, but after looking through all of our forums here it seemed the most obvious place.

If you're interested in rotoscoping, or even interested in what the heck rotoscoping actually is, then I'd like to point you to a short interview I've just done with Bob Sabiston.
For those who don't know, Bob was the Head of Animation on the recent movie "A Scanner Darkly" and is the inventor/developer of a piece of software called Rotoscope which is exclusive to...

Oh what the heck!  If you're interested I hope you find it an informative and fun read. :lol:

http://www.planit3d.com/source/interviews/sabiston/bob_sabiston.html.

Attached Link: http://www.planit3d.com/source/interviews/sabiston/bob_sabiston.html

fixed the link for those using browsers with stricter DOMs. so that's how they did it! I heard it was a nightmarish pain in the butt, and having tried to do it in poser, I can well understand. anyway, thx fr the link, and reminding me to check netflix to see if they've got it yet.

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

I remember that some guys had a computer and a webcam in the Emerging Technologies floor at SIGGRAPH, and they would somehow turn what the webcam saw into a cartoon-like image... pretty much like what they did for this movie... the interesting part is that they did it in real time O_O

Awesome, thanks for the link. . .very cool.  Love the effect

That's very cool. I was looking forward to the release of the movie but dissappointed it was only a limited release. I believe it'll be out on DVD within the next couple of weeks but it still looks like something that would have bee awesome to see on the big screen!

That explains why it didn't come to my country...

DVD out prior to xmas. some video filters (e.g. posterise, poster edges, find edges, et al.) can do it in what would look like "real time" on a fast machine, but these require considerable tedious postwork to get rid of unpleasant artifacts.