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| • | Waking Life is a digitally rotoscoped and animated film, directed by Richard Linklater and made in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists using computers drew stylized lines and colors over each frame. This is similar in some respects to the rotoscope style of 1970s filmmaker Ralph Bakshi.
In a broad scope, Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent dreamlike state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like appearance and reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life. Along the way the film touches on other topics including existentialism, posthumanism, and the film theory of André Bazin. The young man eventually comes to the realization that he is dreaming and that he is unable to wake up. By the end of the film, he fears that he might be dead.
Unsurprisingly, given the above themes and content, Waking Life is much more focused on dialogue (often even monologue) than on plot action. In this emphasis, it echoes the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre. Long sections of Waking Life consist of nothing but shots of one or two people's heads while they expound on some philosophical idea. However, the boredom that such a style might potentially inflict on impatient minds is alleviated by the film's innovative animation techniques. Scenes were first filmed as live action. Using a process known as rotoscoping, animators then overlaid the live action footage with animation that roughly approximates the live action image. Different animators animated different scenes, so few scenes have exactly the same appearance or "feel." The result is a surreal, shifting dreamscape that is as riveting as the heady philosophical ideas discussed.
The animators used relatively inexpensive "off-the-shelf" Apple Macintosh computers (as opposed to expensive supercomputers and computer clusters used by Pixar and DreamWorks). The primary software employed for the production of Waking Life was Rotoshop, a rotoscoping tool that create
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