I saw the images posted for "A Scanner Darkly" and I wanted to make that effect on some of my pictures. I actually ending up drawing a lot of elements by hand using vectors and only using one filter (glow effect, I think) and messing with some settings. Took me about an hour or two to do it. So I went from this:




To this (click on it because the forum resized it which makes it look messy):

Well done

Nice work. Now imagine having to do it hundreds of thousands of times, over every single frame of a 90 minute film like the animators had to for the film. No wonder the film's release was delayed so many times.

Ouch, they actually hand-drew it frame by frame? I thought they ran it thru a video processing program.

Well they drew it on computers, but it's not like they used some program to sort out everything for them. In the Making Of DVD featurette, I think they said each minute of film took thousands of man-hours. Whatever the figure was, it still took a long time to do, they also had to draw over the actors faces and still be able to project their expressions which is probably considerably more difficult than drawing over objects like cars.