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Waking Life
Waking Life, written and directed by indie icon Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused), is considered the first independent computer-animated feature film ever made in America—an abstract, psychedelic, digital video improv that takes the Disney/Pixar formula and turns it on its perfectly coiffed head. Sabiston and Pallotta, collaborators for three years, have always had that goal in mind, but the major-league debut of Waking Life at the Sundance Film Festival in late January gives them their biggest, most esteemed forum yet: a showcase for an animation style that is unprecedentedly artful. They use computers to paint reality, not mimic it. In that sense alone, Waking Life, made with the help of Sabiston’s homegrown software, swims against the photo-realistic tide. Sabiston’s as-yetunnamed creation—nicknamed “RotoShop” by some Waking Life artists—is so simple that even neophytes can quickly master an otherwise daunting process known as interpolated rotoscoping, in which animators trace over live-action DV footage.
Source: Bob Sabiston / Tommy Pallotta
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Prix Ars Electronica - International Competition for Cyberarts 
