Something Weird Colormation Screen Test

[SittingMooseShaman]

...hah, hah-hh. ...the heart of the cold-war era! America was 90% LESS of a POLICE STATE then -than she IS today!!! AND there were no DEA-created cocaine-lords... Jeeze! ...ya woulda thought the beat-nicks-cum-hippies would have legalised MJ by now...but, the transferal of 'nazi' n2 the Amerikaan Polit has killed this(just ask Soros & Obama!)...killing a LOT of things today. Just wait 'till, "They" start ripping U-Toob World apart for their 'naziwanna' polit-goals. Artists ALWAYS get burnt 1st!

[mikisunshine1]

FYI, co-creator of this clip, Leon Maurer, passed away June 26, 2011. You can google him or find out more about him at leonmaurer dot tripod dot com. P.S. the process is called Artiscope and yes, it's based on the old rotoscope of the 30s's.

[theshadow1932]

Better get over there, Cap! Her "engines are overheating"! She doesn't look enough like Margaret Kerry, though. And where's Taurus? Kidding aside, they must have been using something like "Cinemagic" as they did in 'Angry Red Planet'.

[Optimalillusion]

So, did the pilot get rescued?

[54calcain]

Wow, Clutch Cargo had nothing on this.

[HEXACO]

Awsome! Why Sin City wasnt made that way?

[godadameve]

Good Grief! I AGREE this is AWESOME, but, let's stop rambling for a minute and THANK somethingweirdcom for it! Everyone in unison (and also in little children's voices:)

THANK YOU, somthingWierddotCOom!

[SomethingWeirdDotCom]

YOU'RE WELCOME! Thanks for all the support!

[jacarto]

Amazing and stylish and elegant. How did they made such an effect in the 60'?

[RustBucketVideo]

This is CRAZY looking!

[michelformika]

TRON a saures

[hamtrak]

Filmed in Amazing, "Roto-O-Scope-o".

[lindosss]

piece of art

[CaptainComrade]

Now filmed in Steranko-Vision!

This would had been an awesome way to do a "Nick Fury: Agent of Shield", series.

[Makoeyesx]

Looks kinda like rotoscoping

[johnny8]

Come on people, Something Weird's reputation stands tall. This is not a hoax.

[Freischuetzdx]

0:58 Barrel Roll

[kingjing]

Scott is a dick.

[piasillo]

Very good ... but a "hoax" 60's video. I agree with reptilianss

[reptilianss]

Think this is a hoax - I really don't believe this is rotoscoped or made in the 60's. Definitely cell shaded 3D. The art direction is pretty convincing though, but there's a 3D/CGI quality to it that dusty filters and scratchy sound can't cover up. You can see in the way the womans hair moves that it's 3D. Most of the movement is natural because it's motion captured. The faces aren't though. Also in some of the intersections on the clothing.

[solowlew]

That's FUNNY!

[MajorDiarriah]

LOL The captain is such an ass. Great clip!

[VICTORIOSSECRET]

Awesome. Come watch our storyboards.

[RogueTruber]

I am guessing hoax - the music and voices seem genuine - the cheesy script and delivery seems authentic 60's, but the way the actors are moving looks contemporary - and the way objects are outlined looks like (digital) effects packages. The space station shading, and the steady frame is a dead give away anyway. Great clip any way up though!

[pegbars]

Umm, read the previous comments. All is explained and can be researched.

[jamierourketen]

that 1st guy looks like a monkey

[ety3]

Interesting.

Why the name Colormation, though, when there's no color to be found?

[MammaleousMaximus]

Insane. Also, I think "A Scanner Darkly" dosen't look this good.

[richragsdale]

fantastic!!!

what a find!

[hollywoodartchick]

making cartoons overly literal is creepy and ugly IMO.

[trylonperisphere]

hollywoodartchick makes snap judgements

[TisimeFilms]

this looks likes it's from ONDEMAND

is it?

[frankdiddly]

"A Scanner Darkly" was done like this except in color. This is an amazing clip!

[masterpiraka]

sin city should have been done llike this.

Digitally of course, frame, by frame, for a whole movie woud be a bitch.

[Booyeah10]

This is really COOL!! *o*

[TheBrunoYouKnow]

Wow, cool technique.

Very sexist though haha

[HamatoKameko]

...That is just freakin' awesome. I'm surprised it wasn't used more.

[Mollesandra]

What in the crap was that?!

[loookas]

It is cellshaded 3D, not rotoscoping. It was crazy to hand drawing every single frame with such precision. Rotoscoping is always little shaking

[aropeofsand]

It's high contrast video from the 60s. It was called "automation"

[therengifo]

Cellshaded 3d...

[richardschumacher]

No need to date it as "circa 1960s". The credits say (C) 1962.

[vonbumpus]

This is a practice in rotoscoping. A technique that's been around since the 30's.

[theEDUCATOR]

A woman pilot? ...crazy kids and their crazy space movies.

[lucyinthesky16]

lol i know. must be from the sixties!

[InuvikPhil]

This looks amazing for the year. They should have done Marvel Comics series like this.

[DoctressJulia]

Wow, that cartoon guy is SEXIST! She should have blown him out the airlock. Maybe she does, in a later episode.... :)

[dimestore1]

I swear that the guy standing in the beginning is Jack Lord!! Can anyone prove me wrong?

[fuxoft]

Sounds like "Vaclav". Which is common Czech (not Russian) name. First name. Male first name. As in "Vaclav Havel".

[manwithnoname123]

"A woman pilot?!! No wonder you're ship's falling apart!"

(after Scott saves her, he gets slapped in the face)

[superoo]

A woman!?

[Ukinojoe]

THIS IS THE BEST IDEA EVER

[checkeredgeek]

Reminds me of Wizards, only not as fun to watch.

[altbast]

Wow...that was...wow...a definite candidate for best cartoon ever.

[MonAlisa29]

Looks like the actors were in heavy make-up and all white clothes with black lines.. but I wonder if it was traced onto cels or isolated from the background another way. Hmm... its really neat, and looks much better than the extremely limited animation that was being done then.

[nostromo99]

SWV always have the stuff that makes you go, 'Holy @#%*!...how old is this? Why wasn't this HUGE?!'

Unbelievable clip. So-o-o-o-o ahead of its time.

Cheers, Something Weird Video!

[solowlew]

I heard that Sam Rami was involved in this production. He's the greatest, don't you agree?!

[devpd]

Reminds me a lot of the indie flick "Renaissance." Looks really cool.

[atomicbear]

The did a similar technique for some video games in the 90's where they took video and ran it through the Poster Outline filter in photoshop and composited the video in AFX. They did a mystery on a train game and a Spiderman game with this technique.

I agree that it's cool-weird. It does look better then some of the CGI stuff.

I don't want to even guess what there make-up on their faces looked like.

[elninorodriguez]

I want to know how this was made!

[trylonperisphere]

Very close to a moving comic book. Much better than the computer rotoscope I've seen.

[alatan108]

Leon/Len Maurer has been quite the crazy renaissance man- you can find a lot about him on Google if you poke around. Wonder if you can still run into him in Central Park?

[pegbars]

This was a varation of Animascope and Artiscope... the ill-fated "animation" process(es) co-invented by Norman Maurer (nephew of Moe Howard of 3 Stooges fame).

[torgman]

I thought he was Moe's son-in-law

[pegbars]

Oh, you're right, he was. Thanks for the correction.

[MadScout]

Kind of like "A Scanner Darkly." Could have made a feature film back then, but it would have too weird.

[gingerbald]

must admit.that was wierd.COOL,but wierd