Watercolor animation of Blade Runner

Swedish artist Anders Ramsell animated 3,285 watercolor paintings to recreate this sequence from Blade Runner. "Blade Runner Aquarelle Edition, Part 1 (Teaser)"

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Andrew Singleton

Have to admit. I almost think this was done with filtering rather than hand drawn watercolors. The Police station scenes were almost unviewable from the point of view offiguring out what was going on.

However I have to take my hat off to the guy for giving this sort of mix job a try. He tried, and wasn’t afraid of sharing. So I must admire that.
http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan

Aquarelle audio too?
- http://twitter.com/cocktail_shaker The Mixologist
  
  No, that’s the original sound track.
  - http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan
    
    I wondered if the audio should have been similarly treated. Perhaps soaking it in fashionable 78 rpm noise would be equivalent to ‘water colouring’ the sound.
Antinous / Moderator

Rendering a frame from Blade Runner in any paper-based medium was one of my homework assignments in design school. I suspect that’s a pretty common assignment since it’s so atmospheric.
- David Pescovitz
  
  That’s cool, Antinous. You should scan and post!
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    I don’t think that I kept that one.
Boundegar

Pretty, but impossible to watch.
miasm

This is what Blade Runner looks like when I dream about remembering it.
DewiMorgan

Cannot tell if genuine art, or troll with photoshop filter.

…and also, wondering whether that distinction even matters.
- http://www.kmoser.com kmoser
  
  Looks like real art to me. I can tell by the watermarks, and from having seen many artworks in my time.
  
  But seriously, the 4 fps practically gave me a seizure. Looks like Bill Plympton on acid.
shiftdelete

If that IS a photoshop filter, I WANT it!

It looks very authentic, but many of the frames make me wonder why more attention isn’t on the figures and faces when other details are there. It could be artistic interpretation w/ negative space. But I also seem to sense some patterns in the art as the frames change.
smallteam

It reminds me of the first copy of BR that I had — a blurry 2nd- or 3rd-generation dub from a VHS tape recorded from cable TV….
Diogenes

Wanna see a watchable effort? Watch Frédéric Back’s “The Man Who Planted Trees” on vimeo.
http://profile.yahoo.com/54ZGXGRCD4TRTG3ND6SMP2VBKU Anne

It’s not a filter. Since there are still people out there who actually use old fashioned art tools like watercolor and know the difference between a filter and the actual watercolor medium, I would say this is definitely watercolor. Not every artist out there is a slave to PS and not every awesome piece of art or photograph you see has to be Photoshopped. Geezus….
andre paris

really well done