Using Pencil Tool and Shapes

Using Illustrator’s pencil tool and shapes of solid color, you can imitate the graphic novel styling of A Scanner Darkly. An animator from the film shows us how.

Director Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly impressed audiences this summer with a stunning 2D animation style that mixes heavy blacks lines with shapes of solid color to represent a realistic image. After filming the movie live action, we used proprietary vector software to animate directly over live footage, preserving the likeness and performances of the actors – a process called “Interpolated Rotoscoping.” This tutorial will show you how I was able to recreate a similar effect using tools in Adobe llustrator. Using Illustrator’s pencil tool and shapes of solid color, you can imitate the graphic novel styling of A Scanner Darkly.

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Select an interesting image for photo reference – the bigger the dimensions of the image the better. Go to File>Place to insert it into your Illustrator file.

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Step 1:

BACKGROUND LAYER
To begin this tutorial, we'll first give ourselves a nice background gradient. Now while most gradients are two-color, in Photoshop you can actually make much more complex gradients by clicking on the Gradient icon in the top left. You'll get a panel showing the gradient and you can add more colors to it. In this case, I've used three colors to make a gradual change from green to a set of blues.
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Here’s a photo I’ve opened that has some issues with perspective. If you look closely, you’ll notice that instead of appearing vertically straight as it does in real life, the hotel seems to be tilting in on itself as it rises upward, making the top appear more narrow than the bottom. The smaller building to the left of the hotel also looks like it’s leaning inward. In fact, everything in the photo seems to be tilting towards some imaginary center point high above the image:

Photos of buildings often suffer from perspective distortion.

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