Animated Trailer for “Looper” by Noah Fisher and Zachary Johnson

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An excellent piece of motion picture promotion, created by animator Noah Fisher and artist Zachary Johnson, for the upcoming Bruce Willis/Joseph Gordon-Levitt sci-fi action adventurer Looper:

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  • Drew

    What kind of animation is this? Looks painted. I’m guessing someone painted the panels and another person animated it?

  • Sotiris

    Painted? Yes. But animated? Not so sure. Is rotoscoping considered animation?

    • http://www.cementimental.com Tim Drage

      Long story short, yeah.

  • Mr. James

    Not sure WHY this was created? Was someone paid to create this? Seems like a waste of budget when it shows nothing of the film or why I should care to go see it. I’m not saying the imagery isn’t interesting and visually beautiful on a lot of levels, I’m just questioning the purpose of the piece and why it was created in conjuncture with the film’s marketing?

    • Justin

      The guy that painted it, Zach Johnson, is the director’s cousin. He’s painted posters for each of his movies, and I would guess that maybe he did this because he could. And maybe his cousin had a bit of the budget leftover to throw his way.

  • Mike

    This reminds me of last year’s Wild Life, though where that film used hand-painted frames to create a unique aesthetic that worked for the story, this one feels rather arbitrary.

  • http://www.animationisart.com Philip Wesley

    While, I am not really sure I would consider this to be “real animation;” I would love to see the entire movie done this way. I thought the techniques used on Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly helped them immensely and I would like to see a version of Looper that was done in this style. It wouldn’t be a success in theaters; but I still want it.

  • Taylor

    Not generally a fan of rotoscope work, but I’m a sucker for anything done by hand, especially with paint and ink work like this. Blows away all those shiny vector works.

    As far as the debate goes, here’s a be-all-end-all statement…..Animation is the illusion of movement. This is an Animation. However, rotoscope work isn’t Animated, despite resulting in an Animation. To Animate, would be to give life to. Film/Video footage already has life/motion, so we aren’t GIVING anything in that regard. We’re simply shifting the life from one state to another.