Movie Poster Monday: YEAR OF THE FISH
While WALL-E continues being hailed the new standard for animation excellence, today’s movie poster is for an alternative animated style: rotoscoping, in which live action footage is “traced” over. The film is Year of the Fish, a Sundance 2007 selection and festival favorite from Boston to Dallas to San Francisco.
Rotoscoping results in a type of “animated reality,” where details look true, but everything has a painted-type of quality. Think of Richard Linklater’s approach to Waking Life. In Year of the Fish, this style adds a dreamlike element to a Cinderella tale that takes place in modern-day NYC Chinatown.
Year of the Fish stars Ken Leung (scene-stealer in Keeping the Faith, Kid Omega in X-Men: The Last Stand, Miles on ABC’s Lost), relative newcomer An Nguyen and veteran actor Randall Duk Kim (The Keymaker in The Matrix Reloaded and the voice of Oogway in Kung Fu Panda)
If you want to see rotoscoping in action, check out the Year of the Fish trailer.
Year of the Fish hits New York City theaters August 29, 2008.
(thanks IMP Awards and WildAboutMovies)
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