BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels from françois vautier on Vimeo.

Un film experimental hecho de una imagen de 60000x60000, representando 167819 cuadros de Blade Runner.
Perdonen mi cinismo, pero hubiera preferido que el tributo al Blade Runner de Philip K. Dick hubiera sido el Blade Runner de Ridley Scott; me sigue sorprendiendo como algo tan inmensamente lleno de posibilidades como lo es el cine, no le llegue ni siquiera a los talones a las maravillas de la literatura a las que pretende imitar.


Text excerpt, steps de realizacion y techie crap.

"1>first step : the "picture" of the film
I extracted the 167,819 frames from 'Blade Runner' (final cut version,1h51mn52s19i)
then I assembled all these images to obtain one gigantic image of colossal dimensions : a square of approximately 60,000 pixels on one side alone, 3.5 gigapixels (3500 million pixels)

2> second step : an illusion
I placed a virtual camera above this big picture. So what you see is like an illusion, because contrary to appearances there is only one image. It is in fact the relative movement of the virtual camera flying over this massive image which creates the animated film, like a film in front of a projector.

source : Blade Runner de Ridley Scott (the final cut)
durée : 1h51mn52s19i > 167819 frames >>
one picture / format psb : 60 000 X 60 000 : 3 540 250 000 pixels >> 3,5 gigapixels
sound > from the original score by Vangelis
compositing> logiciel : Combustion. Mac pro 2X 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon. nombre de layers : 1!"