The Best Bladerunner Tribute Ever Seen

Sep 10

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Bladerunner is my all-time favourite Sci-Fi film and soundtrack.  There are so many moments in it and the whole feel of the film is very emotive for me.

That’s why I was delighted to discover the video below from quality film maker François Vautier on Vimeo.

An explanation of how he did this is included below too, but if you want to see the video in its full glory take the HD link to Vimeo and watch it full screen.  It is amazing and probably the best Bladerunner tribute I have ever seen.

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

An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott’s legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982)
This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels)
It was made with 167,819 frames from ‘Blade Runner’.

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.