The Animation of Waking Life Richard Linklater accomplished a vision that he had almost scrapped until the immergence of a new technique in rotoscoped animation. Waking Life is a film infused with the power of animation that takes us through a journey of dreams and makes one question their own reality. The method of animation used was the step to making this powerful piece of cinema a reality and would not have happened without it. …showed first 75 words of 827 total…

…showed last 75 words of 827 total…subject matter.” All this combined led to the film breaking barriers as the first-ever independent feature-length animation movie. Waking Life is a film that uses animation and its technique of rotoscoping to its fullest. The animation clearly states and accomplishes the films concept of dream walking and the concepts behind each characters philosophy. It is a film of questions that may never be answered and is a journey of 30 different artists’ visions of the world.