{"id":1549,"date":"2012-06-20T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T18:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2012-08-27T19:01:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T23:01:53","slug":"reading-monkey-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2012\/06\/20\/reading-monkey-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading A Monkey Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

In looking for a film to fit into the\u00a0I Can Read Movies<\/a> assignment, I decided would start by repurposing my initial Monkey House vector graphic<\/a> and work with Terry Gilliam’s 1995 film, 12 Monkeys<\/a>. \u00a0Like Gilliam’s 1985 film, Brazil<\/a>, the film is set in a dystopian future, but also introduces the wrinkle of time travel. Visually stunning and mind-bending, the film is worth viewing if you haven’t seen it.<\/p>\n

I decided to work at extending my skills using Illustrator by trying to recreate the graphics template from the original book series<\/a>. While that was easily doable, the further task of “aging” the book put a bit of a crimp in my timeline. I tried following the Photoshop tutorial<\/a> by MOME, but struggled to get the right textures, and so, in the interests of time, I sought out some aged paper textures on the Internet, and eventually settled on Old_Scroll_Texture_II_by_Isthar_art<\/a>, going back to Illustrator to get a partial effect. Unfortunately, of necessity, the layering put the effect under<\/em> the text, so the text and images on the cover don’t really look aged to match the paper.\u00a0However, as I was getting ready to post this, I decided to go back and try the tutorial once more, and managed to figure it out in Photoshop. Maybe I was sleepy the first time!<\/p>\n

So here are two versions. First the Illustrator-only version, and second, the fiddled-with brushes-in-Photoshop version.<\/p>\n

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“I Can Read Movies: 12 Monkeys” by aforgrave, on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

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“I Can Read Movies: 12 Monkeys” by aforgrave, on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

However, in doing a bit of research into the movie, I came across an amazing antecedent for the film, discovering that Gilliam’s film was actually a re-make\/re-imaging of a quirky black and white still-motion sci-fi film from 1962 by Chris Marker, entitled La Jet\u00e9e<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Searching online revealed a section of the film. Check it out.<\/p>\n