This animation consists of 12 597 handmade aquarelle paintings, each painting is approximately 1,5*3cm in size. Together they form my 35 minute long paraphrase on the motion picture Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott.
Blade Runner, director Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece, is the greatest science-fiction movie ever made.
Go watch the director’s cut version by any means possible. The movie follows Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who’s tasked with hunting down a gang of rogue androids.
There is action.
There is philosophy.
And the whole dystopian cityscape looks like a brooding Impressionist painting.
Which makes this tribute by artist Anders Ramsell, a 30-plus-minute “paraphrase” of the film done in more than 12,000 aquarelle paintings, especially moving.
It’s the washed-out, surreal feeling the movie already cultivates, but reinterpreted
“Blade Runner – The Aquarelle Edition” follows the original movie´s storyline but I have taken the liberty to change a lot of things. It was never my intent to make an exact version of the movie, that would fill no purpose. Instead I wanted to create a something different and never before seen — “The Aquarelle Edition”. – Anders Ramsell
