Get A First-Look At The Rotoscoped Version Of ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is getting a hand-animated rotoscoped version of the film that’s coming in 2027. Fresh in time for Texas Chain Saw Day, we have a still from the film’s new animated version. Check it out below.

Texas Chain Saw Massacre Gets A New Look

The newly released image offers the first public glimpse of the ambitious visual reimagining. Fans looking to see more will have only one opportunity this year: during Texas Chain Saw Day, when theaters nationwide will exclusively present a short behind-the-scenes featurette offering an exploration of the rotoscoping process and a first look at additional hand-animated footage from the film while production is still underway.

An Interesting Choice To Say The Least

The project is being led by Animation Director and Art Director Paul Beck, an Austin-based multimedia artist whose collaborations with acclaimed filmmaker Richard Linklater helped redefine modern rotoscoping. Beck served as a lead animator on Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, and Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, and has exhibited his paintings, sculptures, films, and video installations internationally in New York, Berlin, Brazil, Croatia, and Romania.

The rotoscoping of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE transforms Tobe Hooper’s 1974 masterpiece through the painstaking art of rotoscoping. Every frame will be illustrated by hand using the labor-intensive animation technique in which artists meticulously trace live-action footage frame by frame. Employing no artificial intelligence, the production relies exclusively on the craftsmanship and decades of experience of veteran artists to preserve the performances, atmosphere, and intensity of the original film while presenting audiences with a striking new visual experience.

Audiences will get their first look at the hand-animated rotoscoped version of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE through exclusive exploration footage of the project during the annual Texas Chain Saw Day, presented by Dark Sky Films and Fathom Entertainment, on August 18. For one day only, theatergoers nationwide will see a behind-the-scenes featurette that includes a sneak peek of hand-animated footage from the film while production is still underway.

Dark Sky Films has been busy with projects related to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for a while now. They’ve done a beautiful 4K restoration of the film and the excellent documentary Chain Reactions.

Tickets for Texas Chain Saw Day are available now online and at participating theatre box offices (theatre locations are subject to change). For more information, please visit Fathom Entertainment.

This is an interesting choice but as with anything like this, we’ll have to see to make a judgement when we get actual footage.

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