The internet can give you good things sometimes! Over on Mastodon, user vga256 posted that he had found a copy of a work by Anders Ramsell.
According to vga256, Ramsell released a 35-minute cut of Blade Runner twelve years ago, where each shot is an aquarelle painting he did after work each night. In an example of amazing dedication, Ramsell reportedly completed 12,597 paintings in total. It took him two years to do so.
“[T]he video circled around the web for a few years, and quietly disappeared from every single site it was hosted at,” vga256 wrote, adding, “a few months ago i spent a few hours digging for it, and finally found a copy of the original file.”
vga256 was kind enough to share where he found the video via Internet Archive, and you can now also view the 35-minute video at your leisure by following the link here.
1982’s Blade Runner is, of course, a classic example of noir sci-fi, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, and Daryl Hannah. Based on the Philip K. Dick novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? it’s deservedly recognized as an iconic work of SF.
Ramsell’s art is also stunning piece of work, and another example of how fandom can create wonderful things.
