Warner Independent Pictures has launched the official website for the upcoming "animation-on-top-of-live-action photography" feature A Scanner Darkly starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochran.

The website, www.scannerdarklymovie.com, is feature-rich with the following items:

- Webcam in the surveillance page: Users can connect their own video device to transfer their live image onto the page.

- Personalization: The user's name and location can be entered to automatically populate in the test activity (room 203) and AIM.

- Tracking: The site tracks all your activity, i.e. type and duration of viewing, mouse clicks etc. again, mimicking the movie experience.

- Custom components for Ecard and Fanart: Users can send ecards and create their own art for display and grading.

A Scanner Darkly is set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. It is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K. Dick and his own experiences.

Like a graphic novel come to life, A Scanner Darkly will use live action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process (interpolated rotoscoping) to create a haunting, highly stylized vision of the future. The technology, first employed in Richard Linklater's 2001 film Waking Life, has evolved to produce even more emotional impact and detail.

A Scanner Darkly was released July 7th, 2006 and stars Rory Cochrane, Robert Downey Jr., Mitch Baker, Keanu Reeves, Sean Allen, Cliff Haby, Steven Chester Prince, Winona Ryder. The film is directed by Richard Linklater.