Does anyone know how to find a programmer to implement something simlar to the RotoShop program used in Waking life & A Scanner Darkly?

This article describes a little about how the artist programmed over quicktime, Probably simlar to how DVFilm uses quicktime to render 60i to 24p.

http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/23423/Rotoshop_Animation.html

Rotoshop isn't for sale to the general public but certainly could be duplicated by another programmer I would think.

Anybody interested in chipping in Money to hire someone to do this?

Depending on the size of your project, you may check out Adobe CS2. Illustrator comes with a nice new vectorizing/trace tool that could be used in a frame-by-frame process to accomplish what you want. I'm sure this could handle a smaller project especially if automated.

Nope, not looking for an automated computer filter. I really, really like the look of scanner darkly & I'm sure if there was a filter to accomplish it they would have scrapped their labor intensive rotoscoping & interpolating approach.