Loving Vincent: A Feature Film With Animated Paintings

Directed by Dorota Kobiela, who is also a painter, ‘Loving Vincent’ will be the world’s first feature film showcasing oil canvas painted animations.

The movie, brought to you by Oscar winning studio BreakThru Films, will explore and analyze the intellect and sanity of the celebrated artist, Vincent Van Gogh, and the circumstances leading to his brutal death.

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The Plot

Loving Vincent attempts to unravel the mystery behind the controversial demise of universally acclaimed painter, Vincent Van Gogh, through his paintings and the characters in them. It is an investigation per se, but one that will blow your mind when you witness his intense artwork coming vibrantly to life.

Vincent’s last letter reads, “Well, the truth is, we cannot speak other than by our paintings”, and highly influences the plot. His 800 letters guide us towards all the people in his life, as they are interviewed. Their elaborations give us a deeper insight into his emotional well-being, or the lack of it.

 

Why It’s Impressive

This sensual media creation narrates the entire story visually with his world-renowned works of art. How? By using the oil-paint-on-canvas animation technique.

Although every movie is a series of images, this one is unique because the images continuously transiting are actual paintings by Van Gogh. This is called stop-motion paintings and it will leave you spellbound.

56,800 Paintings?!

Yes! The film will be developed by putting together 56,800 painting created by 40 artists worldwide.

The production team devised PAWS (Painted Animation Work Stations) to facilitate this process and allow the painting to be a bigger focus for the artists than the animation.

 

 

Via: kickstarter.com