The New York Times has checkpointed the status of Loving Vincent, an ambitious biopic about Vincent Van Gogh that will incorporate live-action actors into animation created through 62,450 individual oil paintings used as animation cels. Quoted in the article are the husband-and-wife pair of director Dorota Kobiela and producer Hugh Welchman, about the inspirations for the film and the challenges it has raised on raw technical levels and in its production.
95 painters are involved in the project, with 65 of them gathering daily at an enormous hangar at the Gdansk Science and Technology Park in Poland to spend their days crafting oil paintings to bring van Gogh’s original works to life one painting at a time. Creating one frame can take anywhere from an hour to two days, with 12 frames per second required for animating the 87-minute film. Tens of thousands of frames are still left to be created for the movie’s targeted release date in October (so it may be considered for next year’s Academy Awards).
More information can be found at the Loving Vincent official website.
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