āLOVING VINCENT,ā an Animated Film Featuring 12 Oil Paintings per Second by Over 100 Painters
āLoving Vincentā will be the worldās first feature length painted animation, with every shot painted with oil paints on canvas, just as Van Gogh himself painted. Written & Directed by Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman, produced by Polandās BreakThru Films & UKās Trademark Films.Ā The film is scheduled for a 2017 release.
āEvery one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who traveled from all across Europe to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production.ā
āThe film was first shot as a live action film with actors then hand-painted over frame-by-frame in oils. The final effect is an interaction of the performance of the actors playing Vincentās famous portraits, and the performance of the painting animators, bringing these characters into the medium of paint.ā
āLoving Vincent is an investigation delving into the life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the worldās most beloved painters, as told through his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them,ā
āThe intrigue unfolds through interviews with the characters closest to Vincent and through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.ā
