visualjunkee:

‘LOVING VINCENT,’ an Animated Film Featuring 12 Oil Paintings per Second by Over 100 Painters

‘Loving Vincent’ will
be the world’s 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 Poland’s BreakThru Films & UK’s Trademark Films.  The film is scheduled for a 2017
release.

• “Every 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.”
• “The 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 Vincent’s famous
  portraits, and the performance of the painting animators, bringing these
  characters into the medium of paint.”
  
• “Loving Vincent is an investigation
  delving into the life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh, one
  of the world’s most beloved painters, as told through his paintings and
  by the characters that inhabit them,”
  
• “The
  intrigue unfolds through interviews with the characters closest to
  Vincent and through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to
  his death.”