Loving Vincent Reached First Goal On Kickstarter

11th March 2014

Oscar-winning producers BreakThru Films [UK/Poland] and Trademark Films [UK] has reached 40,000 GBP goal on Kickstarter.com in the first two weeks of the campaign, to train 40 painters for the world’s first feature length painted animation. Now the campaign it’s heading towards 65,000 GBP “stretch goal” to train the rest 60 painters. The film is entitled Loving Vincent, and will tell the story of the life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the world’s most beloved painters, and will be told through the eyes of the people he painted.

What is truly unique about Loving Vincent is that each of the film’s 56,000 frames will be an oil painting on canvas, using the same technique in which Vincent himself painted…

Loving Vincent is a murder-mystery. The intrigue unfolds through interviews with the characters closest to Vincent and through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death. The film investigates the theories around Vincent’s death. Was it suicide, was he driven to his death by one of the people he was close to or was he in fact shot by someone who so far has remained in the shadows of history.

What is so unusual about the technique?

Cutting edge animation techniques will bring Van Gogh’s work to swirling life on the screen, integrating it into the drama of the story. Viewers will see the paintings they know and love, but from an entirely new point of view.

Forty painters will hand paint 56,800 frames to complete this 80 minute film The production will take two years, and will be made using Breakthru’s patented technology PAWS (Painting Animation Work Stations). Thanks to PAWS, BreakThru and Trademark have been able to reduce the per frame rate from over 2 hours to around 40 minutes, allowing them to make the film in just over a year.

To get a head start on selecting and training our painters, BreakThru Films decided to launch a campaign on the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/438026311/loving-vincent-film-bring-van-goghs-paintings-to-l

Loving Vincent will be completed in 2015, the 125th anniversary of van Gogh’s death.

Please take a look at the concept trailer of the movie:

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