This looks like a TON of work. I hope I'm wrong, but it seems like their 100 oil painters just replicated the filmed frames of a movie. Not to say it isn't impressive, that's more painting than I...
This looks like a TON of work. I hope I'm wrong, but it seems like their 100 oil painters just replicated the filmed frames of a movie. Not to say it isn't impressive, that's more painting than I could even imagine, but artistically it seems like tracing? I didn't see anything that seemed elevated by the oil painting medium, anything conveyed in any of the paintings that wouldn't equivalently be conveyed with a movie frame. Strange example, but Joel Haver's youtube animations are just rotoscoped color blobs but that at least lends a different character to the visuals that I think elevates the end result. Stop motion takes way longer than CG animation, but the added fidelity of models and lighting can lend a tangibility that looks and feels different.
This feels like turning on an "oil painting" filter on the camera that is otherwise filming a regular period drama. I hope I'm wrong and they utilize their medium in a cool way, but I didn't see anything to indicate that in the trailer. It just seems like a man-hours labor flex.
I had similar thoughts while watching the trailer: for one, that they could have had incredible special effects (dragons, spaceships, shapeshifting, all kinds of sci-fi/fantasy stuff that would be...
I had similar thoughts while watching the trailer: for one, that they could have had incredible special effects (dragons, spaceships, shapeshifting, all kinds of sci-fi/fantasy stuff that would be expensive and probably not look great in CG with live actors) since it was all animated. My other thought was that honestly, I'd prefer to watch the original filmed version that it looks like they painted over. The way the brushstrokes change between frames reminds me too much of AI-generated video and would just serve to take me out of it.
That said, it really does look like they put a ton of effort into it, and I hope it does well enough so we can see some of the above eventually.
This looks like a TON of work. I hope I'm wrong, but it seems like their 100 oil painters just replicated the filmed frames of a movie. Not to say it isn't impressive, that's more painting than I could even imagine, but artistically it seems like tracing? I didn't see anything that seemed elevated by the oil painting medium, anything conveyed in any of the paintings that wouldn't equivalently be conveyed with a movie frame. Strange example, but Joel Haver's youtube animations are just rotoscoped color blobs but that at least lends a different character to the visuals that I think elevates the end result. Stop motion takes way longer than CG animation, but the added fidelity of models and lighting can lend a tangibility that looks and feels different.
This feels like turning on an "oil painting" filter on the camera that is otherwise filming a regular period drama. I hope I'm wrong and they utilize their medium in a cool way, but I didn't see anything to indicate that in the trailer. It just seems like a man-hours labor flex.
The filmmaking team had used this style for their previous film Loving Vincent.
I had similar thoughts while watching the trailer: for one, that they could have had incredible special effects (dragons, spaceships, shapeshifting, all kinds of sci-fi/fantasy stuff that would be expensive and probably not look great in CG with live actors) since it was all animated. My other thought was that honestly, I'd prefer to watch the original filmed version that it looks like they painted over. The way the brushstrokes change between frames reminds me too much of AI-generated video and would just serve to take me out of it.
That said, it really does look like they put a ton of effort into it, and I hope it does well enough so we can see some of the above eventually.
jesus… hand painted. that’s an unbelievable feat and it looks like it pays off.