From ‘Ne Zha 2’ to Hand-Painted Animation, Chinese Cinema Is Rewriting the Rules

With 93,187 screens, a surging box office and an animated film painted almost entirely by hand, China is making its presence ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Why the 10-Year Odyssey of Making Hand-Painted Feature ‘Loving Vincent’ Was “Nothing” Compared to the Directors’ Follow-Up ‘The Peasants’

Having not particularly enjoyed the novel as a teenager, DK returned to it while making Loving Vincent, listening to the audiobook while painting one of the frames. “And it touched me much more deeply ...
China Internet Information Center

Hand painted film animation celebrates Van Gogh

A team of Oscar-winning producers is working on a film about the life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh. Called 'Loving Vincent', the film will be a feature-length painted animation. That's ...
CNET

Animated Van Gogh film returns to Kickstarter

An oil-painted, animated film about the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh has returned to Kickstarter with a more modest funding goal. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science ...
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Disney Brings Back Hand-Painted Aesthetic in Upcoming CGI Film

For decades, Pixar has been at the forefront of computer-generated animation, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in 3D filmmaking. From the groundbreaking realism of Toy Story to the intricate ...
FirstShowing.net

First Trailer for Hand-Painted Animated Romance Film 'Bombay Rose'

"One act of love can change everything." Cinestaan Film Co. has revealed a trailer for Bombay Rose, an animated feature playing in the Critics' Week section of the Venice Film Festival starting later ...
Variety

‘The Peasants’ Directors on How ‘Loving Vincent’ Follow-Up Takes Its Groundbreaking, Hand-Painted Animation Style to Another Level (EXCLUSIVE CLIP)

With the long-awaited follow-up to their Oscar-nominated animated feature “Loving Vincent,” directors D.K. Welchman (formerly known as Dorota Kobiela) and Hugh Welchman revisit the striking, ...
Hyperallergic

A Hand-Painted Animation Tells a Moving Story About Depression

Suzan Pitt, “Chichicastenago Parrot” (1989), watercolor on paper, framed, 11.5 x 14.75 inches paper, 21 x 24.5 inches frame (all images courtesy Hunter Shaw Fine Art) LOS ANGELES — The words ...