Van Gogh Film Will Be First Fully Painted Feature Film in the World

Van Gogh lovers, have you heard about this? A new trailer has just been released for Loving Vincent, and boy, does it look beautiful. What started as a Kickstarter project a few years ago is now slowly turning into a reality thanks to those who helped back this and the artists who are contributing to it. The film is about Van Gogh’s tumultuous life and mysterious death, but that’s not the remarkable part. It’s that the film is made entirely out of animated paintings in the swirling style of van Gogh’s canvases that makes it so unique. Every single frame of the film is an oil painting on canvas, using the very same technique van Gogh himself used. Over 100 painters have, so far, contributed frames to the project, which is still in progress at a studio in Gdansk, Poland.

Over 120 of van Gogh’s iconic paintings are folded into the story with the plot that was woven together from 800 letters written by the artist himself. Oscar-winning studios BreakThru Films and Trademark Films are producing the project. If you’re a high-level oil painter and are available from now till August 2016, you can be trained to be a part of something epic. Check out this website for more information.