Do we need hand painted animation?
<p>The 2017 film <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3262342/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Loving Vincent</em> </a>by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorota_Kobiela" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">DK</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Welchman" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Hugh Welchman</a> was the first ever hand-painted feature film. Animated in 12 frames per second, each frame being its own individual painting, the film paid homage to the one of a kind art style and artistic techniques of Vincent Van Gogh.</p>
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<p>A poster for Loving Vincent, via Breakthru Films.</p>
<p>This is what we’ve all heard about this movie: it required a stunning <strong>400</strong> artists, <strong>65000</strong> paintings, <strong>7 </strong>years of work.</p>
<p>But was all that hard work necessary?</p>
<p>Soon the film will no longer be alone in the “hand-painted” category. In the Fall of 2023, the Welchmans are returning with an adaptation of the Nobel-Price winning Polish classic, <em>The Peasants </em>by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw_Reymont" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Władysław Reymont</a>.</p>
<p>The book was written in a very significant time for Poland: <strong>period of partitions</strong>. From the late 1700’s to <strong>1918 </strong>the country didn’t exist on the maps. However, Polish people still lived in the areas of their old lands. This event was word-shattering only for magnets. For simple peasants, life did not change much. Those people were never included in the political life of Poland. The Eastern-European <em>farm and serf economy</em> relied only on their farming; <strong>they couldn’t vote</strong>,<strong> </strong>didn’t have access to any education or healthcare. What’s most important, <strong>they were never the owners of the lands they worked on</strong>. That changed in the <strong>mid 1800’s</strong>, when because of the peasants’ rebellion, they were <em>enfranchised</em>. From then on, the most important thing for all of them was <strong>who owned</strong>, <strong>how many</strong> and <strong>what lands</strong>.</p>
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