Do we need hand painted animation?

<p>The 2017 film&nbsp;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3262342/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Loving Vincent</em>&nbsp;</a>by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorota_Kobiela" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">DK</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Welchman" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Hugh Welchman</a>&nbsp;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> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:500/1*UnmtKQjnOq5GRpXmFIIOKQ.jpeg" style="height:735px; width:500px" /></p> <p>A poster for Loving Vincent, via Breakthru Films.</p> <p>This is what we&rsquo;ve all heard about this movie: it required a stunning&nbsp;<strong>400</strong>&nbsp;artists,&nbsp;<strong>65000</strong>&nbsp;paintings,&nbsp;<strong>7&nbsp;</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 &ldquo;hand-painted&rdquo; category. In the Fall of 2023, the Welchmans are returning with an adaptation of the Nobel-Price winning Polish classic,&nbsp;<em>The Peasants&nbsp;</em>by&nbsp;<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:&nbsp;<strong>period of partitions</strong>. From the late 1700&rsquo;s to&nbsp;<strong>1918&nbsp;</strong>the country didn&rsquo;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&nbsp;<em>farm and serf economy</em>&nbsp;relied only on their farming;&nbsp;<strong>they couldn&rsquo;t vote</strong>,<strong>&nbsp;</strong>didn&rsquo;t have access to any education or healthcare. What&rsquo;s most important,&nbsp;<strong>they were never the owners of the lands they worked on</strong>. That changed in the&nbsp;<strong>mid 1800&rsquo;s</strong>, when because of the peasants&rsquo; rebellion, they were&nbsp;<em>enfranchised</em>. From then on, the most important thing for all of them was&nbsp;<strong>who owned</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>how many</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>what lands</strong>.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@andypraus/do-we-need-hand-painted-animation-3b4579e5f9a6"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>