"Loving Vincent”: last shots in Wroclaw [PHOTO]

Final shots were taken in costumes but without stage design, as the latter is going to be created with Painting Animation Work Station technology, which combines traditional painting with animated film solutions.

"Loving Vincent" is the world's first full-length feature film created in painting animation technology. The film elaborates on the life and the mysterious demise of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most eminent and best known painters. Armand Roulin, a boy who was portrayed many times by van Gogh, takes the audience for a cinematic journey through the painter's life. The entire film is based on the idea to present conversations with people who knew or met the artist and posed for him.

Vincent also from Wroclaw

The film is produced by BreakThru Productions, a Polish company set up by Hugh Welchman, the Oscar laureate for the short-length feature animated film "Peter and the Wolf" (2008), and Trademark Films, a company established by David Parfitt, who has 9 Oscars and 26 Oscar nominations under his belt (for "Shakespeare in Love", "The Madness of King Geaorge", "My Week with Marylin"). The film is co-produced by the City of Wroclaw, Odra-Film and the Centre for Audiovisual Technology.

The film's director Dorota Kobiela also wrote the script in collaboration with Hugh Welchman and novelist and poet Jacek Dehnel. Final shots are now being taken at the Centre for Audiovisual Technology in Wroclaw. Previous shots, which featured the main cast, were taken from 27 April to 11 May at Three Mills Studio in London.

They will paint the painter's life

"Loving Vincent" uses Painting Animation Workstations technology to lend a new lease of life to van Gogh's paintings. The scenes featuring the actors are first recorded and then displayed on canvas, frame by frame, to help the animation painters to transfer the images in oils and in the style of Vincent van Gogh. Around 60 painting animation artists are going to create 57,600 frames/images for the film.

The main cast of "Loving Vincent" is as follows: Douglas Booth (Jupiter Ascending, The Riot Club, Noah), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones, Ripper Street), Emmy-winner Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids, English TV series The IT Crowd), Oscar-nominated Saoirse Ronan (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lovely Bones, Atonement), John Sessions (Filth, The Iron Lady), Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark, Death Comes to Pemberley, The White Queen) and Aidan Turner (Poldark, Hobbit).

The film will be premièred in 2016 in Wroclaw as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations.