STOP MOTION SAVES RENAISSANCE BLOCKBUSTER BUCKS

(VIDEO) Renaissance director Christian Volckman saved blockbuster dollars to make his animated film with stop motion technology.

Director Christian Volckman whose first foray into animation was as director, writer, actor and producer of the French short Maaz makes his sophomore effort with Renaissance, a futuristic animated film for adults. Christian discusses the monetary advantages of using motion capture technology to flesh out the characters.

Stop motion also gave Christian the opportunity to use his imagination to its limits in Renaissance which opens today in theaters.

“The idea behind Renaissance is to try to make an ambitious film which is very close to live action but uses a different technology. For example in Europe we don’t have a lot of money and to make a film like Renaissance in live action would’ve been practically impossible because you have car chase going throughout Paris. You have a lot of sets, a lot of characters and motion capture enables you to do all those things that in live action would be completely crazy and you would have to do a blockbuster and with animation it’s a little different.”