[SFS] The Kinematograph

Francis, a modest city clerk and self-taught inventor had -seemingly - everything he wanted. A great house in a small town, a lof of spare time and a loving wife.
Unfortunately, he also had obsession about inventions.
The latest invention of Francis had to be a revolution. He had to change the world, start a new era.
Francis was a perfectionist so he polished every element, each detail with precision encountered only at geniuses and madmen.
He called his invention 'Kinematograph'. Francis believed, that when he finishes his job, he will be happy. He only forgot that happiness does not last forever.

Realization
The making of a short film turned out to be a real challenge for the Platige Image team as they had never had to face anything like that before. About fifty graphic artists took part in this enterprise. For almost a year, they were working on bringing Francis the Inventor's story to life on the screen. 270 processors at a total power of 675 GHz, i.e. one third computing power of the whole Studio. The film includes 17,250 frames, 40,000 frames in strips. 5,000 trees with 10,000 leaves and 100,000 polygons each were created in the computers' memory. There are eighteen characters and seventy-four props in "The Kinematograph”. The whole film weighs over 1.5 terabytes.

My commentary 
Gorgeous render, with a lot of backgrounds and hand-painted textures in short film based on Polish comic by Mateusz Skutnik.
Another great production by Polish animation studio - Platige Image - shows us the curse of perfectionism and what really matters in our lives.
I don't think if I have a right to criticise the animators but I think the lip sync could be more exaggerated. Or maybe it is made on purpose..
Baginski told that their aim was to create as much realistic light as possible and I think they did great!

Great inspiration for character design.






Source:
Pressbook