More On Christian Volckman's Renaissance!

Here's a brief follow up to yesterday's post about Christian Volckman's stunning animated sci-fi noir Renaissance. Thanks to some links slung this way by Loonatik we've come up with an official synopsis, another scrap or two of information, a much higher resolution version of the gorgeous trailer and a pair of show reels from involved production companies, both of which include some additional footage.

Info scraps first: The animation is based on motion capture techniques carried out in Luxembourg. It looks to me as though they're taking a similar production approach as the recent feature version of Appleseed but using a much different design style. Personally I loved the use of motion capture in Appleseed and I'm itching to see what another group of animators does with the same technology. The total budget for the film was fourteen million Euros.

Synopsis second (and a big thanks to Shinjuku for a remarkably accurate translation of the synopsis on the Renaissance website, posted in the comment threads of the original post), this being an official version lifted from the Luxembourg production company website:

"Paris, December 2037. Ilona Tasuievn, a young scientist jealoused by everyone for her beauty and intelligence, is brutally kidnapped. In a high-tech environment where every action is controled and filmed, Karas, the criticized policeman who’s in charge of the investigation, feels soon a presence around... He’s not the only one on Ilona’s tracks, and his pursuers are ready for anything for arriving ahead of him.

Finding her becomes a question of life or death for Karas, but maybe too for all our civilisation... "

So the premise seems quite similar to Enki Bilal's Immortel. Hopefully this film avoids the awkward mash of styles that killed Bilal's ...

And now the footage:

LuxAnimation Showreel (Embedded Quicktime)
Attitude Animation Showreel (downloadable Quicktime)
Renaissance Trailer (High Res Downloadable MP4)
Official Renaissance Trailer