It’s not often that you see a movie world so gorgeous you’re desperate to live there without knowing the first thing about the story, but here it is in black and white. Stills of Renaissance give the flavor but seeing it motion is the really jaw dropping stuff — a richly colorless futuristic cartoon-noir style and then some. The closest comparison would be Sin City, but that’s hardly justice. The world designers on this flick have clearly earned their pay, so here’s hoping the writers hold up their end of the bargain. We find out in March.
Put Renaissance alongside A Scanner Darkly’s sultry rotoscoping and this year is starting to look like a year where animators once again blow up our expectations of the future with wickedly new ideas. Can’t wait.
For more Renaissance, watch the hyperbole-inducing trailers or check out tons of stills on the official site. The last time I was so taken with a world at first sight was back in City of Metronome. Could that release this year, too? Oh, baby.
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