Year of the Fish is a Studio Artist animated independent feature film written and directed by David Kaplan that is premiering at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival on  January 24th 2007.  A modern-day adaption of Cinderella based on an old Chinese version of the story, it was shot on location in New York City’s Chinatown using inexpensive live-action video that was then used as a guide for automated digital painting using Studio Artist in post production.

 

David made extensive use of custom designed Studio Artist Paint Action Sequences to automatically process his live video shots to achieve the lush organic painterly feel of the film.  David also used Studio Artist’s Warp and Supersizer interpolation features to up-size some of his initial Studio Artist rendered paint animation footage to final frame size and aspect ratio for the finished film.

 

Year of the Fish is a stunning example of what can be created by someone with some vision and a good visual aesthetic using an inexpensive video camera and Studio Artist.