An animated film -apkrig is created in Dreams by Media Molecule
According to Deadline magazine, Sony Pictures has acquired the rights to the upcoming animated film directed by Alex Helfrecht’s The Winter Journey. This is a film based on the song cycle of the composer Franz Schubert of the same name, and viewers can look forward to a poet in love on a dangerous journey through snowy and ice-covered mountains in Bavaria in the summer of 1812. But now you may be wondering interesting – with the world of video games, Deadline also gets this information quickly. As the headline has already revealed, Winter Journey is created in the game / editor Dreams by the developers from Media Molecule and will thus be one of the first, if not the very first commercial project to emerge from this environment.
“The Winter Journey is a romantic story that mixes live action with computer and painted animation. The world of this film is the first to be created using Dreams on PlayStation, backed by Media Molecule, “the press release said. “We’ve never seen a project like Winter Journey, which promises to combine first-class cinema and extraordinary painting techniques with one of the greatest song cycles in music history,” adds Sony Pictures, attracting cast and production.
If you were to ask Dreams to be more closely involved, it is not yet known whether the developers will only create static scenes in it, which they will use with their own animation, or they will animate directly in Dreams.
As for the actors, you can look forward to John Malkovich, Jason Isaacs, Martin Gedeck, known for example from The Lives of Others, or Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, who played in Fantastic Animals. The winter tour is produced by the London company Oiffy and co-produced by Polish, German and Belgian companies. Filming is set to begin in June in Wroclaw, Poland, with the premiere set for an as yet unspecified date in 2023. “Especially at this time, we feel the need to escape to another world full of beauty and timeless music,” said Oiffy representatives Jörg Tittel and Philip Munger . They also unanimously praise the collaboration with Sony Pictures and suggest that this connection will bring the film to another, sufficiently diverse audience around the world.
If you were to ask Dreams to be more closely involved, it is not yet known whether the developers will only create static scenes in it, which they will use with their own animation, or they will animate directly in Dreams. It also goes unnoticed that Dreams can currently only be controlled via a gamepad, which may not be a problem for some, but still not an industry standard for film animation.
