“Vinci was the precursor of the cartoon”: Leonardo makes his cinema at the Château du Clos Lucé

Hey, it looks like “The Lion King” on this sketchbook… Especially since the American animation filmmaker Jim Capobianco collaborated on this masterpiece.

“It’s Leonardo’s mechanical lion, not Disney’s!”

» cuts Capobianco, co-director, with Frenchman Pierre-Luc Granjon, of the film “Léo”, released in theaters on Wednesday.

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Le Clos Lucé, in Amboise, the final resting place of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), welcomed at the end of his life by François I, whose royal castle neighbors this beautiful building, is organizing the exhibition “Léo, the fabulous story by Leonardo da Vinci, behind the scenes of the film”.

This presents all the settings of the feature film, really as if we were there, sometimes even with the program of a day of shooting: only thirty seconds of images per day, on seven sets, it is so long and complex. to make 87 puppets and photograph them frame by frame before making a stop motion film, the animation in volume.

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