ComingSoon.net has an exclusive interview with Renaissance director Christian Volckman. He talks about the unique animated look (“It’s all motion capture, and then the backgrounds are 3-D or matte paintings, but the whole of it is CGI”), his influences (Ghost in the Shell or Akira. A lot of Manga stuff, Miyazaki, of course”), and more. The film, which opened in limited release this past weekend, is a “gritty futuristic crime story, realized mostly in black-and-white, about a police officer…who must find a missing research from the mega-corporation Avalon, who have been dabbling in questionable secret experiments”.