Sylvain Chomet, auteur of The Triplets of Belleville, moved to Edinburgh about four years ago, and opened a massive studio (rumor quotes many dozens of animators worked on it) to work on his next film. That film, The Illusionist, is also set in Edinburgh and the Western Isles; Belleville is one of my faves of the last 10 years. I can't wait to see The Illusionist!
The scoop is in Herald Scotland, which quotes a nice bit of PR:
One of the things Sylvain said when he moved to Edinburgh was there was this extraordinary changing light.
Is there an "extraordinary light" in Edinburgh? Yes, with qualifications. Much of the time it's an extraordinarily dim light. But when it's good... The orange-pink sunsets I associate with Seattle are, in Edinburgh, flattered even more by the gray-gray stone which catches them, and all the spires and hilltops on the skyline.