jonesissparrow said:Oh I plan to, I remember watching the TV show on Nickelodeon and I was little and I very entertained and I forgotten about it over the years until now. I never knew that Tintin was a comic strip from france till a year ago. Now I want to read every Tintin comic imagined. It's going to look awesome on the big screen a CGI version of the comic book they say.
I HOPE THIS WRITER'S STRIKE END SO THEY CAN DO THIS FILM, I WANT TO SEE THIS BADLY!!!
?I need a week to really get a scene into my head. And you?ve got Steven Spielberg and Kathy Kennedy, who?s the most powerful woman in Hollywood, and Peter Jackson, who?s co-directing from New Zealand using iChat! It was the most stressful thing I?ve ever done. Having said that, Spielberg was amazing. Sometimes he?d run on at the end of a scene and do a little dance and punch the air.?
For more on the film, lots more from Spielberg and interviews and shoots with names so big we can't print them here for fear of completely blowing your mind, pick up the 20th birthday issue of Empire when it hits newsstands next Thursday.
The mocap extravaganza, the first of a planned two-parter (the second instalment will be directed by Peter Jackson), will hit our (British) shores in late October/early November, thanks to a belief by Sony Pictures and Paramount Pictures that Tintin has greater overseas appeal.
The US will get to see the bequiffed boy detective solve a mysterious crime on December 23, 2011.
NoCamels said:Motion capture, eh? I'm honestly not sure how I feel about that. I loved the '80s cartoon....guess I'll have to wait and see.
RedeemedChild said:Eh? What's wrong with Motion Capture? It was splendid, captivating, beautiful and magical in The Polar Express and I'm sure it will be just as magical in TinTin if done right and with Steven Spielburg and Peter Jackson's Weta Digital creating the movie then what could go wrong?
fixer79 said:Agreed, MoCap is a wonderful tool and can lead to amazing results...
What I'm a bit worried about is they're going for the photoreal look while still keeping Hergé's style... I really don't know how that will look...
The thing I'm most nervous about is the eyes... Rendering those photorealistically in Hergé's style would mean they'll be shiny black oval beads... While I can see that working in long or medium shots, I'm afraid it'll look kinda spooky in close-ups.
I don't know if you guys are aware of it, but they're currently finishing a CG motion picture based on an internationally lesser known Belgian comic called
'Suske en Wiske' (Spike and Suzy).
Apparently they've suddenly changed their English comic names from Spike and Suzy to Luke and Lucy. Go figure why.
Anyway, they look like this in the movie:
I reckon the Tintin characters will look somewhat like this, since the style of Spike and Suzy comics was pretty close (though somewhat inferior) to the Hergé style.
http://www.lukeandlucymovie.com/en/index.html
fixer79 said:LOL!
Well, I know from a good source that that was the very same reaction an American who was asked to work on the film had, when he saw the models for the first time.
I take it you'd never seen the original comic book characters either then.
Thing is that they tried to match the comic book style as close as they could. Watch this:
Notice the similarity with Hergé's style? It is there.
See, they might work great as comic book characters, but that doesn't mean all of them will translate well to 3D.
Take that woman's hair for example. Even in front view, the hair could be drawn like you see it here from an angle. But on a 3D model, that same hairdo will now poke out at you in front view, pretty much like you can see on the
3D render that horrified you.
In order to fix this ugly effect, you'd be forced to somehow always show the hairdo from an angle in 3D, whatever way the character is facing.
That would result in something even more ugly: a hairdo with a life of its own!
The reason I gave this little rant about the ugly woman's hairdo is because they will have the exact same problem with Tintin's hair. In the comic, it is always drawn exactly the same, whether Tintin is facing sideways, 3/4 or to the front. Pretty much like Mickey Mouse's ears...
Translated to 3D, the problem arises.
And that's just one of the problems you can encounter when translating a character from his 2D realm to 3D.
Although Spielberg's artists are certainly top notch, they'll be forced to bring out every fibre of wit and talent to 100% successfully bring out Hergé's world in 3D.
I for one, am keeping my fingers crossed.
RedeemedChild said:Perhaps some things were never intended to be transition to CGI. Certain things look better in traditional animation while others look good in CGI.
Vendetta08 said:Hope this film is good.
This is actually the first fully motion capture film that is NOT being made by Robert Zemeckis. The technology is quickly getting better and better.
Vendetta08 said:Zemeckis produced Monster House and it was made through his production company.