The real Tintin!
Completely forgot about this animated series. The Adventures of Tintin....That takes you back. Obviously it pre-dates me by quite a bit but we always used to watch this when it was replayed on the telly and now it's being made into a 3D animated film! And with Spielberg as the the Director and Peter Jackson as the Producer no less....ka'ching! I'm not sure motion capture will really keep the integrity of Hergé's work though.....Can't wait to find out though:
Spielberg revealed that he chose to use motion-capture out of his respect for Hergé, the author and illustrator of the Tintin graphic novels.
It was based on my respect for the art of Hergé and wanting to get as close to that art as I could. Hergé wrote about fictional people in a real world, not in a fantasy universe. It was the real universe he was working with, and he used National Geographic to research his adventure stories. It just seemed that live action would be too stylized for an audience to relate to. You'd have to have costumes that are a little outrageous when you see actors wearing them. The costumes seem to fit better when the medium chosen is a digital one.
Despite the heavy use of technology, Spielberg claims that audiences will still feel the humanity of the characters.
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