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This is a link post Tintin trailer
and Quicktime for those who want a better look:
trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/theadventuresoftintin/
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 17 May 2011, 8:52, Reply)
This is a normal post very impressive cg and body mocap
but they aren't really showing the faces in action, could still have the cold, dead eyes of Tom Hanks in the Polar Express :D
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:01, Reply)
This is a normal post I walked out on
Beowulf for pretty much that reason. There's a point between cartoon and photo-realism that does not work.
 (I helped save b3ta! Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:02, Reply)
This is a normal post I know its a cartoon
but that plane crash really sucks. Are you going for realism, or are you going for cartoon? Good choice of story though - Secret of the Unicorn was one of the very best.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Does it have to be one or the other?
I doubt if it was done realistically whoever was in that plane would survive the crash. Plus that boat sailing across the desert may be awkward ;)
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:16, Reply)
This is a normal post I think it does have to one or the other
Personally, I'd rather have beautiful animation (like early Disney or the recent Japanese stuff) than 'realistic' animation. Why spend £200mill on animation that looks 'real'?

Mind you, most Hollywood films are about 50% animation now so the boundaries are getting a bit blurry.

I'd mush rather have seen this as a hyper-styled live action film.
 (I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:20, Reply)
This is a normal post so you can do live action with cartoon
but not cartoon with traced live action? like Snow White was with the introduction of rotoscoping?
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Its the look
Snow White didn't look in any way "realistic". You can accept what's going on in that film because the characters and situations don't jar with the world they inhabit.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:30, Reply)
This is a normal post compared to what had come before
Snow White was a staggering piece of work that did look very real and many people complained about the juxtaposition of her movements with those of the dwarfs and the animals.
History repeating, very interesting.
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:33, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't know,
I think its because they're aiming for something that's so close to looking real that it just didn't work for me. Anyway, regardless of that I loved the books as a kid and I'll certainly end up seeing it. Its got enough people working on it who's work I admire to make me think it'll be good.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 17 May 2011, 10:11, Reply)
This is a normal post I think they've gone a bit too far into uncanny valley
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
 (I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Tue 17 May 2011, 12:23, Reply)
This is a normal post I didn't say that
It's just that with the tech that filmamkers have there's an obsession with making everything look 'real'.

I suppose maybe I'm just old fashioned and can't help feeling it's the sense of wonder has gone from most animation now, Pixar being the exception that proves the rule.
 (I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Terry Gilliam once said of photo real animation:
"When you're now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you're controlling every moment of that, it's just death to me. It's death to cinema, I can't watch those Star Wars films, they`re dead things"
Perhaps Mocap is more organic, but I still find it takes my eyes a while to adjust to any film I've seen done that way - it still looks rather odd to see something lifeless prance round as a bewitched doll.
 (I helped save b3ta! Mster Johnny Ekstrom, now that's a name, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:40, Reply)
This is a normal post it's just a new form of puppetry
and that in itself is real people putting their input in (be it mocap or hand animated).
Quite odd coming from a man of his background :D
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:47, Reply)
This is a normal post The poster is superb!
www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/51373.jpg

That excites me more than the trailer
 (I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:55, Reply)
This is a normal post I think it does
If you're going to spend all that time and effort making the characters look alive and move and behave in a realistic way, you've got to apply that to the environment around them and the things they interact with. Otherwise it undermines the whole illusion. Plane crashes - especially light planes - are very survivable unless you've got absolutely no control over the thing. If you're writing the script you can decide whether its a survivable crash or not.

As for the ship in the desert - looks like a dream sequence to me.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:27, Reply)
This is a normal post as above
juxtaposition of does work, snow white to the dwarfs/animals of the forest. The cel drawing of the characters to the lush paint work of the environments.
It's just not what you're used to right now. It's trying something new. It might fail, but at least they're giving it a go.
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Well...
I've got £2 on no child outside of Belgium and France giving a shit.
 (I helped save b3ta! Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:24, Reply)
This is a normal post I keep reading this viewpoint and I find it very odd
It's spielberg, jackson, doctor who's Steven Moffat scriptwriting with Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish helping, a seriously all star voice cast... Just because it isn't based on something they have read doesn't stop it being appealing does it? how else do things like Space Monkeys and shit like that rake in so much money?

P.S. I'm not a tintin fan in any way, I'm just curious as to how this turns out seeing as it's very stumbly technology so far
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:27, Reply)
This is a normal post how else do things like Space Monkeys and shit like that rake in so much money?
Fart gags

And marketing.

I'm sure this will be marketed to the hilt and find an audience.
Just not as abig an audience and they hope for
 (I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:36, Reply)
This is a normal post they got the accent wrong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDA7Qm8HBhQ - NSFW :)

edit: i know this is strange, probably a product of the conversion between media, based on one shot etc, but is it just me that thinks tintin doesn't really look like tintin?
 (I helped save b3ta! Hol[]y - WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:45, Reply)
This is a normal post It's Herge's adventurers of Jimmy Sommerville

(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 17 May 2011, 10:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Ha ha ha ha!
People have told me that my new haircut
 (I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:47, Reply)
This is a normal post For the love of god, why?
And can't they come up with a strapline more original than "A Motion Picture Event Unlike Any Other"?
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 17 May 2011, 10:22, Reply)
This is a normal post Due to the frefox bug, this video is actually the one above it,
Certainly an unexpected storyline for Tinitn.........
 (I helped save b3ta! Si o doom Fund me! No catering cost involved! bit.ly/1bFtzN2, Tue 17 May 2011, 10:29, Reply)
This is a normal post you getting that too?
The other day every preview image on here was the same
 (I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 17 May 2011, 11:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, seens quite random too.
Some days I don't see it at all, others everything is all over the shop!
 (I helped save b3ta! Si o doom Fund me! No catering cost involved! bit.ly/1bFtzN2, Tue 17 May 2011, 12:08, Reply)
This is a normal post That's not limited to Firefox
I get this on chrome too.

That's charming anyway, Tintin Strauss Kahn and the treasure of Rakham the Maid.
"Lady, I guess you've found my unicorn..."
 (Wespel fried french., Tue 17 May 2011, 12:51, Reply)
This is a normal post Update your profile
"Hide embedded videos". Problem solved.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 17 May 2011, 13:35, Reply)