You guys, you guys! The first trailer for the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson Tintin animated cinema spectacular is here! But while it’s supposedly a gigantic step forward in motion capture technology, I can’t help but notice something’s missing. Something important.
As hyper-real as Tintin and Thomson and Thompson and that plane crash (my goodness!) look from a distance, we only get one brief close-up of a face. And, more forebodingly, we never get to see anyone actually, you know, talk. This makes me nervous! It’s always been the eyes and the mouth that make motion capture people seem like freakish plasticine facsimiles. And you, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn trailer, you are hiding those things from us.
I could be wrong. I hope I am. But please, Weta Digital. Please tell me you didn’t turn the boy hero of my youth into a zombified rubber glove. [Buzzfeed]
DaveF
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 7:58 AMUmm, right at the end, mouth intact.
Franz
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 10:34 AMThe face at the end scares me.
I’d measure this as similar in style to the mummy, but slightly more silly in places.
ErraticFocus
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 1:14 PMweta got golem right, they can do tintin easy.
Meta
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 7:14 AMGollum was significantly NOT human.
john
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 12:06 PMWhat is the point of hyper realistic motion capture? You film actors doing everything and then recreate it too look as close to the real thing…Why not just film the real thing in the first place? I guess then there is no gimmick.
cflow
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 4:02 PMI know what was really missing. Captain Haddock and his “Billions of blue blistering barnacles”.
If they don’t put in his esoteric method of swearing I wont be taking the kids.
It just wouldn’t be right.
Steve
Friday, May 20, 2011 at 12:13 AMDid you have problems with the mouths etc in Avatar? Same people…