When the teaser trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Tintin trailer came out, I had reservations. The post, the styling, the action, they all looked terrific. But why couldn’t we see anyone talking? As the new full-length trailer mercifully reveals, turns out they had nothing to hide.
As you can see above, Tintin and company – unlike so many of their motion capture movie mates before them–may not be lost in the uncanny valley after all. We don’t see much talking, and much of what we do see is obscured by facial hair. But the chunks of dialogue we do get doesn’t seem like a jarring Hall of Presidents dead-eyed display. It’s actually, well, watchable.
Maybe it’s because the source material is cartoonish. Maybe it’s because they’ve cherrypicked the most humanoid ten seconds from a two hour film. But either way, I’ve got hopes. Hopes that not only has Tintin escaped the uncanny valley, but all of his successors as well. [BleedingCool via TDW]
Ollie
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 12:28 PMSpot on, that looks epic.
Maniacal
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 2:44 PMSweet, it’s looking good so far but I kinda wish they would do motion capture for an Asterix and Obelix film. It would be a perfect way to film those 2.
nick
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 3:13 PMBlistering blue barnacles
hazza
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 6:14 PMlooks amazing. doesn’t seem to suffer from the uncanny valley at all.
Franz
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 7:30 PMHmm. well from the trailer it seems like (most of the time) when someone’s going to talk, they turn their back to the camera and thus they save drawing the animation lol.
Also, Tintin looks a little too much like (I think his name is) Nelson from the front cover of MAD.