Steven Spielberg's Adventures of TINTIN

Empire starts teasing with snippets...

http://www.empireonline.com/reveal/

For a refresher, Spielberg is making Tintin with WETA digital, with the same tech that James Cameron brought to the table with Avatar, and Peter Jackson is acting as producer. It will be based on the books Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure.

Whole movie is CGI. Here is Spielberg talking about the new tech

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“I just adored it. It made me more like a painter than ever before. I got a chance to do so many jobs that I don't often do as a director. You get to paint with this device that puts you into a virtual world, and allows you to make your shots and block all the actors with a small hand-held device only three times as large as an XBOX game controller. When Captain Haddock runs across the volume [the name for the motion capture stage], the cameras capture all the information of his physical and emotional moves. So as Andy Serkis runs across the stage, there's Captain Haddock on the monitor, in full anime, running along the streets of Belgium. Not only are the actors represented in real time, they enter into a three-dimensional world."

Cameron thinks that in 15 years they will be able to have real-time full quality renders of performances...

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Right now [with the original Avatar and forthcoming sequel] we work at a proxy resolution. We create a 1980s video game looking end product, we give it to the visual effects company and they start over mapping all new high resolution assets to those low res assets. They start all over and do it all again and come out with a photo real end product. What we want to do is eliminate that middle step and start to close the gap between what our real time looks like and what the finished photo real looks like. Eventually, 15 years from now, we should be working real time in at a photo real image. So it’s getting to the point where it’s indistinguishable from photography at the moment your doing it as opposed to waiting six months or a year.

Keyword in karmakramer's post: AVATAR

I dunno. I'm genuinely excited about Tintin. The cartoon was truly great.

  On 10/31/2010 at 10:59 PM, Enter a new display name said:

Keyword in karmakramer's post: AVATAR

i hope it is just not another avatar.

when i was kid, tintin was one of my favorite characters. i would delight myself both with the books and vhs tapes i had of him!

This actually sounds really cool.

  On 10/31/2010 at 11:03 PM, ruiagnelo said:

i hope it is just not another avatar.

 

when i was kid, tintin was one of my favorite characters. i would delight myself both with the books and vhs tapes i had of him!

The only comparison that this could possibly have with avatar is technical. Which is great news, cause Cameron is a technical master... its his writing he has problems with. I expect this will be Spielberg's return, but I don't want to get ahead of myself. I haven't seen him this enthusiastic in awhile though.

DAPPER

tintin was my hero as a kid, this will be exciting.

i loved that shit when i was little, i can't wait.

I'm looking forward to this, nobody has attempted an entire cast of CGI humans with an extremely high budget besides Zemeckis, the results should be interesting. I'm sure it can't be worse than Indy IV: nuke the fridge

the only thing i have to add to karma's original post is that this was originally intended to be part 1 of 2. The 2nd movie was to be written and directed by Peter Jackson using the exact same template (character designs, cgi work, technical setup_) Spielberg used. I think the reason it's not being promoted much now is because the studio is a little worried about announcing 2 movies in case the 1st one doesnt do too well

Anyone else expecting it to be like this?

http://video.adultswim.com/tim-and-eric-awesome-show-great-job/spagett-scene-72.html

good choice on which books to adapt (would have been hilarious if they had adapted the racist African or Native American ones). I bet they sink big dollars into overseas promotion, as Tintin is more a world phenomenon than a US one.

I am stoked for this. I still have all the Tintin comics, and I was a huge fan as a kid. I even saw Tintin in the theatre, on several occasions. If Senor Spielbergo fucks this up, he's dead.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are in it too. Muy interesante.

From the guy that brought you Indiana Jones and the crystal kingdom, in avatar-vision.

  On 11/1/2010 at 10:23 AM, Gocab said:

From the guy that brought you Indiana Jones and the crystal kingdom, in avatar-vision.

It was directed by our friend Steven, even though:

I got the title all wrong

  On 11/1/2010 at 1:02 PM, Gary C said:

is this real?

he looks like a 12 year old

  On 11/1/2010 at 1:02 PM, Gary C said:

Shit, that's scary.

Why are the eyes so close together on the dog?

i would love it if it was entirely in french, the original language.

but it's hollywood, the original is always quickly replaced.

yeah the age is a bit concerning. Isn't he supposed to be in his early 20s? Just looks like a kid and a dog.... i REALLY REALLY want this to be good.

Is this movie gonna be 3D and Animation ???? , fuck me, thanks James Cameron.