From slashfilm, Now this is truly bittersweet news to report. While in London for The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson updated the BBC on the status of Steven Spielberg’s Tintin and confirmed that filming is complete. The kicker? It’ll take about two years for the computer animation to be completed (remember this is a 3D motion-captured CG film).
I suppose we shouldn’t have expected any better when they announced that the film would be released on December 23, 2011—but I was still hoping that through some miracle we’d see the film earlier.
Jackson’s full comments on Tintin:
Tintin is great. It’s made. The movie is cut together and now [we] are turning it into a fully-rendered film… So the movie, to some degree, exists in a very rough state.
While improvements in computer processing may eventually allow them to complete the film sooner, I don’t suspect that Paramount will budge from their current release schedule. I’m just hoping we get annual releases for the other films in the trilogy to make up for this torturous wait.
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3 comments:
Hooray! I love Tintin.
You're not worried about the translation to the screen? I thought you would be.
Not sure how I feel myself. I guess it makes more sense than a live-action movie. I don't find re-watching Beowulf to be all that great, so I remain iffy on mo-cap movies in general.
Yeah, but this is different, because it was actually shot on film (or whatever), from certain vantage points, with cameras, right, unlike Beowulf, which is a different technique wherein the actors' movements (and even their eye movements) were picked up by scanners and then the camera positions were decided later, once the actors have gone home. In other words, expect something less like Beowulf and more like Davy Jones (since that was done the same way). Then there's Gollum, which is yet a third technique, wherein the body moves were mocapped but the face was hand-animated, Pixar-style. There are many different ways to do this stuff, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, and it all gets grouped together into "mocap" which blurs the significant differences in the results. Beowulf, for example, has the advantage of an incredible fluidity to everything you see (since there weren't any cameras at all, so the characters and the cameras can literally be placed anywhere, after the fact) but the disadvantage of the facial moves being a bit stilted, since the gizmos that pick up the electrical signals in facial nerves (really) aren't quite as good as a human eye or a computer tracing moving dots on flat footage.
I still love Beowulf anyway, just because it's so ballsy and so batshit insane and so beautiful in a crazy album-cover kind of way; it's its own crazy thing, and I dig it.
Tintin, I mean, yeah, it cold suck, but it's Spielberg and Jackson, man.
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