The first teaser trailer is up. CG still looks utterly, utterly redundant http://www.movieweb.com/movie/the-adventures-of-tintin-secret-of-the-unicorn/trailer I guess it looks ok, but mostly the whole undertaking just annoys the hell out of me. Someone needs to slap Robert Zemeckis around until he agrees to stop making…
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?nid=29355 With the first few shots of the CG Tintin movie beginning to appear, I thought it'd be interesting to hear other people's thoughts on the project. The characters just look kind of odd. I still don't really see any reason why the film makers deemed it necessary to make…
and then you would probably end up with something like this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235536/ the thing about live action is that you can't make extraordinary situations without making it look fake, just look at Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as an example. But if you use exclusively CG everything blends much better, and…
I don't get an uncanny valley feeling at all really. The eyes could be a little too 'real' but that's about the only part which might be a bit freaky if they push the realism too much. The rest is so far from lifelike my mind accepts it without questioning it. Seeing it in motion is the only real way to tell however. The…
I'm super excited, and I'm not too bothered with the art style. It must be a bit of a side-effect of being 3d artists to be so critical and find uncanny valleys so quickly. I'm pretty good at switching certain parts of my brain off to enjoy... pretty much anything... (I can totally appreciate Final Fantasy: Spirits Within…
What's the point of taking something like Tintin, that is completely defined by its iconic style, and turning it into another realistic looking CG animation? I know the argument is that a mainstream audience wouldn't go and see a stylized, 2d animation adventure movie, but this is a pointless adaptation, at least from a…