"With more than 700 comic writers, Belgium is home to the highest density of comic creators and illustrators in the world," according to the official tourist website of the nation's comics capital, Brussels. But the Belgian mania for graphically illustrated stories is not limited to the legendary The Adventures of Tintin, that timeless comic book classic that was first published 90 years ago. us.: land of beer, pralines - and comics. Directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson, Kathleen Kennedy and John Williams, the film stars Jamie Bell (Tintin), Andy Serkis (Captain Haddock) and Daniel Craig (Red Rackham). Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures’ The Adventures of Tintin opened Decemin stereo 3D. “Steven had to remind the animators that some scenes should be Tintin’s.”
“Snowy would steal every scene he was in,” Letteri says. He’s always in trouble.”ĭoes that mean he steals scenes as he did in the test? It sure does. In the comics, if the story isn’t engaging, Snowy will find his own adventure. “These dogs were bred for hunting and independent thought, so Tintin has the same pains as anyone with this type of a dog. “Hergé researched the breed,” Beard says. But he acts like a real terrier just as he does in the comic books. The dog in the animated film isn’t exactly realistic in appearance he’s a caricature. When you have a dog, other dog owners welcome you with open arms, even if your dog is a digital dog.” “And we went to dog clubs to see dogs running around and interacting. “We had dogs under our desks,” Beard says. But more often, the animators relied on their own research. Some of the captured data provided reference for how a dog moves. “But what we got was motion data of a dog trying to eat the balls off his legs.” “We tried putting a Lycra suit with tracking markers, little balls, on a dog,” says Jamie Beard, animation supervisor at Weta Digital. And that’s how they and Weta Digital created the film. Spielberg and Jackson tried the system Cameron had used to create the Na’vi in Avatar and realized they could use the same process for Tintin that is, put actors playing the comic book characters into motion-capture suits and use the data obtained from their performances to help animate a digital Tintin, Haddock and other characters. Technology developed on director James Cameron’s Avatar helped make that possible. As the two directors talked about Tintin, though, they realized they wanted to make the world of Hergé, not a liveaction film.
The test shot convinced Spielberg that he could make the film-and that he wanted to work with Jackson. “We had Peter telling Steven how he’d make a good Haddock,” Letteri says, “and we had Snowy steal the scene from Peter.” Then, for the test shot, Letteri had the idea of putting Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson in Captain Haddock’s costume. Weta’s artists accepted the challenge and created a digital Snowy. “At the time, the idea was to make a live-action film and they wanted to be sure we could create a realistic digital white dog.”
“We were just finishing the third Lord of the Rings film when Kathleen Kennedy, who produced Tintin along with Steven Spielberg, asked if we were interested in creating Snowy for the film,” Letteri says. Joe Letteri, senior visual effects supervisor and director of Weta Digital (Wellington, NZ), which has won five Oscars for creating digital characters and effects in the Lord of the Rings series, King Kong and Avatar, tells the story. So it’s fitting that Snowy helped make possible the animated feature film The Adventures of Tintin. Snowy provides comic relief, rescues Tintin from danger, butts into everyone’s business and noses out important clues, often accidentally. But it’s Tintin’s constant companion, the spunky Wire Fox Terrier Snowy, who sparks the stories.
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The star of the enormously popular comic book series “The Adventures of Tintin,” by Hergé (Belgian artist Georges Rémi), is a young reporter named Tintin.
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