Tintin Film in the can...

[Lazlow]

but it will take two years to complete the CG animation (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8375280.stm)

Steven Spielberg's Tintin film is in the can, but it will take two years for the computer animation to be completed, producer Peter Jackson has said.

The Lord Of The Rings director told the BBC: "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."


Too early to get the hype train started? >_>

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Unicorn wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin:_Secret_of_the_Unicorn)

[Spudzilla]

I'm pumped

[dinopoke]

I don't understand. Is the film live action, 3D animated or 2D animated? The wiki says it's motion captured so I'm guessing 3D animation?

Regardless, I'm excited and I hope they don't rape the source material (too much).

[Australian Ninja]

Too early to get the hype train started? >_>


IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY, NEVER I SAY!

But yeah I'm really looking forward to the Tintin film, and it could not be in better hands imo.

I can't be bothered reading again, but from memory it's some sort mo-cap real time 3D that shows up on the monitors as CGI while the actors/ stunt goons do their stuff, similar to the thing Jim Cameron has done with Avatar - the real time 3D (polygons) on monitors, not the "out from for the screen" 3D.

[texta]

I'm pretty excited. Excellent casting but I'm a little worried about this whole 3D thing.

and it could not be in better hands imo.Well I disagree with that. If anyone can ruin a great series by turning it into some special effects bonanza it's Spielberg and Jackson. I'm hoping their cast can hold it together.

[AranchineD]

If it's not at least 51% racist, I won't be watching

[Lazlow]

I'm hoping their cast can hold it together.

I'm interested to see how Frost and Pegg pull off Thomson & Thompson

[pauljdavidson]

Stunt casting of Pegg and Frost? Either way it should be good. Loved the Tintin books. And I love Spaced.

[fleshtea]

Can't wait. I am a huge Tintin nerd, I wanted to be him my entire childhood.

[VanAce]

I can't be bothered reading again, but from memory it's some sort mo-cap real time 3D that shows up on the monitors as CGI while the actors/ stunt goons do their stuff, similar to the thing Jim Cameron has done with Avatar - the real time 3D (polygons) on monitors, not the "out from for the screen" 3D.

Its motion capture so I assume that the acting part of it has been done and now they just need to clean the data and apply that to the 3d models.

[Australian Ninja]

I'm pretty excited. Excellent casting but I'm a little worried about this whole 3D thing.

Well I disagree with that. If anyone can ruin a great series by turning it into some special effects bonanza it's Spielberg and Jackson. I'm hoping their cast can hold it together.

I was meaning that the people involved like the books, it doesn't hurt that they have both made some incredible films over the years.

Can't see how a CGI Tinin movie would be ruined with special effects?

Maybe if they put some old TV Batman style "POW" and "WHAM" when Tintin punches someone, that would ruin it for me!

[Fenrir]

The Lord Of The Rings director told the BBC: "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."
Haha, I'm imagining they've got some grid out back rendering this thing at 2 minutes/frame - and someone's really going to get their arse handed to them if they forgot to load a texture file.

[ThePhotoshop]

I thought you meant it was cancellled - don't we usually say 'in the bag' when something's done?

[JimmyKane]

'in the shitter'

[Lazlow]

I thought you meant it was cancellled - don't we usually say 'in the bag' when something's done?


Its film-speak referring to something that is recorded on film or completed.

[watkinzez]

Haha, I'm imagining they've got some grid out back rendering this thing at 2 minutes/frame - and someone's really going to get their arse handed to them if they forgot to load a texture file.

2 minutes?

This film is a dream team of awesomeness. Steven Spielberg + Peter Jackson + Steven Moffat + Edgar Wright + John Williams = holy shit. Plus it's Tintin.

[Xanafalgue]

Why can't they just make a 2D animated Tin Tin film, stop ruining my childhood mother****ers.

[Sir_Psycho]

I thought you meant it was cancellled - don't we usually say 'in the bag' when something's done?
You're confusing "canned" with "in the can". How could you?

[texta]

You're confusing "canned" with "in the can". How could you?By not being a pretentious wanker?



On a totally unrelated note: You're not a real Tintin fan unless you can get 100% on my tintin quiz:

http://www.mybuzzquiz.com/en_AU/actions/PlayQuiz.do?fileID=195749

[Sir_Psycho]

Big daddy texta, valiantly defending smaller egos against internet attacks that do not exist.

[Fenrir]

2 minutes?
Vague guesswork because I was drunk and didn't really care. I think at 60 frames/second, rendering 1 frame every 2 minutes, it'd take 2 hours to render a second of footage, 120 hours (6 days) to render a minute, and ~2 years to render an entire 2 hours.

I've known 3D graphics students to get big iron (don't ask me what sort of big iron, I really don't know) running overnight to render ~30 seconds of footage for assessment pieces, but Hollywood studios definitely have bigger and better hardware grids, superior software, exhaustive content optimization et al. They definitely don't take anywhere near ~2 years to render feature-length CG movies (or at least I hope they don't >_>), but it's still pretty insanely heavy stuff.

[igotnewsuper8systemWRONG!]

But films only run at 24 fps

[fleshtea]

You're not a real Tintin fan unless you can get 100% on my tintin quiz:

I got 100% but spent about half my time on the last question, trying to remember if General Alcazar was in Red Sea Sharks.

I also remembered afterward that there is absolutely no reward in life for completing online quizzes.

[/backslash]

I'm always worried about traditional going into 3D, gimmie some Howl's Moving Castle animation any day with only a slight mix of 3D for things you'd barely notice but looks impressive. Tintin is awesome, hopefully they don't fudge it up but Peter Jackson's a good director unlike George Lucas who'd probably mix in some aliens

[texta]

I'm always worried about traditional going into 3D, gimmie some Howl's Moving Castle animation any day with only a slight mix of 3D for things you'd barely notice but looks impressive. Tintin is awesome, hopefully they don't fudge it up but Peter Jackson's a good director unlike George Lucas who'd probably mix in some aliens

Ignoring the fact that Jackson is not that great a director at all but the producer for this; putting in aliens would be entirely okay since they appear in one of the comics.

Jackson would probably give some of Tintin's lines from the book to Captain Haddock just because character continuity is that important to him.

[/backslash]

I thought PJ was the director for King Kong & LOTR *googles it* My mistake, blistering barnacles!

[igotnewsuper8systemWRONG!]

Too many cooks

[watkinzez]

On a totally unrelated note: You're not a real Tintin fan unless you can get 100% on my tintin quiz:

http://www.mybuzzquiz.com/en_AU/actions/PlayQuiz.do?fileID=195749

I wasn't expecting that to actually be hard. :(
Didn't know which Thompson had which moustache and the origin of Milou.

[texta]

Can I just say how hilariously lame it is that all the actors are British. It only makes sense in the most ignorant of stupid ways.

Film is now 1 year away.

[VanAce]

Which stories is the film meant to be based off again?

[Vindik8or]

Probably the one with the unicorns in it.

[Vindik8or]

Can I just say how hilariously lame it is that all the actors are British. It only makes sense in the most ignorant of stupid ways.

What do you call an otaku when it's not japanimu but early 20th century french comics that they get all neckbeardy over?

[AranchineD]

Snooty

[Vindik8or]

I'm waiting for someone to arc up over my carefully laid trap.

[buckstwits]

Yes, that is a good trap. (assuming it is what I think it is).

[texta]

What do you call an otaku when it's not japanimu but early 20th century french comics that they get all neckbeardy over?Ha. I'm a bit of a Tintin fan, but this isn't really about that. Tintin is essentially a French comic set in France. So if an American production team was going to make a movie of it, they should either give them all French accents/speak in French or they should just not care about accents and make them all American. The decision to have an all-British cast seems somewhat weird. Unless you're appealing to an audience that doesn't know where Tintin is from but knows that he isn't American. :-|

I'm waiting for someone to arc up over my carefully laid trap.I hope this isn't me just now, but instead you're talking about your other post.

[HiredMan]

Tintin is essentially a French comic set in France. So if an American production team was going to make a movie of it, they should either give them all French accents/speak in French or they should just not care about accents and make them all American. The decision to have an all-British cast seems somewhat weird. Unless you're appealing to an audience that doesn't know where Tintin is from but knows that he isn't American. :-|



Tintin was actually written and illustrated by a Belgian, first appeared in a Belgian newspaper and Tintin is Belgian.

Setting could be France though.

[texta]

Tintin was actually written and illustrated by a Belgian, first appeared in a Belgian newspaper and Tintin is Belgian.

Setting could be France though.I was talking about the language it's written in.
Edit: Though I'm probably wrong about the setting. I don't think it's ever explained.

Have you tried my quiz?


http://www.mybuzzquiz.com/en_AU/actions/PlayQuiz.do?fileID=195749

[HiredMan]

I don't think it's ever explained.



Yeah I think you're right there. I still have most of the Tintin books and read them again about a year ago... The setting is never really clear, although they usually mention the countries Tintin travels to.

I'll give the quiz a burl.

[Lazlow]

Do you have Tin Tin in the Congo?

[HiredMan]

No I don't think so. I have about 10 of them. Ones I can remember off the top of my head:
*Red Rackham's Treasure
*Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (the movie book)
*Cigars of the Pharaoh
*Destination Moon
*Explorers on the Moon
*Tintin and the Picaros
*Flight 714
*Tintin in America
*The Castafiore Emerald
*The Calculus Affair
*The Crab with the Golden Claws
*King Ottakar's Sceptre

I might've lost some of those :(

[texta]

I don't have any anymore since I moved out of home. But my cousin was/is a massive massive Tintin fan (eg he studied journalism) and he still has all of them including Congo and The Land of the Soviets. Neither of which are especially good I should add. Early Tintin didn't have much character.

[Lazlow]

Plenty of racism though :D

[Vindik8or]

Ha. I'm a bit of a Tintin fan, but this isn't really about that. Tintin is essentially a French comic set in France. So if an American production team was going to make a movie of it, they should either give them all French accents/speak in French or they should just not care about accents and make them all American. The decision to have an all-British cast seems somewhat weird. Unless you're appealing to an audience that doesn't know where Tintin is from but knows that he isn't American. :-|

Although Tintin is more popular in Britain than it is in America. Maybe the yanks are still all sore over France not support the wrr on terrrr? Or at least perceived as being that way by some marketer or producer?

[Gunblade89]

I have many childhood memories of reading the TinTin comics/books :)

[sausage]

good old racist herge with his massive red lips and ultra-black skin on negroes - what a champion and the perfect coffee table book for those politically correct guests.

[Vindik8or]

I don't get why that caricaturisation is pulled out and pointed to as racist but the charicature of even Tintin is fine?

[sausage]

Baiting negro racism is so much more fun

[Stevorooni]

So is Snowy going to be a real dog or will they screw it up and make him a CGI cartoon?

[Vindik8or]

Andy Serkis will do the motion capture for Snowy.

[Australian Ninja]

I don't have any anymore since I moved out of home. But my cousin was/is a massive massive Tintin fan (eg he studied journalism) and he still has all of them including Congo and The Land of the Soviets. Neither of which are especially good I should add. Early Tintin didn't have much character.

I like all of the Tintin books (which are also available in anthologies these days too, where you get 3 in 1 book) and Land of the Soviets is one of most interesting to read - to see the early artwork, and the social attitudes of the time, the dig "Herge" takes at the Soviet Union and it's the book where you can see the newspaper strip roots more than any other.

It's fascinating to see an artists earlier work and helps you appreciate how Herges' 'Tintin style' evolved in the later redrawn colour albums.


Can't wait for the film.

[Vindik8or]

Tintin is best read in its original Belgian.

[Vindik8or]

Would you like to see my fansub of the Adventures of Tintin animation series?

[Lex]

I hate weeaboos!

[watkinzez]

So, hey.

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7123/tin2.jpg

http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/857/tin1.jpg

[Vindik8or]

That's a bit strange.

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

Oh it's CG.

[Lazlow]

That's what the first post said you dolt!

[VanAce]

The water looks amazing.

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

What character is that in the 3rd pic?

[Vindik8or]

The water looks amazing.

It's as though... it's as though it's actually water!

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

Oh so it's not CG?

[Lex]

Well is it CG or isnt it? I MUST KNOW

[Stevorooni]

I assumed it was live action.

But it looks sort of CG.

Wikipedia says "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn is a motion capture 3-D film"

[Vindik8or]

Yeah, but that could mean dorky glasses 3-D.

[sausage]

GT5 screenshots?

[Lazlow]

From what I can tell it's motion captured CGI, similar to Beowulf or The Polar Express.

[texta]

Yeah. Motion capture mean CG. Motion capture for a live action film doesn't make any sense.

[texta]

Tintin is best read in its original Belgian.Troll much?

[TAT]

It's realistic CG keeping the style of the original books (caricature)

[Australian Ninja]

From what I can tell it's motion captured CGI, similar to Beowulf or The Polar Express.

Except it uses Cameron's "Avatar" multiple camera-sytem, hence the faster production cycle (basic rendered mo-cap footage displaying in real time etc).

So your eyes will pretty much explode when you watch it in the cinema.

[VanAce]

This is coming out 6 weeks earlier in India than in the US (http://www.hindustantimes.com/Tintin-film-to-open-earlier-in-India-than-US/Article1-705604.aspx)

I guess Tintin is popular in India. Although the buzz of getting it before the US would sell more tickets.

[Australian Ninja]

Tintin is popular everywhere.

[Slippery]

It's mother****ing Tintin!

[Xanafalgue]

I didn't think Tintin was popular in the US at all.

They should totally change the NZ release to Tuntun hahaha

TUNTUN


rofl