Legendary film director Steven Spielberg is the man behind the camera in the adaption of the popular comic character Tintin, who will be the focus of its first big screen outing in
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn. In an interview with
LA TIMES HERO COMPLEX, Spielberg talked about why the world in the graphic novel required motion capture filming for the big screen
“Hergé wrote about fictional people in a real world, not in a fantasy universe,” Spielberg said. “It was the real universe he was working with, and he used National Geographic to research his adventure stories. It just seemed that live action would be too stylized for an audience to relate to. You’d have to have costumes that are a little outrageous when you see actors wearing them. The costumes seem to fit better when the medium chosen is a digital one.”
Spielberg also gushed about how great it was to have a new filming experience with motion capture technology:
“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.”
Spielberg also mentioned the joy of seeing the actors duing their motion capture scenes, while being presented on a monitor as thier newly reformed self:
“When Captain Haddock runs across the volume, the cameras capture all the information of his physical and emotional moves,” the director said. “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.”
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn hits theaters Dcember 23, 2011.
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