Steven Spielberg Talks About The Motion Capture For The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn

Steven Spielberg Talks About The Motion Capture For The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn

The legendary director who is set to adapt the famus comic character Tintin in The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn, shares a little bit of his resoning for using motion capture for capture for the film...

By bleedthefreak - Mar 14, 2011 02:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Tintin
Source: LA TIMES HERO COMPLEX



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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bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 3/14/2011, 2:50 PM
:)
Spilox
Spilox - 3/14/2011, 3:28 PM
I wonder how this will look. If it looks anything like the polar express it will suck.
MovieMann
MovieMann - 3/14/2011, 3:35 PM
@Spilox
This is the technology pioneered by Avatar and it is being used by Steven Spielberg so you don't have to worry about it sucking.

Motion capture has come a long way since Polar Express.
TheNameIsBetty
TheNameIsBetty - 3/14/2011, 4:11 PM
Lol well I prefer live action, but i'm sure Stephen knows what he's doing.
Bryanferryfan
Bryanferryfan - 3/14/2011, 4:49 PM
Tin Tin.... never liked that Belgian Bastard.... HE SUX!
DrCKasady
DrCKasady - 3/14/2011, 7:11 PM
TINTIN! amazing! excited!
thisheart
thisheart - 3/14/2011, 9:06 PM
Where's Calculus? He should be in this movie.
mbomb22
mbomb22 - 3/14/2011, 10:28 PM
I read all the comics when i was a kid, and saw all the episodes on tv. i cant wait for this to come out
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 3/15/2011, 3:25 AM
thisheart@ Yes he should! John Hurt would have been great in that role.


If the movie looks anything like the previous pictures has showed us, its going to be great!:)
Love Tintin and love Jackson and Spielberg!

Just to bad that Tintin´s archenemy Rastapopoulos or evil ex-nazi doctor J.W. Muller isnt the main baddie in this!
Alfred Molina would have been perfect as Rasta and Danny Huston as J.W. Muller.



If i have heard right its Pirate Red Rackham who appears only in flashbacks fighting against Capt. Haddock´s grand, grand, grandfather Sir. Francis Haddock.
And the villains in the present day are Capt. Haddock´s crooked first mate Allan, just two petty criminals who wants the treasure of Red Rackham and the pocket thief named Silk.

Daniel Craig as Red Rackham


Daniel Mays as Allan




Toby Jones as The Pocket Thief Silk



mbomb22
mbomb22 - 3/15/2011, 8:09 AM
@ Alex- remember, 3 Tintin movies are being done. I'd love to see Red Rackham on the big screen too. I want to know what story Peter Jackson is doing
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