I've been a huge Tintin fan from my childhood and have every single Tintin book ever written. When I heard Steven Spielberg along with Peter Jackson was making The Secret of the Unicorn as a CG film at Weta, I was a little disappointed. Mainly because I had always liked Tintin in the comics and never liked the 2D animated films that came out a few years back. They just didn't do justice and to hear that it was going to be made as a CG film, I didn't know what to make of it.
I couldn't imagine Tintin as a Three Dimensional character because in the comics his face primarily composed of a circle and two dots and I was curious to know how the guys at Weta would deal with it and how they would cross the uncanny valley.
The first picture of Tintin, that was published on the cover of Empire magazine didnt help too much because most of it was in shadow and it was not the still I was worried about, it was the animation and feel of the film.
The first teaser that came out showed really beautiful imagery but not much of "acting". I did notice some really good bits in the International Trailer that was released but I still wasn't sure about the whole deal. Until I saw these bunch of clips that were released earlier today and I must say it does look really good. I am not really bothered by the uncanny valley as much and I enjoyed looking at the clips. Totally.
I think this is where I would stop watching anymore clips from the film and wait till its released and see what it looks like put together. I must applaud the folks at Weta for such an amazing job.
I've embedded some of the clips below, you can find the rest of them, with some behind the scenes here
