billions of blustering barnacles!

[kip_w]

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I just saw something that to me, and I would think to most Tintin fans, dropped my jaw and filled me with wholehearted admiration. This unofficial (fan) title sequence for "The Adventures of Tintin" stylishly quotes plot devices of all 24 Tintin adventures, including the last, unfinished story.

Simply brilliant. One hopes that the movie might live up to the sense of wonder that this ignited in me for its graphic elegance. Just watch it here. It's a minute twelve:

Watch on YouTube

The Adventures of Tintin from James Curran on Vimeo.

He gets it. He really gets it.

Thanks to my friend Amid at Cartoon Brew for putting this in front of my eyes.
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Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

That's terrific. But it's not the actual movie, is it, then?

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Alas, no. The actual movie will be all motion capture CGI, a medium that doesn't exactly raise my hopes. So far, everything I've seen that was done that way (I mean, when the whole film is done that way) has been an exercise in walking that uncanny valley and finding it full of robots that don't move quite right.