Apparently nobody wants to see icky old Motion Capture ... except when they do.
... Tintin was No. 1 in the U.K., where it grossed $10.7 million.
This weekend alone, the movie grossed $2.1 million from 169 screens in Herge's home nation, $1.9 million from 297 screens in Sweden, $1.8 million from 174 screens in Switzerland, $1.6 million on 221 screens in Denmark and $1.3 million on 250 screens in Holland and $1.3 million in Italy.
In Spain, it grossed $6.7 million on 798 screens -- 50 percent of the country's entire market ...
All I have seen of the feature is the trailer with the frenetic cutting and spectacular action fragments. Big ships, things blowing up, close ups of characters slogging through the uncanny valley. Judging from the European opening, audiences are flocking to the well-loved comic book figure's big screen adventure. I think we can say that, thus far, it hasn't been the still-born entity that Mars Needs Moms turned out to be.
Who knows? Maybe it will be a sizable global hit.
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It's not getting very good reviews, but some European markets like it.
Doesn't mean it's "animation" though. It ain't. I
It's at 85% on Rotten Tomatoes. That's pretty darn well-reviewed.
But I will agree that motion capture is not animation.
Nope, and we have the AMPAS to thank for that. Sure, denigrate the work of fellow animators that work in the medium! Why not? It's not like you have ever talked with any of them.
Hilarious. Just letting people know Spielberg and Jackson are involved and suddenly "dead-eyes" become "spectacular".
If having "dead eyes" is what you use to judge whether something is real animation or not then that would include at least 75% of anything called animation.
So now we have Katzenberg and Spilberg in direct competition. Puss and Boots and Tintin released at the same time( close) ,Who planned that?
The AMPAs has determined that it cannot be considered for the Best Animated Feature category without proving that most of it is animated. They haven't done this yet. As an Academy Member, I consider it an achievement, but not animation. Not even close. And I will fight with the majority of those who already believe the same. Speilberg or NOT.
Yeah, the Academy (which I'm a part of as well) made the decision based on JL's prodding. He wanted to make sure he was paring down the competition as much as he could. He's still smarting from the years he lost - especially the first year to Shrek. If you don't think JL doesn't get his way then you don't know how the Academy works very well.
And being part of a minority I'm against any pseudo governing body that decides to tell a large group of others what they find exceptable and fits into their very narrow definition of what anything is - much less what a form of art is - based upon some obtuse sense of "taste".
As artists, much less as humans, we should be fighting against this very narrowing of the definition of what can and can't be called animation.
Regardless of whether the majority think it's pretty enough or not.
Mo-Cap is the art of computer programming not animation. This film may look fancy to the untrained eye but I just can't respect the idea. How odd that I can love over 6 hundred years of art but I just can't come to terms with... robotic puppets. I am huge fan of Tintin ever since I was in elementary school but this wasn't the way of animating the Tintin charcaters. Herge was known not only for his story telling but his fine artistic abilties, what a shame... what a waste.
"...JL's prodding. He wanted to make sure he was paring down the competition as much as he could. He's still smarting from the years he lost - especially the first year to Shrek. If you don't think JL doesn't get his way then you don't know how the Academy works very well."
Horse Sh**t. Of course, it's obvious from your "writing" that you don't know what you're talking about--no facts whatsoever.
"If having "dead eyes" is what you use to judge whether something is real animation or not then that would include at least 75% of anything called animation."
The eyes of a character are the first thing the audience will focus on. Thats where the smart money goes. So I don't really have a problem with the original comment, since I pay close attention to the eyes as well. Poor eye and eyebrow animation can be very distracting...
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