Steven Spielberg has wrapped up shooting the first Tintin movie in Hollywood and will now pass it to Peter Jackson to complete the visual effects.
Spielberg last week completed 32 days of shooting the actors, including Daniel Craig as pirate Red Rackham, using special performance capture technology, Variety reported.
Work on The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of Unicorn will now continue at Weta Digital in Wellington under the eye of Jackson, the film’s producer.
Spielberg and Jackson have been tight-lipped on exactly how performance capture technology a more advanced version of how Andy Serkis was used as the model for the computer-generated Gollum in The Lord of the Rings is being used for the first of three Tintin movies. But it is understood it will be used to make the actors look similar to the characters depicted in the series by Herge.
Requests to visit the Los Angeles set of the film featuring the plucky Belgian reporter have been repeatedly turned down. “You have to see it to understand [the technology]. It really can’t be described,” said Spielberg spokesman Marvin Levy.
Kathleen Kennedy, who is also producing the series, said it was hard to describe exactly the world Spielberg and Jackson were creating in the film. “It’s extremely difficult to explain to someone unless they are standing next to me and usually then their reaction is, ‘Oh my God’.”
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