| The ligne claire illustrations of the original comic books | | | | Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings Fame has joined |
| were very central to the whole ethos of the Tintin | | | | the project and the work he does at his Weta |
| world created by Remi. The whole ligne claire look | | | | Workshop is at the core of how the eventual Tintin |
| was such a classic that it's inspiration went beyond | | | | movie trilogy will look and feel. The look of the film will |
| comics with both Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein | | | | be similar to the work done to create Gollum in the |
| both stating it's influence on the pop art scene. | | | | Lord of the Ring trilogy. The Weta effects people |
| Ligne claire (French for "clear line") was created by | | | | used motion capture techniques on actor Andy Serkis |
| Remi and found a home in the Tintin adventure comics. | | | | then using key frame animation and subsurface |
| The style is very recognisable and can be described | | | | scattering rendering techniques enabled the first |
| as drawing that uses clear lines which have the same | | | | completely convincing portrayal of an animated |
| thickness and importance, rather than being used to | | | | humanoid in a feature film. |
| emphasize certain objects or be used for shading. This | | | | Weta was able to do this using very fast super |
| style of drawing incorporates strong colours and a will | | | | computers and the brains of some of the best digital |
| often show a combination of cartoonish characters | | | | special effects people in the industry. They spent a |
| against a realistic background. The use of shadow is | | | | year putting together a 20 minute demo for the Tintin |
| rare and all elements of a panel are delineated with | | | | movie. This demo was reported to of wowed the |
| clear black lines. | | | | backers. Jackson said "We're making the character |
| Remi ligne Claire style evolved over time to the look | | | | look photo realistic; the fibers of their clothing, the pores |
| we recognise today. Remi started out in a looser and | | | | of their skin and each individual hair. It is possible that |
| rougher style that was evident in the American comic | | | | the work, certainly the first one will start next year". |
| strips of the 1920's and 1930's. It was after World War | | | | The look of the film can only be guessed at but the |
| II that Remi ligne calire style developed that not only | | | | information given would suggest using real actors then |
| accounted for the drawings but also the Tintin plot | | | | digitising them as with Gollum in The Lord of the Rings |
| lines. The plots as a result were very straightforward | | | | trilogy and then using them on actual live world |
| and easy to understand. | | | | backgrounds. |
| Steven Spielberg has gone on record saying that the | | | | This would make for a very exciting Tintin trilogy with |
| reason that he has not made a Tintin movie up until | | | | Jackson and Spielberg being able to truly capture the |
| this point was due to the fact that he couldn't faithfully | | | | essence of Tintin and relate that onto a big screen. It |
| recreate the look of the comics. It is now only today | | | | truly is something to anticipate with relish. |
| that this is possible. | | | | |