Tacit Ronin
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I thought they did it two years ago with Avatar?
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Looks amazing, can't wait to see this movie. I'm loving me some Daniel Craig as a bad guy.
What? I thought Daniel Craig was doing a voiceover as Red Rackham, the pirate--is he still alive in this story?
They did, but I was talking mainly about these cartoon-ified humans.I thought they did it two years ago with Avatar?
Face it, Spielberg and Jackson were NOT impressed by Zemeckis's efforts except maybe Christmas Carol where Scrooge didn't look like a real life person but an unrealistic toon humanoid and Monster House was an impressive mocap human toon movie where it didn't bridge the uncanny valley. They aren't trying to replicate real life human beings here or actors, they are replicating comic characters.
Looks like uncanny valley has been conquered and do you think if Zemeckis is watching those clips, he is weeping?
SPielberg tries to keep his film budgets at 150 million max. Indy 4 was the exception and i have no idea how much Tin TIn cost.
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There a many reasons why the motion capture films under Zemeckis were not as good as or they don't looks as good as Tintin. You get what you pay for! Zemeckis' studio was in the states. The US dollar doesn't go as far as it does over seas, as it does in NZ. The cost of everything is less overseas, and the better the dollar the more employees you are able to hire, and you are able to hire the higher paid artists. You are able to stretch the dollar more in terms of research and development as well.
Sony and Rhythm & Hues have been hiring younger blood over the past few years because it's cheaper to pay them their lower salaries than paying higher salaries to more talented and experienced artists and technicians. The same goes with Sony's and R&H outsourced divisions with their cheaper and less experienced talent.
ILM over the past few years have been taken off big franchises because they are to damn expensive! The movie studios have been hiring vfx houses overseas because they charge a fraction of the cost of what ILM charges. There are some very good overseas studios, like Framestore, The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Double Negative, Animal Logic and of course Weta. Buf studios in France also deserves a nod as well.
All the top visual effects companies based in the US have outsourced a portion of their workflow to India and Singapore also Canada to survive in the global market; Digital Domain, ILM, Sony Imageworks and Rhythm & Hues. The London based Double Negative has outsourced a portion of their workflow to Singapore.
The Oscar nominated visual effects studio called The Orphanage that was based in California had to close down in 2009 because it couldn't compete in the global market.
The Harry Potter films and the last two Narnia films.I dunno if ILM is taken off a few big projects.