Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg has admitted that he used motion capture for his latest movie Tintin out of respect for the original material.
Spielberg teams up with fellow Oscar winning director Peter Jackson for the big screen adaptation of the popular comic book character.
Spielberg is behind the camera for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn and Jackson is on producing duties. Filming on the movie has been completed and is now being worked on by Weta.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times the filmmaker said: "Hergé wrote about fictional people in a real world, not in a fantasy universe.
"It was the real universe he was working with, and he used National Geographic to research his adventure stories.
"It just seemed that live action would be too stylized for an audience to relate to. You'd have to have costumes that are a little outrageous when you see actors wearing them.
"The costumes seem to fit better when the medium chosen is a digital one."
The movie sees Jamie Bell take on the title character and he is joined on the cast list by Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig and Simon Pegg.
The movie is expected to hit cinema screens in 2011.
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