At work, I translated this abstract for an article, but I think some sentences sound funny and probably some of it's english is not correct. Would you mind giving it a look and telling me what doesn't work?
Thank you all!
Oh, it has even kept the pink parts from the word file (the parts I'm most unsure of)!
Thank you all!
Added at: 13:40Considering how important the graphic style in Tintin comics is, does the change of aesthetics in the Spielberg adaptation affect in a negative way the audience’s experience?
We start with a description of Hergé’s art style, based on his usage of caricature and its two formal mechanisms (simplification and deformation). A very simplified art style with a medium-low degree of deformation in characters, but almost inexistent in backgrounds and objects, is very particular of Herge’s style. As Hergé himself admits, his style, which is highly influential in the franco-begian “ligne claire” stylistic canon, is completely focused on facilitating the process of reading visual narrative for children and pre-teens.
While it’s simplification would make Herge’s style to be highly iconic, the careful and rigorous approach by his collaborators in finding and reproducing real references for the objects and backgrounds in his comics makes Tintin a realistic comic book, or, at least, a book that (as we may see today with the work of authors like Joe Sacco) illustrates the real world of its time. It’s images are precieved and decodified by the young readers as real.
Even with the visual realism intended, which is achieved with magnificent textural work, hyper realistic backgrounds and the usage of motion capture to give movement to the characters, Spielberg’s film doesn’t achieve the same effect as the comics. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, keeps a high level of deformation in it’s characters, very similar to the level used by Hergé himself, but disregarding any of his attepts at simplification. Instead, the pursued effect is to show how the characters from a Tintin book would look in the real world, almost like in “untooned” art. The achieved effect, though, is a very realistic reproduction, but not realistic enough as a human being to avoid falling straight into the Uncanny Valley. Even if they look objectively more real, the hyper realistic renderings of these characters are perceived as grotesque deformations, an effect that affects negatively the audience’s experience.
Oh, it has even kept the pink parts from the word file (the parts I'm most unsure of)!