Tintin (character) to the big screen. The result was the 2011 motion capture feature film "", which merges plots from several "Tintin" books. Tintin (character) Tintin (; ) is the fictional character of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is a reporter and adventurer who travels around the world with his dog Snowy. The character was created in 1929 and introduced in , a weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper . He appears as a young man, around 14 to 19 years old with a round face and quiff hairstyle. Tintin has a sharp intellect,
The Adventures of Tintin (film) treasure hunt." Richard Corliss of "Time" wrote, "Motion capture, which transforms actors into cartoon characters in a vividly animated landscape, is the technique Spielberg has been waiting for—the Christmas gift … that he's dreamed of since his movie childhood." Jordan Mintzer of "The Hollywood Reporter" was also very positive about the film, describing it as "a good ol' fashioned adventure flick that hearkens back to the filmmaker's action-packed, tongue-in-cheek swashbucklers of the 1980s. Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" is a visually dazzling adaptation". Comparing it to another film, Mintzer said "Tintin" has "an altogether