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#13 · Posted: 16 Oct 2005 01:39
Thanks everyone for your replies. Honestly, I am really shocked to hear these things!
In Explorers On The Moon, Bob De Moor provided the space scenes, the details of the rocket interior and the lunar landscapes
Farr also implies that the 1966 redraw of The Black Island was largely the work of De Moor, in collaboration with Roger Leloup, who was responsible for updating the aircraft
Roger Leloup was responsible for much of the mechanical hardware on show - the tank/ car chase in Calculus Affair... the fighters in Red Sea Sharks; I think he may also have done the moon-tank Explorers... Edgar P. Jacobs was very much involved in the decor of scenes, and indeed did much of the work on the re-drawing of Ottakar
For me at least, this is really big news! How many times have I heard about Hergé's vision in depicting the moon's surface, years ahead of any real manned flight? And he didn't actually draw it?? How often have I thought that some of the coolest things about Tintin were the vehicles, occasionally quirky as they might be (the rocket, the moon tank the shark-sub - come on, don't tell me Herge didn't draw the shark-sub either!) but tangible nonetheless? And he didn't draw them??
At least tell me that had he wanted Hergé could have drawn all of these things himself and that rather than doing a job he couldn't, his assistants were more like apprentices who drew as he wished, or even as he directed them to!
Tintinologists, I'm sorry, but this is difficult to swallow. And it's not just that I don't like the news particularly, but that it really is hard to believe, for two reasons:
For a start, Hergé's work comes across as being so complete and stylistically uniform; I can't imagine different people passing around a picture and adding parts in turn. Sorry if I'm spinning what you said way out of proportion, but that's what it sounds like. OK, in the instance of somebody else drawing a background, how could Hergé have even begun to ink out the characters if he didn't have the vision of the whole scene in his mind? If he did have the vision of the whole scene in his mind, I still think that drawing the characters alone would have been quite difficult, especially considering all the various camera angles that were adopted later on in the series.
And that ties in with my second point. Throughout the series, there is a clear development in the skill of art employed that I had always attributed this to one artist. If the backgrounds improved, but the characters stayed the same for example, then I might more easily believe that other people were involved. But the progression just seems so smooth that it's difficult to believe that everyone on the team is improving together, at apparently the same rate!
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