Moore Illuminates The Secret of Kells

Director Tomm Moore chats with us about his acclaimed feature debut.
Posted In | Magazines: AnimationWorld | Site Categories: 2D, Films

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A more classical Disney look for the characters was abandoned in favor of a very flat look in keeping with the backgrounds.

TM: I've already got some development money from the Irish Film Board and from media here for my new feature, Song of the Sea. It's an Irish story about the selkies -- people that can turn into seals. It's about a little girl that's the last selkie and she has to find her way back to the sea from the city, and on the way back she gathers up all the remains of the fairy folk that are still hanging around in modern Ireland. They're lost and invisible to us and she helps them back to their own world. I suppose the benchmark for this one is My Neighbor Totoro. We are working on the script and for me the big lesson is to get everything ready up front. And hopefully start the storyboards next year.

Bill Desowitz is senior editor of AWN & VFXWorld.







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I really want to see this movie, but I live in Ohio and as far as I know the only screenings I know of are happening in other states. Why doesn't anything cool ever happen in Ohio??

Cristina (not verified) | Tue, 01/26/2010 - 21:05 | Permalink

The Character Design team consisted of my self and Barry Reynolds, who rejoined the team after working with us
on the original pitch trailer as a designer and animator, Barry made the final designs and modelsheets .
Barry's contribution was very important on the film, he made all the additional designs of animals and characters as well as supervising the model on the layout posing.

He was ably assisted by
Martin Fagin who was our Clean Up supervisor and who designed the final line and worked closely with Digital Graphics in Liege to
plan the "stained glass" effect of thicker outer lines which was added digitally.

The Vikings were designed by Jean Baptiste Van Demme .

Finally Lily Bernard , one of our Bg supervisors made the colour models for all the characters.
It very much a collaborative effort to arrive at the final look, big thanks to the whole team!

tomm moore (not verified) | Fri, 01/08/2010 - 07:39 | Permalink
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^^ I want to se this

~*nella*~

nellagurl | Tue, 12/15/2009 - 20:27 | Permalink

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