When "Tintin and the Lake of Sharks" (French: "Tintin et le lac aux requins") animation film was released in December 1972 by Belvision on a scenario by Greg (Michel Regnier), Belvision put a lot of effort in promoting the film the best they could. Apart from the well known film poster (also designed by Bob De Moor) several other promotional
Read MoreA while back we posted an article regarding the small Tintin promotional animation film Bob De Moor worked on for the Société Générale in 1969. Bob De Moor drew the decors in pencil while Claude Lambert would color them. Bob De Moor and Claude Lambert would also work on another movie, the "Tintin et le temple du soleil" (English: "Tintin
Read MoreBetween 1955 and 1958 Raymond Leblanc's Belvision studios worked on several animation adaptations of some of Willy Vandersteen's Spike and Suzy albums (that's English for'Suske en Wiske' for those wondering) for the Flemish television NIR. Included were "Het Spaanse spook" ("The Spanish Spook"), "De bronzen sleutel" ("The Bronze Key"), "De gezanten van Mars" ("The Martian Ambassadors") - of which an
Read More[caption id="attachment_664" align="alignleft" width="300"] SGM booklet page 49. Decor by Bob De Moor, and probably Snowy and Tintin (in jeans!) too.[/caption] In 1969 Belvision was asked to create a small Tintin promotional animation film for Société Générale, a French multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Paris, and more precisely for the Société Générale des Minerais (SGM). This company
Read More[caption id="attachment_469" align="alignleft" width="300"] Advert featuring peasant woman - Copyright © Hergé / Moulinsart[/caption] In the series of Fruit d'Or adverts which Bob De Moor completed for Publiart/Studios Hergé, today let's check out one particular advert featuring Professor Calculus hovering in the air with a hamper of poultry in his left hand and a Fruit d'Or margarine/a cooking butter boat in
Read MoreThis Tintin & Snowy drawing was completed by Bob de Moor in 1972 for the Studios Hergé. Of course it was made for the "Kuifje en het Haaienmeer" (that's the dutch title - so you also get to learn Bob's language bit by bit ) as produced by the Belvision studios. Note again that the different drawing is due to
Read MoreWe unearthed this test drawing by Bob de Moor for the Tintin story "Tintin and the Lake of Sharks". The drawing was completed around 1972. Note that the different way of drawing is due to the purpose of the drawing: to serve as a guideline for the animators at the Belvision studios. For those interested to know how Bob de
Read MorePublished in December 2013 this book is a must read for Bob de Moor fans. You'll find crayon drawings by Bob for the decors of the Tintin SGM video/comic plus a lot more info on de Moor and his work for the Belvision studios. Written by Daniel Couvreur in a rather tongue in cheek way - though it's unclear whether
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