The nominations are out, and The Adventures of Tintin has been snubbed. Well, there is one award, for Best Music Score.

After a Golden Globe victory, the film received no animation or visual effects nominations.

According to New Zealand Media, animators behind the film think the Academy has made a mistake. “I think that was a really big oversight… Not to recognise those achievements,” says Joe Letteri, senior visual effects supervisor for Weta Digital.

Mr Letteri’s Weta team was responsible for the Tintin motion-capture animation, and he has a theory about why they missed out.

“The visual effects branch didn’t recognise it, because they thought it was animation, and the animation branch didn’t recognise it because it was using performance capture and visual effects techniques.” (via)

Before you feel too bad for Spielberg, his War Horse epic did receive a Best Picture nomination.

Still, no love for the Captain, our favorite reporter, and our favorite pooch.

Fans, weigh in. What do you think?

Now available, The Graphic Mythlogy of Tintin from writer Tim Mountford.

According to Mountford, he has “called it a primer because it’s both an overview of the compete canon of Tintin adventures as well as an introduction to the wider field of Tintinology. Most average readers of Tintin are, I’m sure, quite unaware just how much interpretive work has been undertaken (mostly by French boffins) on these seemingly simple children’s adventure stories. Now the books are being transformed into a Spielbergian franchise with all the attendant toys, happy meals, colouring books and so on, it might seem even more natural to dump them in a ‘kids’ category with every other comic book or CGI cartoon. But I think that would be a mistake and in my book I try to outline the case for approaching these works with a little more critical sensitivity.” (via)

Like the cover art? You can get that too, framed and ready to hang at Optic Module.

The perpetual heroic youth whose name means ‘nothing’ and whose face is a zero, recast in a series of overlapping circles. Flanked by his loyal companion of course. As featured on the cover of The Graphic Mythology of Tintin.

Every print is prepared to order, numbered and authenticated. All designs in the OM Gurus series are limited to 100 editions.

Thoughts on what Herge might say?

Awestruck. It’s really the only word to explain how we felt about this Crocheted Tintin Rocket! We spotted it at the Craftzine Blog and made our way down the rabbit hole to find out more.

Here’s what Craftzine had to say: Check out this amazing crochet rocket (based on the one from The Adventures of Tintin) from Lutter Idyl. Her blog is in Danish, but if you plug it in to Google Translate, you can follow her process for creating the specially-shaped rocket legs. It’s a stunning piece of crochet work!

It is, indeed, a stunning piece of crochet work. And an amazingly lucky baby!

The woman has got mad skills!

Amazing, don’t you think?

Oh but there’s more. Yes. She has also made a Crochet Tintin!

Okay, so he does look a little strange disembodied.

But look at this happy baby!

In case you were wondering, there’s quite a Tintin collection going in their house!

If she had sent us these photos herself, we’d have to nominate her for Tintin Fan of the Month!

Read the NYTimes article.

It’s really the apron that makes it. Don’t you think?

New Tintin merchandise is on the way and we expect to be re-stocking soon. In the meantime, Wundertime still has lots of authentic Tintin toys, books, and collectibles.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Wundertime.

The annual Cyber Monday Sale has started. Take 20-35% off the entire store, plus get free domestic shipping when you spend $100.00 or more. This sale lasts only one day. Save on Tintin, Barbapapa, The Little Prince, and lots more. The sale ends at 11:59 pm (EST) on November 28, 2011.

Have fun shopping!

Sydne + John