Snowy (character) - Adaptions

Adaptions

At the end of the run of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets on 8 May 1930, a mock reception for Tintin and Snowy was conducted at Brussels North Station. There Snowy was played by Hergé's cafékeeper's Fox Terrier. In The Adventures of Tintin television series, Snowy is voiced by Susan Roman. However, Snowy's comments are not present.

Among the anthropomorphic cast of Bryan Talbot's graphic novel Grandville, there is a white Wire Fox Terrier named "Snowy Milou". In a drug-induced delirium, he describes the dreams he has had, with close parallels to the various adventures of the Tintin books.

From a computer-generated imagery point of view, Snowy was the most difficult character to film during production of The Adventures of Tintin feature film. Fur in generally difficult to render, with white being the most difficult color and curly fur being the most difficult shape. Another issue was that Snowy is drawn from particular angles, which makes it difficult to make him recognizable with moving camera shots. Early in the development process, the production team considered casting a dog as Snowy, but instead decided to use a puppet. Thus the actors used the puppet as a placeholder, acted out by a puppeteer. The Snowy character was then animated afterwards.