Fort Boyard: New Tigers under fire from critics

The famous Félindra tigers, the legendary guardians of the treasure room in Fort Boyard, will be replaced in the next version of the game, which begins on July 2, by avatars, cats in computer graphics whose graphics are already causing a lot of ridicule on social media. networks.

New Tigers are not unanimous. The first images of 3D cats summoned to replace the famous Fort Boyard tigers in the treasure room have been the target of many mockery.

Kashmir and Tosca, the last two tigers of the show still present last year, won’t actually appear on the show, but their tuning multipliers will continue to be France 2’s cult game puppets.

Guillaume Ramain, the show’s artistic producer, explained to HuffPost: “At first we thought of making archival photos of the tigers, but we thought it would be weird for the audience, because they knew the animals weren’t there anymore.” “We finally chose the tiger statues in the treasure room and decided to animate them to bring life to life as gargoyles in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame or creatures in Fantastic Beasts.”

“Even uglier on video,” a surfer exclaimed upon spotting the animated version of the new Fort Tigers.

It’s even uglier on video… Seriously, in 1995, the animation on Toy Story was 1,000 times better, Stop Your Dogs!#boyar castle #boyar castle #3D #3d Animation pic.twitter.com/BNdF1MKyQw

– French manga (@frenchmanga_ytb) June 24, 2022

Another “four months of work for this” quipped.

I don’t comment much on what’s going on on TV in general because I don’t watch it but… it seriously took 4 months of CA’s work?! Even the tiger statue looks pissed off knowing what we’ve done to his species, it’s beyond all levels of abuse out there!#boyar castle pic.twitter.com/EKN6kk5Qfn

– BakuChanneru 25 June 2022

“Maybe cats,” he was also suggested to produce the show.

4 months for that!? It might as well be the case for cats. You will do more Fort Boyard #boyar castle # tiger #FortBoyardtigre#Fort Boyard 2022 # tigers pic.twitter.com/1qFzEJuYsA

– Leunamme (Milemmanuel) June 24, 2022

Discovering newcomers, it is actually a deluge of jokes that have fallen on Twitter.

Deep fakes scare me more and more, example: here are two pictures, one of which represents a real tiger, the other, of a tiger in Fort Boyar computer graphics. I dare you to differentiate between them! Imagine such a tool in the hands of a dictator! pic.twitter.com/vlLB3e7zTa

– Nicholas Carrier (@nicolascarrie15) 27 June 2022

New Fort Boyard Tigers video!!!!

embarrassed !
#boyar castle# tigers# tiger #cgi pic.twitter.com/x0TLRveeWB

– Woyoyoyo (yoyoyoyo) 25 June 2022

Stop using animals in captivity is a great idea. But the new 3D tigers in “Fort Boyard” still remind me of the darkest hours of “Turok”https://t.co/zDtatKSfeZ pic.twitter.com/yOB2i4tWop

– Olivier Clairouin (@OClairouin) June 24, 2022

– Fort Boyard Tigers in 2021.

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Fort Boyard Tigers in 2022.#boyar castle # tiger pic.twitter.com/ZUClVYEOYk

– mish80 (@mish9volt) 27 June 2022

Gorgeous boyar tiger stretched by a graphic designer from France 2 pic.twitter.com/rR5fTOZp83

– Nicholas Carrier (@nicolascarrie15) 27 June 2022

tiger fort boyard pic.twitter.com/1nYT6laNhy

– Aurevilly (@Aurevilly1) 27 June 2022

However, viewers will have to get used to it. “Tigers will interact with the contestants during the show, and sometimes it’s funny or annoying. For example, they’ll lick their chops when the candidates get past,” HuffPost Guillaume Ramain explained.

The decision not to use an actual tiger in the show dates back to 2020. Producer Alexia Laroche-Joubert initially said that those who appeared on screen at that time would not be replaced after a certain age. “Cali, 15, retired, and we decided not to replace him. This is exactly what the state plans to do with dolphins, ”the Paris producer announced, who made this decision before the statements of the Minister of Environmental Transition Barbara Bombelli, regarding the gradual end of wild animals. In the traveling circus.

Note that Monique Angeon, translated for Félindra, will no longer have tigers to tame, but will continue to turn the tiger’s head to bring down the boyars at the end of the game.