I'm still not sure why this movie is CG. They said that they wanted to stay close to how the books looked, but the character designs and the tone are completely different. The character designs are so different from the ones in the books that they may as well have just shot in live action, and while the books had a very light color-on-white-paper look, the movie is very dark and the colors are muted.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: if they wanted to do this film in CG, they should have gone all the way and had Dreamworks Animation make it, with colorful visuals and highly stylized characters. If they wanted it to resemble live action, they should have done it in live action, and found actors who resembled the characters. The whole movie just looks like a waste of resources, even ignoring the fact that motion capture movies already have a bad reputation for disappointing.