10-24-2016, 08:45 PM
(10-22-2016, 04:52 PM)CosmykTheDolfyn Wrote: I don't know if anyone here has seen the documentary "Persistence of Vision", but it's a great documentary over the troubled, 30 year production of "The Thief And The Cobbler". I highly recommend it, gives a good display of how much work animation is. Also a unique look at the man Richard Williams and how much work he also put into training others.
I remember seeing the film(sadly the botched musical version) a few years ago, feeling very unimpressed by it. I later found out that the movie had a bit of a messed up production since Richard Williams was royally backstabbed by the studio when he failed to meet the deadline for the film. If you take a look in the background production of the film. Richard had a LOT of talented animators who worked on Thief and the cobbler. Such as Art Babbit(who animated on Disney's Bambi and Fantasia), Ken Harris(Who animated on Looney Tunes as well as Chuck jones's Grinch special), and Roy nasisbitt to name a few of the many animators who worked on this film.
Personally. If you want to watch this movie. Watch the recobbled cut. That's the closest thing you can get to what Richard Williams wanted this film to be. This is a prime example(to me) on why studios shouldn't screw things up for animators. And I thought Ralph Bakshi had it rough when he was working with Paramount back in the day.