Hey folks!

Huge thanks to Octorox, WMX, and Greg Z for your combined efforts in giving The Brave Little Toaster the love it deserves.

I know many of you will be purists who want the absolute best rendering of the original film in its unaltered state. But, I also suspect that at least a few of you have little ones that you don’t want seeing a nearly-topless woman. So, in much the same way as WMX did with the intro, I painstakingly edited each frame to censor the upscaled version in a manner similar to the censoring that was done in the US DVD release.

I don’t have cloud hosting, but if Octorox or someone else would be willing to host this variant, I’d be happy to supply it to them so others can benefit from my work.

Before and After Images of Original Upscale, Censored Upscale, and Censored US DVD

Details:

I’m not a professional or even hobbyist artist. I think the final rendering looks natural next to the other animation, but if you don’t, well, I did my best! Upon playback, there was a bit of jitter between some frames that I didn’t like, but when I compared to the original, a similar jitter was there, so I think that’s just me hyper-focusing on something that probably wouldn’t stand out to a normal watcher.
I’ve re-encoded the film into HEVC/x265 (A 40-hour software encode at quality of RF18, preset of VerySlow for maximum quality at minimum filesize). There is a VERY slight loss of sharpness, but even in the comparison photos you really have to look to notice it. When things are in motion you’d be hard-pressed to notice a difference. The benefit? Nearly 80% reduction in filesize, from 20.0GB to 4.23GB. Nice for folks like me who are trying to maximize space on their media servers.
I was painstaking in ensuring that I didn’t drop frames or add frames as a result of my edits. Even so, the original upscale has a length of 1:30:11.989 and my censored version has a length of 1:30:11.614. After all of my checks I’ve come to the conclusion that my version just has fewer black frames at the end of the file, because both the original and my edit are at the same place in the credits at 1:30:08.659, just before it fades to black. Must be a consequence of the re-encode.