And my workprint is also slightly better than the one that's out there. I hope this new workprint I'm getting in is even better ...
>>Did you ever find out what the rest of the source music was (like March of the One Eyes)? I've been looking for the title of the music for months and not even music researchers I've talked to know what it is!
Richard Williams is a jazz musician, so it's possible that he created some of the music himself, or had somebody do it.
>>Also, was the scene with "Oh Phido, how could I forget? I fear you haven't eaten yet." and Zig-Zag walking down the staircase ever fully animated?
I am 90% certain that it wasn't. Obviously the end of it, and Phido, made it to pencil test form. Maybe the whole thing made it to pencil test form.
With the rest of this scene, it's clear that Williams finished it in pencil form, and inked a couple of shots (including everything with Phido), and then Fred Calvert's team inked/colored it, rather poorly.
You can tell the difference between a Williams Zigzag shot and a Calvert Zigzag shot by looking at Zigzag's eyes. Williams' Zigzag has a thick dark green outline around the eyes, with lighter green in the middle and a black pupil, which makes it look like a real eye. Calvert skips the green outline, so he just has light green eyes with a black pupil.
Williams animated Zigzag himself .... and finished pretty much everything as pencils at the very least .... so we get a lot of Williams pencils colored by Calvert's team, with varying levels of success.
I wouldn't say the film suffers terribly without the "eating Tack in prison" subplot that got cut, but I love Yumyum's reaction to Phido - "Get away, bird of evil!" I would kill to see these scenes animated. Wish I knew for sure what had and hadn't been animated .... but I can guess .... Calvert didn't touch these scenes, so that reduces the likelihood that these shots were finished.
Big news here - I should be getting in some works in progress of the Calvert cut, which haven't been seen before - one of them is poor quality but widescreen.
Looks like the quality of this cut just took a step up.