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Post #187589

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ocpmovie
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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Date created
28-Feb-2006, 9:00 PM
The great majority of this edit is completed animation in full quality widescreen DVD format. 70-80% sounds right.


You can see for yourself if you like - I can send you the rough version. Email me. Tygerbug at yahoo.com.



I had the pleasure of emailing today with Mr. Tony White, a master animator who wrote The Animator's Workbook. My parents gave me this book at a very young age - it may have been the first book on animation I ever had, even before I had the Preston Blair books (later combined into one book). The book is filled with beautiful illustrations, many of them from gobstoppingly gorgeous commercials White worked on at Richard Williams studio. White, of course, worked on The Thief and the Cobbler briefly, and trained with Art Babbit and Ken Harris, animating projects like the titles to The Pink Panther Strikes Back before starting his own studio. I recommend his book - interestingly it makes a very good companion to Richard Williams' own later masterpiece of a book, The Animator's Survival Kit. There are many similarities between the two.

Anyway, I took a chance and emailed him - I geeked out completely because of growing up on his book - and he was very nice - he now teaches animation up in Washington and tries to teach his studios about the "golden age" of experimental, realistic, beautiful animation that was going on in London back in the 70s and 80s, as a result of the Williams studio, and studios including White's own. He definitely wanted copies of anything I've been able to dig up on video.

I've sent him a copy of my rough cut of the film, and other things. It's an honor.