The effect varies from shot to shot. It's never going to be perfect obviously because I'm combining a sharp looking DVD image with horrible ratty old VHS bootlegs.
Some shots look pretty good, others have issues. The march of the One Eyes looks pretty good because it's mostly monochrome stuff, so there are no colors to match, which makes it a lot easier. There are shots in there which I'd call perfect.
The workprint is not in true 24p, I had to just smudge the frames together to get 24p, so sometimes when there's really fast motion around the edges of the frame you can see the wrong frames poking through, and blah blah blah headache.
In all cases, you can tell I've done something to reconstruct the widescreen image. I'd say it comes off pretty well overall though.
It's definitely worth it to reconstruct the widescreen. These shots shouldn't be seen in pan & scan, and it makes the clear part of the image look even clearer.
I've done some work on some of the crappy Calvert shots in the war machine sequence, to make them look better.
There are some Williams-pencilled shots of the war machine on fire, which were animated on twos or threes - it looks awful since it should be on ones. I've put a double or triple layered ghosting effect over the animation - voila, it's now on ones, and looks great.
I did the same thing to two Calvert shots which attempted poorly to duplicate Williams' moving camera - so this is smudging inbetween frames of actual character animation, which looks awful, but it's more fun to watch than the actual Calvert shots, so screw it.
There's a bad shot of poorly-drawn lightning around the war machine. I should have redrawn that myself frame by frame, but I settled for color correcting every other frame to be very dark, so that the lightning looks slightly more realistic (and harder to see). I replaced one flash with a more realistic flash from elsewhere in the shot.
I also digitally created lighting effects to fake one important shot of Tack with the balls.