The good workprint from Emule needs to be torrented somewhere.
>> it's interesting to see how sexualized the film is, as evidenced by the sketch of Yum Yum sitting on Nod's lap with her boobs in his face.
That shot isn't in the film - that's why I posted it. Very strange pose.
I like the final Yumyum, but then I like sexy princesses. The early designs are neat, but would be way too tame and Disney. Wouldn't really fit in this film. Think about it - at the time of "Once" she might as well be your Standard Disney Princess. Belle comes close.
The abstract sexuality of the final model actually fits the abstract design of the film, in a weird way. Her curves are bizarre but artful, and fit the bizarre but artful curves elsewhere. The face is expressive and appealing.
But yeah, that pose isn't in there. The movie is more like this (my traced art):
Than this:
>> Also, unless you start finding a lot more modern sketches of the Cobbler in his more masculine form, I'm inclined to think that Williams decided that he didn't want the Cobbler to change by such a degree, as the audience might have stopped empathizing with him. He's interesting as an innocent looking, rounded character. But the skinny angular looking version is just...meh.
I think they decided to make the change less obvious, yeah, especially in the face. But it's still evident in any storyboard in the workprint. Because Williams never animated anything of Tack in the entire end sequence, it's really hard to tell. Calvert's team didn't quite understand the changing Tack ... or anything else. Although you can still see it in your work.
>>Looking forward to seeing all of this stuff. Should I expect to suddenly see my gmail account completely filled up a couple weeks from now, with about 4000 attachments?
I'm a link man.
Upon watching the first scene with King Nod again, it looks to me like the test shot of Tack walking (seen in the Warner trailer) was used, for the most part, as Zigzag says "This lowborn cobbler of no worth attacked me in the square today" .... I think the first shot of Tack being shuffled into the throne room is also from that test shot. I'll have to check when I have a proper copy of the Warner trailer I suppose.