Ha ... if it's any consolation, I've restored the entirety of that shot at the end.
It's tough to work with what Calvert gave us sometimes ...
Because the shot is longer, it also works as an introduction of Tack. Better than what I did in the rough cut, just splitting shot 2 up into two parts!
>> Oh yeah, you're going to cut out the bit with the nurse angrily pushing Yum-Yum out of the room away from Tack, right? I hate how that was added since she isn't indignant like that anywhere else in the film... and Tack just fixed her glasses.
Nope, that's staying in I'm afraid, for various reasons. Mainly because it's a gag. Yeah, in Calvert's version he had this whole thing with the nurse disapproving of Tack and Yumyum, and coming round at the end, which was a laughably half-assed attempt at a character arc.
In my cut, I'm just including it as a gag, that the Nurse gets impatient with Yumyum and drags her away from Tack for her bath. No meaning beyond that. I've recut it to reflect that.
A few reasons ... obviously it's completed animation, which helps it be more entertaining than storyboards ...
But here's the MAIN REASON, I like the shot of the Nurse getting impatient (tapping her foot), it looks Williamsesque.
There's a reason for that. Check your Calvert work in progress DVD, and you'll see this shot in pencil test form, animated by Williams as far as I can tell.
Yep!
So I'd be cutting Williams animation, just that one shot. I think Williams intended something similar to the scene as it plays out in Calvert's cut, but less confrontational ... no pushing!
The gag adds a bit of business to an otherwise pretty straightforward scene, and it's finished animation so eh.
EDIT:
Watched the new bath scene, featuring the different Yumyum pencils. Works quite well actually. This scene will now have no more storyboards.
I'm undecided on the shot of Yumyum covering her nose. It works well to use the version without Meemee in it .... the animation is pretty decent ... but this version of the shot is shorter, so to extend it I had it run backwards at the end ... and it's obvious and lame.
Hm.
Not to be crude ... but whoever animated this version of the bath scene didn't bother to have the water/suds cover up Yumyum's torso - looks like she's out of the water at the beginning of shot 2, and all of shot 1 is okay but questionable. I assume they would have done something clever to avoid showing anything.
The first Yumyum/Tack "getting to know you" scene is missing from my AVI of the workprint due to some sort of data error. Is this true for everyone else too?
Not a problem as I can get it from the Stanch workprint, but eh.