In this cut I'm trying to avoid really showing what I'm doing - I'd like it to be sort of invisible. If it looks choppy and cobbled together it takes people out of the movie. For example - there's a shot of The Thief climbing down a tree in the polo game (which we now have the pencils from by Ken Harris) ... in the rough cut I spent years on this shot, pasting the clear version of it from the Calvert credits over it, painting out the credits ...
Problem is, no matter how much time you spend doing that, the Calvert credits are still running at a different frame rate (the workprint frames being smudged together), with a big dark patch in the lower right corner.
So no matter how much work I put into it, it never looked clean, it just looked like I'd spent a lot of time doing something that didn't come off.
So I said screw it to all the work I'd done and just ran the workprint version, which looks fine.
So ... eh.