congratulations ocp for sucha an incredible enford!!! and beside this proves how tiny was the fraction of the movie unfinishied. was it soooo terrible let williams finishied in a little bit more time instead of fire the man who created and destroy the work of his life?? i can't imagine the kind of depretion williams must got in with that. i wonder what is richard doing right now, if he is envolved in some new proyect, if he keeps animating for himself or doing comercials becouse his last finished movie was rogger rabbit. i have no idea what happend with him after they screwed his master work with arabian knight. ocp you have been in touch with his son, did he tell you something about him?
btw some post ago you put a new version of the dvd cover but without the link to the high res file, the link was only for the cd i think. if you could post it i'll be more than thankfull so i'll have such an amazing dvd in a preety box!
something weird happened to me today as i was watching the movie. my mon steped into the room and started to watch it too. i say she would be a tipical viewer, an average mom with no knolage of what's good animation and she said "what ugly drawings" and stop watching it and left. that leave me thinking about the producers don't wanting to take a risk with such a boudbraking movie. the visuals are very weird and styled for a regular joe to watch it and also the plot with silent characters shouldn't like to the executives pretty much who just wants to win money for the movie they invested in. i think the thief and the cobbler is one of the best animated movies i've seen but i'm an animator and i'm watching also lots of technical stuff that's amazing and the all the background cool designs. it's a master piece for me but i think for an average guy wouldn't be so interested in animation and watching an inovative movie i think definetly not. what a shame...
anyway, thanks again ocp and perhaps thins inspire williams to finish it!
julian from argentina
ps: sorry for the crappy english