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Post #240288

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OgOggilby
Parent topic
The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Director's Cut (Released)
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Date created
1-Sep-2006, 2:39 AM
I watched the whole camera tests reel... good grief, it's awesome to see all these finished shots in pencil form. Especially the "death chute" near the end of the film.

A lot of curiosities, though... I spotted pencils for the shot right after the "flower ballet" shot with Yum-Yum placing them in the vase. You see it several times, with each instance becoming more refined. The 360 degree tightrope shot (with the thief) is shown completely finished with a complete background. Yet the partial take used in the film is from the "test" take with rough backgrounds! It's a really awesome shot since there's several layers to the background with it all shifting in perspective. I'm guessing it never shot on film, just on video for a test.

The letterboxed Princess tape looks quite good... a step up from the workprint. I like how we can finally see a properly centered version... with the workprint being too cropped on the left and the 16x9 DVD exposing too much on the left. The workprint-only shots in the Warner trailer are much sharper and clearer, but they have a lot of dot crawl.