It's originally was supposed to be hand drawn film, with Gerhard Hahn (directed such films "Asterix conquers America", "Abrafaxe: under black flag) as Director, and Tahsin Ozgur (did animation of Pegasus in "Hercules", Tarzan in "Tarzan", Abba in "Asterix and vikings", animation scenes in "All dogs go to heaven", "American Tail", "Rock and Rule",etc) and Nancy Beiman ( did some animation in such movies as "Goofy's movie", "Hercules", "Fantasia 2000", "Treasure Planet") as supervisor animators. But producer decide to cut off original team and turn this movie to cgi thing, giving it to his studio "Vanguard animation" (which did such masterpieces as "Space Chimps"). Another movie that show us how much producer decisions can ruin good movie.
@@UnderdogAlllife He's right. Apparently, the film was originally titled "Simsala Grimm", it was directly based on a popular German cartoon about fairy tales, and was made to be palatable for international audiences who had never heard of the show. Once John H. Williams got involved, it was switched to CGI, the crew was replaced, and all references to the original series were erased.
@@conormurnane6457 Well, actually project was supposed to be hand-drawn movie, even after It's switched from "Simsala Grimm" to "Happily N'Ever After" (Nancy Beiman and Tahsin Ozgur got some of rough pencil test animations). It's was switched to cgi, only after producer realized that "cgi brings more money than hand-drawn films". Also most of characters from final movie (Ella, Rick, Frieda, etc) was supposed to be in "Simsala Grimm" movie (i can post you a link to some storyboards). Doc Croc and Yoyo was only characters that was replaced in final film (by Munk and Mambo, of course).
Definitivelly vanguard animation should have stayed with 2d for this, it could have been a box office success but you know CGI was dominating the market those days.
Those sketches are absolutely brill! The concept art was so expressive, so accomplished, and so purposeful with such animated potential in 2d!
Honestly, the 2d concept sketches look much better than the final film!!! 🥰🥰🥰
I wish this film was hand drawn, cuz they pop off the page much much better than the cg counterparts.
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They look better in 2d drawings actually. Gives that Bluth style sometimes. I'd like to see more deleted scenes like this 🙂
It's originally was supposed to be hand drawn film, with Gerhard Hahn (directed such films "Asterix conquers America", "Abrafaxe: under black flag) as Director, and Tahsin Ozgur (did animation of Pegasus in "Hercules", Tarzan in "Tarzan", Abba in "Asterix and vikings", animation scenes in "All dogs go to heaven", "American Tail", "Rock and Rule",etc) and Nancy Beiman ( did some animation in such movies as "Goofy's movie", "Hercules", "Fantasia 2000", "Treasure Planet") as supervisor animators. But producer decide to cut off original team and turn this movie to cgi thing, giving it to his studio "Vanguard animation" (which did such masterpieces as "Space Chimps"). Another movie that show us how much producer decisions can ruin good movie.
Like how Kingdom of the Sun eventually became The Emperor’s New Groove?
@@UnderdogAlllife He's right. Apparently, the film was originally titled "Simsala Grimm", it was directly based on a popular German cartoon about fairy tales, and was made to be palatable for international audiences who had never heard of the show. Once John H. Williams got involved, it was switched to CGI, the crew was replaced, and all references to the original series were erased.
@@conormurnane6457 Well, actually project was supposed to be hand-drawn movie, even after It's switched from "Simsala Grimm" to "Happily N'Ever After" (Nancy Beiman and Tahsin Ozgur got some of rough pencil test animations). It's was switched to cgi, only after producer realized that "cgi brings more money than hand-drawn films". Also most of characters from final movie (Ella, Rick, Frieda, etc) was supposed to be in "Simsala Grimm" movie (i can post you a link to some storyboards). Doc Croc and Yoyo was only characters that was replaced in final film (by Munk and Mambo, of course).
@@UnderdogAlllife I'd seen a few pencil tests from the 2D version, but hadn't found any storyboards, I'd love to see them.
I love concept art
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Can you upload deleted scenes of the movie (+ alternate ending)?
Yeah. That would be amazing! Will you please do it, RedaDoodles?
Are they going to renew the movie like make the graphics better if so, it would be anniversary surprise 😘💓
Definitivelly vanguard animation should have stayed with 2d for this, it could have been a box office success but you know CGI was dominating the market those days.