I'll forever be grateful to you, your father and all of the other great artists and animators who worked in this incredible film. The cobbler is my favourite - thank you for bringing him into the world.
My favorite professor from university worked on this film as a background artist and did some layout for it if I recall correctly. I believe he was good friends with your father as well and at every class we would start by watching some of your father's tips from the TASK Dvd. It was a ritual. :)
Holy cow, you did that amazing walk cycle for ZigZag!? Good sir, it is an honor and a privilege to be able to express, that YOU are one of the many reasons I got into animation many years ago. That walk was one serious spark of inspiration in my youth! I can't believe you did that. Fantastic work, sir! To this day, only a fair few can hold a candle to that sequence. Bravo!
This movie was one of my main inspirations to take up animation. I am very sorry to hear about losing the film years ago and the loss of your dad from last year.
Thanks for this short insight into working on "The Thief", it must have been a very inspirational workplace. It is impossibly sad that it was never completed as intended by your father. But even unfinished, the work that you all created is amazing in every way. Certainly one of the best and most detailed animation ever created. It is still an inspiration to me, something to aspire to as an animator, thank you!
Thank you for making this Alex. As with all the other comments, I am so thankful that this film exists. I have a question that leads on from this video. I love that you improved your skills from re-drawing the animation by the legendary Art Babbit. I know that many animators in the 80's and 90's would go to the Disney Archive and pull out Milt Kahl's animation and study them to improve their animation. This way they could see the key poses, the timing, spacing and exaggeration. Is there any equivalent resource for CG animation to study the key poses, timing and exaggeration?
Key poses are the same in cg as in 2d animation. There is no difference. So as a 3D animator you can learn just as much from milt kahl as a 2d animator can.
hi Alexander, I am an Italian fan of The Thief and the Cobbler, I am completely sad that the film was ruined! luckily the AMPAS filed the almost complete Workprint called A Moment in Time, I'm curious to know how it is! and I would like them to release on DVD
@Alexander Williams @@paolofabbella7954 All I know is that Miramax still owns the US/UK rights. BUT, with Miramax being 49% owned by Paramount which INCLUDES home video rights, perhaps you can talk to them about sublicensing the film to Criterion along with both released cuts (I know you'd be against it but it would add to a historical value to it).
Do you know if audiences will ever see the rest of what was animated for Richard's last short, Prologue? I knew he was working on it till the day he passed, but i wonder what happened to the unfinished segments we never saw
I'll forever be grateful to you, your father and all of the other great artists and animators who worked in this incredible film. The cobbler is my favourite - thank you for bringing him into the world.
Thanks for the kind words
My favorite professor from university worked on this film as a background artist and did some layout for it if I recall correctly.
I believe he was good friends with your father as well and at every class we would start by watching some of your father's tips from the TASK Dvd. It was a ritual. :)
What was his name? I probably know him
@@asteuartw Douglas Kirk ! :)
Ah yes Douglas Kirk - lovely chap. Very talented too.
Holy cow, you did that amazing walk cycle for ZigZag!? Good sir, it is an honor and a privilege to be able to express, that YOU are one of the many reasons I got into animation many years ago.
That walk was one serious spark of inspiration in my youth! I can't believe you did that. Fantastic work, sir! To this day, only a fair few can hold a candle to that sequence. Bravo!
Thanks!
This movie was one of my main inspirations to take up animation.
I am very sorry to hear about losing the film years ago and the loss of your dad from last year.
Thanks!
@@asteuartw You're welcome!
Hope your doing good.
Thanks for this short insight into working on "The Thief", it must have been a very inspirational workplace. It is impossibly sad that it was never completed as intended by your father. But even unfinished, the work that you all created is amazing in every way. Certainly one of the best and most detailed animation ever created. It is still an inspiration to me, something to aspire to as an animator, thank you!
Are you a fan of the Recobbled Cut?
Yes garret did a great job
Thank you for making this Alex. As with all the other comments, I am so thankful that this film exists. I have a question that leads on from this video. I love that you improved your skills from re-drawing the animation by the legendary Art Babbit. I know that many animators in the 80's and 90's would go to the Disney Archive and pull out Milt Kahl's animation and study them to improve their animation. This way they could see the key poses, the timing, spacing and exaggeration. Is there any equivalent resource for CG animation to study the key poses, timing and exaggeration?
Key poses are the same in cg as in 2d animation. There is no difference. So as a 3D animator you can learn just as much from milt kahl as a 2d animator can.
hi Alexander, I am an Italian fan of The Thief and the Cobbler, I am completely sad that the film was ruined! luckily the AMPAS filed the almost complete Workprint called A Moment in Time, I'm curious to know how it is! and I would like them to release on DVD
Yes that would be great!
@@asteuartw I want to know if anyone has a copy of A Moment in Time. who owns the rights?
Sadly I do not know :(
@@asteuartw it's a shame but I believe the rights to A Moment in Time are held by AMPAS
@Alexander Williams @@paolofabbella7954 All I know is that Miramax still owns the US/UK rights.
BUT, with Miramax being 49% owned by Paramount which INCLUDES home video rights, perhaps you can talk to them about sublicensing the film to Criterion along with both released cuts (I know you'd be against it but it would add to a historical value to it).
Thanks you for making this.
My pleasure!
Do you know if audiences will ever see the rest of what was animated for Richard's last short, Prologue? I knew he was working on it till the day he passed, but i wonder what happened to the unfinished segments we never saw
Possibly, it's hard to say. Sadly it is very much out of my control.
Exactly how hard was it to animate on this film?
Tough but rewarding
Are you hoping the film would be finished and get a proper release soon?
Did your father get any money from Roger Rabbit or its merchandise?
Good question! He got his salary - nothing more.
is that a Ruber bust in the background?!
Yes indeed...the maquette from the production