I really love how Don does the expressions of the characters such as the "th" thing with the tongue and how well the animation is. If only animations were only like this today
1:07 I like how that kid is reacting calmly despite being sucked through a wormhole and going God knows where. That's how you know it's a Don Bluth film.
I don't know. Something like that would have been more desired to some scary reality based things some of us went through. I think fantastical things would be easier for kids. It's an adventure..versus the realities some of us have to deal with day in and out for years. Villains are easier to deal with than evil and bad flawed people we know in real life. You can destroy a villain, not so much an abuser. That's part of why fantasy films are therapeutic.
...wish all the quests in new RPGs were that easy! :/ go there, talk to that guy, kill so many enemies, return to that guy, get another quest, do this, that and that, return to original guy and give him everything you earned to get the item you don't need to give it to other guy...and repeat :))
Producer guy: So I bet it will be very hard to find that magic 🦷. Writer guy: Actually it is going super easy, barely an inconvenience. Producer guy: oh really. Writer Guy: So can I make this a thing. Producer Guy: Well I was thinking we could have you do this very good Disney knock off and a mediocre Star Wars. Writer Guy: I mean those aren’t very creative but I am sure they will set me up for a great future in my career. Producer Guy: Ooh fingers crossed. Titan AE a disaster and Don Blush’s final film.
@@Treychik Wizard: give this letter to my apprentice on the other side of the room. *Mysterious music* Hero: ok, here you go your master wanted you to have this. Apprentice: oh ok thanks. *Triumphant music you get 750xp and the best early game weapon*
This is the most effort I've ever seen put into a *proof of concept* piece. I think this perfectly sums up *Don Bluth* when he doesn't have someone holding his leash: Cool base story concepts, gorgeous animation and visual design, zero plot detail coherency. XD
@@rosemoon3118 You mean he was until he got looked over for something else. Now he's trying to open up an animation studio for 2-D animation. Hope it works out.
@@thephantomoftheparadise5666 I really hate how hollywood is not respecting Don Bluth's wishes to bring 2d animation back, I really wished neflix went with an animated version of Dragon's lair.
@@matthewballon7553 It will be an animated version, the problem is that many news that have no source, reading that "Ryan Reynolds will be the voice of the protagonist", mistakenly announce that it will be a live action movie,and it is false, the film is animated in its entirety. The real info is on IMDB
I think this is the most Don Bluth Don Bluth has ever been, wow. If anyone needs a quick reel of what his work is like as an example, this is about as exemplary as it gets.
Just now, Don Bluth has finally opened his own animation company known as... well, “Don Bluth Studios”! So let’s just be hopeful as possible, that Don Bluth will at last make this a feature-length film!
Lee O Nardo As a person who can draw amazingly, that sounds like a great idea along with a Pac-Man Movie (where the characters are in their prototype PMW3 designs)! XD
I love your style, Don! It's just so fun, magical, and alive. I don't know how else to describe it. I've noticed characters are always moving, always doing something... no one sits still. It's very... detailed and fluid animation!
1:06 Wow, that kid learns fast, lol. "JAW BREAKER! SEE IT!" Amazing, advertisers spend months coming up with movie taglines and here you are flat-out saying "see it." Give 'em a point for honesty. Great animation! I can really feel the force and energy of the characters.
+TigerMystic10000 Blame that one on Warner Bros. The production was rushed thanks to them. Stanley was originally going to be a more complex and flawed individual.
Now I'm obsessed with this movie, it would be great if Don Bluth told us what the plot would have been, the personality of the characters and their names, especially the villains. What were they looking to obtain with the tooth? I have a feeling this movie was completed but never released for some reason. It would be great to see it complete.
0:18 Bro, Don went ALL OUT with just this single character and his body animation. I have no idea who he is, what he is but I DO know he's one evil sunnva gun with his demands!
This clip totally satisfied my craving for Don Bluth animation. It's Awesome!!! I've watched every piece of Don Bluth animation a bazillion times so it's great to see something I have never seen before! Nobody uses the principals of animation like Don. There so much appeal in the movement and the design!
Mr. Bluth should have done a Woody Woodpecker cartoon short and attached it to Back to the Future in 1985 while he still had that deal with Steven Spielberg.
@@ScroogeKamaziMD He did NOT make any Woody Woodpecker shorts. In fact, he never even attempted to do one. I'm just saying that he missed an opportunity to revive the character in the 80's, about a decade after Walter Lantz productions shut down and the studio's namesake founder sold the characters to Universal.
That was my first thought. Bluth always lets his mouse ears show one way or another. That makes it all the more ironic that Disney no longer wants anything to do with this type of animation but Bluth is still here, still drawing away.
It's really cool how Jawbreaker is a little bit of all of Don Bluth's work in one, I recognize animation from All Dogs Go To Heaven, Secret of Nimh, Rock a doodle, An American Tail, which were probably taken from this piece.
...Okay well that was the ultimate Don Bluth animation experience. That 1:48 is pretty much the best I can expect to see in hand-drawn animation for the rest of my natural life.
@@joshzuker8308it's a bit more than that but it's tracing over filmed footage. You can usually tell what is rotoscoped by how shaky the lines are. When drawn with film REFERENCE it looks like rotoscoping but everything stays within the film's physics. Most 2d animation since the beginning when using human characters that look close to real have used film references.
Adventure Time, Regular Show, Yellow Submarine, Superjail, Rock-a-Doodle, Robot Chicken, Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, Across the Universe, and freakin We are the Strange... are all SOBER compared to this. LOL
i read on his forums once that he would love to remake it, since he never got to do his own version. damn studios, rewriting screenplays without the concern of the director should be prohibited.
CLASSIC! You can see Bluth in every bit of animation here; especially Jaw Breaker kind of reminds me of Nicodemus (but a lot more hammy, of course) and the kid could be a humanized blond Fievel. Wish I knew what happened in the end... Also; Random Merlin Mouse: "Find the tooth and you will find Jaw Breakerrr." Kid: "Who has his magical tooth?" Random Pig Head: "Haha, I do! HAHA!" Kid: "We have the tooth!" Gosh, I love the randomness and the exaggeration.
Outstanding, It is simply amazing. "JawBreaker" a story of a boy that seeks to find a magical tooth, that belonged to a power dragon named JawBreaker, those who held the tooth, will command JawBreaker to do what he or she commands him to do. Now that is more original. I wish it was realsed on DVD in the 21st Century.
I can definitely see the inspiration from Dragon''s Lair here, and imagine the dragon's and monsters along with the lava would fit really well in the future Dragon's Lair movie.
Don Bluth was behind the original Dragons Lair in the 80s. He's an animator and director. So it would be very impressive for him to have ripped himself off (Dragons Lair 3D was also made by Don Bluth (and yes it is rather ill advised))
Always good to see more of your work exposed to the public. You are a great cartoonist and I feel that the odds of finding another like yourself would probably be a long time.
0:39 This shot looks like it was recycled. I’ve seen this in An American Tail (where Fievel is being chased by Warren T. “Rat’s” cats), The Land Before Time (where Ducky, Petrie, and Spike are sliding down a hill while Littlefoot and Cera are fighting), and All Dogs Go To Heaven (where he comes back to life and has the dream when he’s in hell).
Yes Bluth,you should've made this into a movie if you should've gave the film's distribution rights to menahem golan's the cannon group or new line cinema, because you know,you're 4 creepy films in the 90s should've distributed by new line cinema or Columbia pictures.
The little purple characters remind me of Figment from Epcot's Imagination with Figment. I really wish I could see more of this though even if it was made into a webseries or Netflix one. Though Bluth probably has no interest to do that with it, which is okay too.
Every time when I trying draw comic books or something else but I don't have motivation, energy or "spark" to do it, I always try look some old cartoons and anime which have been inspired me. And yes, Don Bluth is also one of my biggest inspirations too. The Secret Of NIMH, Land Before Time, An American Tail, I use to watch those movies when I was a kid in the 90's. And those movies kind a give me that influence that I wanted draw something intense, mature, emotional, or adventures. I have been draw comic books since 2012, and I still draw my series, and I have found fanbase that love my characters, and I have found friends who supported me. I even offer my comic book to the official publisher but they didn't take it because some program problems, but publisher still likes my style, and hope I could offer my works another time. So I am very thankful to Don Bluth and his team about that I have a chance to grew up with some great works of animations which gave me a spark to do my own comic books. Thanks Mr. Bluth! And good luck.✌✏
This would definitely be a welcome comeback if redone. Strange it was never produced - it seems at least as solid and elaborate as Thumbelina and other later films.
I really love how Don does the expressions of the characters such as the "th" thing with the tongue and how well the animation is. If only animations were only like this today
1:07 I like how that kid is reacting calmly despite being sucked through a wormhole and going God knows where. That's how you know it's a Don Bluth film.
Kids roll with things surprisingly well at times.
I don't know. Something like that would have been more desired to some scary reality based things some of us went through. I think fantastical things would be easier for kids. It's an adventure..versus the realities some of us have to deal with day in and out for years. Villains are easier to deal with than evil and bad flawed people we know in real life. You can destroy a villain, not so much an abuser. That's part of why fantasy films are therapeutic.
When Movie Got Cancelled This film
@@Cheshirestog Villain king sound like Mr.krabs
"you have to find the tooth!"
"where is the tooth?"
"I have it!"
"I found the tooth!"
well, that was . . . surprisingly easy.
...wish all the quests in new RPGs were that easy! :/ go there, talk to that guy, kill so many enemies, return to that guy, get another quest, do this, that and that, return to original guy and give him everything you earned to get the item you don't need to give it to other guy...and repeat :))
Producer guy: So I bet it will be very hard to find that magic 🦷.
Writer guy: Actually it is going super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Producer guy: oh really.
Writer Guy: So can I make this a thing.
Producer Guy: Well I was thinking we could have you do this very good Disney knock off and a mediocre Star Wars.
Writer Guy: I mean those aren’t very creative but I am sure they will set me up for a great future in my career.
Producer Guy: Ooh fingers crossed.
Titan AE a disaster and Don Blush’s final film.
*Pushes the button*
That Was Easy.
"You can't handle the tooth!"
@@Treychik
Wizard: give this letter to my apprentice on the other side of the room.
*Mysterious music*
Hero: ok, here you go your master wanted you to have this.
Apprentice: oh ok thanks.
*Triumphant music you get 750xp and the best early game weapon*
I had know idea what was going on but
This is truly animation Gold.
The world needs more Don Bluth
"See it!"
"I will!"
But i won't :(
It never existed!
This kid's tripping on Lucky Charms, man.
This is the most effort I've ever seen put into a *proof of concept* piece.
I think this perfectly sums up *Don Bluth* when he doesn't have someone holding his leash: Cool base story concepts, gorgeous animation and visual design, zero plot detail coherency. XD
We miss you Don Bluth! Come back to us!
+The Phantom of the Paradise He is coming back to movies and is currently working on one now, called"Dragons layer: the movie"
@@rosemoon3118 You mean he was until he got looked over for something else. Now he's trying to open up an animation studio for 2-D animation. Hope it works out.
@@thephantomoftheparadise5666 I really hate how hollywood is not respecting Don Bluth's wishes to bring 2d animation back, I really wished neflix went with an animated version of Dragon's lair.
@@matthewballon7553 maybe the dragon lair animated is still intact and flowing
@@matthewballon7553 It will be an animated version, the problem is that many news that have no source, reading that "Ryan Reynolds will be the voice of the protagonist", mistakenly announce that it will be a live action movie,and it is false, the film is animated in its entirety. The real info is on IMDB
I think this is the most Don Bluth Don Bluth has ever been, wow. If anyone needs a quick reel of what his work is like as an example, this is about as exemplary as it gets.
this looks like some interactive movie game like dragons lair. it has these blinking effects to react in some scenes.
I wish this was released. It looks like pure Don Bluth magic
This reminds me of " Page Master". With a Splash of Dragon's Lair mixed in.
That's what came into MY head!
The similarities are totally uncanny. I don't imagine it's a coincidence
WHY ISN'T THIS A MOVIE!!!!!!!
i know right
Just now, Don Bluth has finally opened his own animation company known as... well, “Don Bluth Studios”!
So let’s just be hopeful as possible, that Don Bluth will at last make this a feature-length film!
@@kieranstark7213 I'd prefer is he'd do a Space Ace project, Don sure can draw some great women xD
Lee O Nardo As a person who can draw amazingly, that sounds like a great idea along with a Pac-Man Movie (where the characters are in their prototype PMW3 designs)! XD
THEY JUST DISINTEGRATED THAT BABY RAT THING
me too -- his animations can be about absolutely nothing, but the exaggerated way he does his characters will always keep me coming back =D
Maybe this project can be revived for Don Bluth Studios.
I wish this was a full movie
I would love to see this movie. Would be awesome if it could be released.
bunnygirle26 It isn't a movie. It was a saturday morning cartoon that Don Bluth wanted to have the same quality of animation as his movies.
+Credin Jondel
JawBreaker seriously would've made a triple great great great Saturday Morning Cartoon.
This is a really weird candy commercial.
I just had a thought! Don Bluth should do an adaptation of Rainbow Brite!
oh my god that would be amazing 😍
Feels more like a Dragon's Lair or Space Ace style game than a movie.
I wish I could see this movie.
+IWasAPepper I think this is the only finished piece from it. This is the Don Bluth project that was cancelled.
I love your style, Don! It's just so fun, magical, and alive. I don't know how else to describe it. I've noticed characters are always moving, always doing something... no one sits still. It's very... detailed and fluid animation!
I'd love to see this in higher resolution scanned from original 35mm material. Hope you guys held onto the negative.
"Jawbreaker-see it!"
I would if it actually existed.
I would pay big money to see this in theaters
Ed: Can I have another jawbreaker?😋😋😋
Aw, man! The animation on King Jawbreaker is awesome. I wish I was that good.
1:06 Wow, that kid learns fast, lol.
"JAW BREAKER! SEE IT!" Amazing, advertisers spend months coming up with movie taglines and here you are flat-out saying "see it." Give 'em a point for honesty.
Great animation! I can really feel the force and energy of the characters.
One Tooth To Rule Them All
The tooth?
The tooth?!?
You can't handle the tooth!
I wish, he would have finished it ;v;
King: "They found the tooth?" *as Col. Nathan Jessup* They can't handle the tooth!
One Tooth To Rule Them All
Bluth's animation is like magic. I love it all so much.
It would make a better film than A Troll In Central Park.
+TigerMystic10000 Blame that one on Warner Bros. The production was rushed thanks to them. Stanley was originally going to be a more complex and flawed individual.
It would be more awesome.
TigerMystic10000 Only if it was treated right.
jacoblgames
Yep
agreed!
The King character was hilarious!
*I promise I'll never do drugs again, Dad. ._.*
0:17 Mad King: I DON'T CARE HAVE TO DESTROY THE WHOLE TOWN!!!! find that tooth these's a commands of jawbreakers himself.
I have no idea what any of that was about beyond "Someone got gipped by the Tooth Fairy," but I freakin' loved it.
Now I'm obsessed with this movie, it would be great if Don Bluth told us what the plot would have been, the personality of the characters and their names, especially the villains. What were they looking to obtain with the tooth?
I have a feeling this movie was completed but never released for some reason. It would be great to see it complete.
0:18
Bro, Don went ALL OUT with just this single character and his body animation. I have no idea who he is, what he is but I DO know he's one evil sunnva gun with his demands!
The two dragons locked in battle looked great.
"what the heck is that?" my words
This is like one of those surreal dreams that are a mishmash of various random stuff that's been on your mind XD
I wonder what are the names of these characters are aside from a kid named Rudy.
This is freaking awesome, reminds me of the Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games...Don, you are the best!
This clip totally satisfied my craving for Don Bluth animation. It's Awesome!!! I've watched every piece of Don Bluth animation a bazillion times so it's great to see something I have never seen before! Nobody uses the principals of animation like Don. There so much appeal in the movement and the design!
Mr. Bluth should have done a Woody Woodpecker cartoon short and attached it to Back to the Future in 1985 while he still had that deal with Steven Spielberg.
Wait ..... Don bluth made Woody Woodpecker shorts, what if mlhe made the 90s Looney Tunes shorts back in those years
@@ScroogeKamaziMD He did NOT make any Woody Woodpecker shorts. In fact, he never even attempted to do one. I'm just saying that he missed an opportunity to revive the character in the 80's, about a decade after Walter Lantz productions shut down and the studio's namesake founder sold the characters to Universal.
The dragons lair 2 is strong in this one
"The Tooth?
The tooth?!?
You can't handle the Tooth!!!"
i love the way Don Bluth made his characters have their mouths move and their body so very differently.
That shouty Monster King at 0:17 reminds me of the Lion from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
With a little of Bobcat Goldthwait.
HAR HAR HAR!!
That was my first thought. Bluth always lets his mouse ears show one way or another. That makes it all the more ironic that Disney no longer wants anything to do with this type of animation but Bluth is still here, still drawing away.
I heard he actually worked on animation for that movie, which might be why he looks similar.
It's really cool how Jawbreaker is a little bit of all of Don Bluth's work in one, I recognize animation from All Dogs Go To Heaven, Secret of Nimh, Rock a doodle, An American Tail, which were probably taken from this piece.
...Okay well that was the ultimate Don Bluth animation experience. That 1:48 is pretty much the best I can expect to see in hand-drawn animation for the rest of my natural life.
+J.D. Livin' Legend Goss I think some of it was rotoscoped, just saying. I'm not one of those haters.
+jacoblgames What's rotoscoping?
SuperYoshikong Tracing over people to draw complicated poses
@@joshzuker8308it's a bit more than that but it's tracing over filmed footage. You can usually tell what is rotoscoped by how shaky the lines are. When drawn with film REFERENCE it looks like rotoscoping but everything stays within the film's physics. Most 2d animation since the beginning when using human characters that look close to real have used film references.
This looks like a laserdisc game.
wow another rare gem from a great animator
Adventure Time, Regular Show, Yellow Submarine, Superjail, Rock-a-Doodle, Robot Chicken, Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, Across the Universe, and freakin We are the Strange...
are all SOBER compared to this. LOL
The tooth looks like a knife. And it is not a good idea to let a child hold a knife, especially if they're wearing a striped shirt.
I would have watched the shit out of this if it became a movie.
i read on his forums once that he would love to remake it, since he never got to do his own version.
damn studios, rewriting screenplays without the concern of the director should be prohibited.
Would have been a MUCH better movie than A Troll in Central Park!
holy shit a baby evaporated
That's the most AWESOME Go-Out-And Buy-A-Jawbreaker candy commercial that I've ever Seen!
CLASSIC! You can see Bluth in every bit of animation here; especially Jaw Breaker kind of reminds me of Nicodemus (but a lot more hammy, of course) and the kid could be a humanized blond Fievel. Wish I knew what happened in the end...
Also;
Random Merlin Mouse: "Find the tooth and you will find Jaw Breakerrr."
Kid: "Who has his magical tooth?"
Random Pig Head: "Haha, I do! HAHA!"
Kid: "We have the tooth!"
Gosh, I love the randomness and the exaggeration.
0:16 i love that bit,
the way he moves, the way he talks, the voice actor is great,
it's just epic.
Outstanding, It is simply amazing.
"JawBreaker" a story of a boy that seeks to find a magical tooth, that belonged to a power dragon named JawBreaker, those who held the tooth, will command JawBreaker to do what he or she commands him to do. Now that is more original.
I wish it was realsed on DVD in the 21st Century.
Wouldn’t it have been hilarious if Jawbreaker was a dragon made of jawbreakers?
Don Bluth movies are actually Dreamworks origins and i hope that Dreamworks will buy Dark Crystal
Cody looks like a geeky version of little Cale Tucker.
I would absolutely love to have seen this. Looks like incredibly imaginative stuff.
Bluth Proposed this to Paramount Pictures in 1992
I can definitely see the inspiration from Dragon''s Lair here, and imagine the dragon's and monsters along with the lava would fit really well in the future Dragon's Lair movie.
looks like a demo reel haha
Don Bluth was behind the original Dragons Lair in the 80s. He's an animator and director. So it would be very impressive for him to have ripped himself off (Dragons Lair 3D was also made by Don Bluth (and yes it is rather ill advised))
With animation like this, it makes you wonder why they never released it. It might've made a good arcade game like Dragon's Lair, and Space Ace.
Always good to see more of your work exposed to the public. You are a great cartoonist and I feel that the odds of finding another like yourself would probably be a long time.
0:39 This shot looks like it was recycled. I’ve seen this in An American Tail (where Fievel is being chased by Warren T. “Rat’s” cats), The Land Before Time (where Ducky, Petrie, and Spike are sliding down a hill while Littlefoot and Cera are fighting), and All Dogs Go To Heaven (where he comes back to life and has the dream when he’s in hell).
This was done before any of those films were made .
it was like an incohenrent explosion of Don Bluthness
How do you know it's a Don Bluth film? If people die in the first 10 seconds.
don bluth you are a talented animator
I wish this had come out, I miss this kind of animation. Its almost like you have to take a step back in order to be inivative anymore
Don, if you made this into an actual film, it would likely have a complicated plot since this short is hard to follow.
-S.
Yes Bluth,you should've made this into a movie if you should've gave the film's distribution rights to menahem golan's the cannon group or new line cinema, because you know,you're 4 creepy films in the 90s should've distributed by new line cinema or Columbia pictures.
I sincerely think this was to be a videogame along with his dragon's lair/space ace line up. It just looks that way to me...
The little purple characters remind me of Figment from Epcot's Imagination with Figment. I really wish I could see more of this though even if it was made into a webseries or Netflix one. Though Bluth probably has no interest to do that with it, which is okay too.
I see a lot of the ideas that ended up in Dragon's Lair II. Wow :)
He used bits of animation from his other films! Omigosh! Definitely The Secret of NIMH, and Thumbelina. This is awesome.
This looks like a LaserDisc video game.
This was glorious!!!:)
Don Bluth was one of the greatest animators ever!
@Joey Ford Agreed!! Hopefully he and Gary make a triumphant return very soon.
I hope this gets completed and released. If only so I can find out WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!
Did a cat kill Don's kid or something, because they rarely are seen in a good light in his films
Every time when I trying draw comic books or something else but I don't have motivation, energy or "spark" to do it, I always try look some old cartoons and anime which have been inspired me. And yes, Don Bluth is also one of my biggest inspirations too. The Secret Of NIMH, Land Before Time, An American Tail, I use to watch those movies when I was a kid in the 90's. And those movies kind a give me that influence that I wanted draw something intense, mature, emotional, or adventures. I have been draw comic books since 2012, and I still draw my series, and I have found fanbase that love my characters, and I have found friends who supported me. I even offer my comic book to the official publisher but they didn't take it because some program problems, but publisher still likes my style, and hope I could offer my works another time. So I am very thankful to Don Bluth and his team about that I have a chance to grew up with some great works of animations which gave me a spark to do my own comic books. Thanks Mr. Bluth! And good luck.✌✏
Amazing animation, really good movement really polished.
I am not one to say it "demands" any explanation, but that was fantastic. And deep.
Compared to the CGI cartoons that come out nowadays-well, there is no comparison. 2D hand drawn animation is forever the best
0:10 ..........is nobody gonna bring up that we just saw a Mother and Baby die? and the breakneck plot just chugs along like its nothin?
Resembles Jenner from "The Secret of NIMH" - same coloring, moody eyes, floating eyebrows - by same animator, no doubt.
Would've been insanely expensive as a Saturday morning TV cartoon, but manageable as a TV movie.
This would definitely be a welcome comeback if redone. Strange it was never produced - it seems at least as solid and elaborate as Thumbelina and other later films.
i would love to see this film in theaters!! Don Bluth should go back and animate at least one more film for his devoted fans!! :3
Now I want him to actually release this film. This looks AWESOME!