Thief and the Cobbler Color Tests: Richard Williams Animation
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Rare behind the scenes footage from the making of The Thief and the Cobbler, Richard Williams' sadly unfinished animated masterpiece. Similar to the way pencil tests are shot in animation, the finished, colored cels were shot on PAL video first so that elements of the animation could be tested.
Some of these shots have not been seen previously, and we focus on details that are easy to miss in the final film. Some of this material will feature in The Thief and the Cobbler Recobbled Cut Mark 4.
Richard Williams is the legendary, triple Oscar winning animator of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Thief and the Cobbler, A Christmas Carol, and Raggedy Ann & Andy - A Musical Adventure.
British based Williams has won 3 Oscars (for Roger Rabbit and A Christmas Carol), 3 British Academy Awards and over 250 other international awards.
He is also known for his unfinished masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler, which was never released as intended but is available unofficially on the internet as "The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut," a restoration of the intended version of the film, on which he spent 23 years.
His credits include The Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, What's New Pussycat, Casino Royale, The Charge of the Light Brigade, and hundreds of acclaimed television advertisements.
Richard Williams' current project is a 16-DVD boxed set which brings together his legendary Masterclasses with his best-selling book to create The Animator's Survival Kit - Animated. This has over 350 specially animated examples intercut with his 4 day Masterclass filmed at Blue Sky Studios in New York.
In the 1990s he gave the Richard Williams' Animation Masterclasses around the world to participants from studios such as Disney, Pixar, ILM, Dreamworks/PDI and Warner Bros followed by the best-selling The Animators Survival Kit (2001).
During his more than 50 years in the business Williams has been one of the true innovators and serves as the link between the Golden Age of animation by hand and the new computer animation successes. Perhaps even more important has been his dedication to passing along his knowledge to a new generation of animators so that they in turn can push the medium in new directions.
'Absolute animation genius' - LOS ANGELES TIMES
'Arguably the best animator working in the field today' - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Voted by peers as 'The Animator's Animator' - OBSERVER
'The only "genius" genius to come along in animation in years ... probably one of the most respected draftsmen in the world.' - LOS ANGELES TV TIMES
OSCAR: Special Academy Award 1989, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
OSCAR: Academy Award - Special Effects 1989, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
OSCAR: Academy Award 1972, A Christmas Carol
BRITISH ACADEMY AWARD: Special Achievements 1989, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
EVENING STANDARD SPECIAL AWARD: Distinguished Contribution to British Cinema 1989, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
BRITISH ACADEMY AWARD: 1958, The Little Island
EMMY AWARD: 1982, Ziggy's Gift
WINSOR McCAY AWARD: 1984, Distinguished Contribution to the Art of Animation "Annie"
Evoke happy memories when I was working as an animator at Richard Williams studio for many years,very creative time,fabulous design hard work and a great time
woah that's crazy cool
Really? That’s remarkable!
The thief and the cobbler
In Russia credit by kostya lunime pictures
What Miramax did to Richard Williams is a crime against art.
Explain please
there are no laws in art. you can't rape films
One word:
Weinstein
Another word:
Pervert
@@kodaspaws They made two characters speak and add in useless pop culture references, along with the mention of the Thief going to Disneyland after he steals the golden balls at the top of a building.
People made the godlike animators, Look like an very smoothly animation frames are amazing, This unfinished British indie animation film is made by London studios one-person and full teams
One of my favorite things about this is everything.
I won't lie, these all look pretty nice.
Such a beautiful film...
Thank you Felix Sputnik for leading me here
amazing, thank you.
Rip Richard Williams
I I think if he would've got more studious to help him with this the film could've actually made it to theaters somewhere in the 80s or 70s tell me if you agree or not.
I agree with you. If it was completed in the 1970s, that could've been a smash hit.
*GASP* It's crazy how they animated those camera turns by hand and were on par (or better) with big budget 90s animation which used cgi to achieve a similar effect... All this unfinished stuff is a masterpiece, even in its current form!...!
I wish all the animators on the entire planet earth can completely master that technique and all medium in animation like Richard,which is something that I kinda want to do.
I know, right? I have no idea how they kept the animation so consistent, especially with all the detail in the buildings! *They even drew the final linework with an ink pen, so if they made even a single mistake with the linework on the cels, they would have to start all over again with a new cel until they got it right. Rinse and repeat until you have a completed scene, and then start the process all over again...*
@@Joshua_Quinzel_Isley Same. That's what I strive for, too, but Richard Williams said himself that it was only when he started on his short film _"Prologue"_ (shortly before his passing, rest his precious soul) that he felt he had learned enough to do everything with the medium of traditional animation.
Screw what would you do for a Klondike bar, what would you do for a thief and the cobbler cell
Edit: these aren’t jokes if you know I will do questionable things
In Memory Of Richard Williams
(1933 - 2019)
Animation director of The Thief And The Cobbler
Legends of the animation will never faded.
The greatest Mastery of Animation.
Hands down!
In Memory Of Richard Williams
(1933 - 2019)
Animation Director Of The Thief And The Cobbler
Such expressive pieces - so sad we'll never see them in there full glory.
There is a pretty much complete version of the movie out on UA-cam somewhere (or at least there was a couple months ago). There are a few scenes here and there that aren't entirely finished, animation-wise, but it doesn't really take away from the movie-watching experience too much. All the animation is beautiful, finished or not, and the Tchaikovsky and voice acting make up for any lack.
+sorwoggpm It's called the re-cobbled cut.
Wait, all this time I thought that people were animating this film since 1964 to 1993, but the most of scenes were actually made just in two years (1991-1992)
This is crazy...
Judging by the dates written to names of the scenes, the shooting went on for 4 months.
I really like fact that from 18th to 20th of December, animators have such a good and strong New Year mood that they decorate names of the scenes with cute drawings of mistletoe, Santa and Christmas trees. It's absolutely adorable.
so many frames for just seconds of animation.
Man I love this film, & i'm doing my art course work based on his work
The same animation style of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” by Richard Williams.
Can some one explain how the man animated this? Thanks...
supermantahoo practice
1 frame at a time
I'm gonna state out the truth; Every single frame of the first animation scene (sc HUNTER), starting with the frames at 0:08, up to the animation's end, spook the shit out of me.
Which is strange, considering it looks fine in the actual movie.
7:15 the middle finger... V
RIP Richard Williams
I dont really wanna watch the movie that was released because I heard it's a travesty, but I looooove this animation
Good to see the new footage. Please PM me when V4 is ready?
It is the 4th edition of the fan restore of this film.
Read the wiki about the history of the film and understand why it needed to be made, watch the recobbled cut mk. 3, and share.
7:15
amazing stuff thanks for the post
color tests made in 1991 and 1992
fascinating
Killer!!
Did you use some of these scenes for the recobbled cut?
Not many, but some.
@@TheThiefArchive Interesting, did you thought about upscaling the low quality scenes?
Low quality material would not respond well to upscaling. I have recreated a few scenes in HD for the upcoming edit but it's a difficult process. Current upscaling tech is not up to the task.
@@TheThiefArchive Ok, thank you for responding me, I love your work
I worked on this for a year and a half, mostly on the king and ZigZag scenes. I was inbetweening most of those scenes you see in these tests.
That’s so cool! Do you still work in animation?
@@DrButthugger Video games development for a few decades, mostly 3D animation. Traditional animation wasn't for me.
The photogram speed IS 60 fps
finally, the animation movie is 30 fps god.