Writer. Filmmaker. Artist. Animator. Lost Media Expert. Film Restorationist. Shamelessly SheHulk, Thief and the Cobbler, Muppets, Super Mario 1993, Raggedy Ann.
Restored and colorized rarities and edits.
Muppets, Mario, Marina, Monty Python/ Neil Innes, Evil Dead, The Thief and the Cobbler and more.
Youtube (She Hulk, Doctor Who)
My artwork:
Imagine. She's got her Avengers candy bag. She's dressed up as The Wasp for Halloween, escorted by her father, Paul Rudd, who played Ant-Man, in the actual blockbuster film, Ant-Man and the Wasp.
But he's decided to go as Weird Al Yankovic
When people ask me why I think Ralph Bakshi's rotoscoped movies, or motion capture movies, are examples of bad animation, I go to Preston Blair's books on animation and just tap the sign
Hey, hello, I'm the guy who restored the 1977 Raggedy Ann movie by Richard Williams, multiple times, and this is looking very familiar.
Like, if you've seen the movie this is referencing, you saw my restoration.
The gang are BACK for a WAaAaAaACKY candy filled adventure! They also discover that their lives literally have no meaning. Woohoo! So waaccky!!!!!
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS EP 2 out on our YT now!! 🍬🍬
A red liquid turns the Blue and Pink Power Rangers into "punks."
US version: Kimberly wears a leather vest, hits on Skull.
Japan version: Dan and Mei rise up the ranks of organized crime, walking in on a six-figure cocaine deal and mowing down the Yakuza with handguns/tommygun.
CGI animation often lacks that clarity of staging, because these are 3D characters constructed to make sense from any angle. It's possible to warp and cheat them to move in a more stylized way, but this takes a lot of effort, rather than being built into the process in a drawing.
In animation you create key poses which are then inbetweened. As in this example by Preston Blair, the key poses are supposed to be very clear with strong silhouettes and staging, which may be cheated a little (or a lot) to look good from a single camera angle.
An animator wouldn't purposely draw something like this. The characters look very solid like toys. In 2D you'd call it lifeless. An artist would push this to give a sense of stretching and movement,to show the characters at the angles where they look best. This staging is unclear
"Artstation protest. Artists flooding the site with pictures saying NO AI ART, has utterly fucked up AI Art generators that were sampling art trending on artstation without permission. Thus proving that all these generators do indeed steal artwork."
The ironic thing is that some of the world's top traditional animators did work on this film, but not on the CGI main characters (left). They worked on the very short cameos by 2D-animated background characters like Roger Rabbit, MC Skat Kat, and the Three Little Pigs (right).
‘Final Space’ creator Olan Rogers confirms that the series is becoming a tax write-off for Warner Bros Discovery and will be gone forever from all official channels after Netflix takes the series down internationally.
All physical copies of the series have already stopped.
An example where this problem was avoided is the Hotel Transylvania series. Genndy Tartakovsky's work is very stylized, designed to be very flat and seen from very specific angles. It's also very cartoony, and he found that the CGI animators weren't getting that across at first.
Rare Star Wars deleted scene, recreated.
Spent the better part of a month on this. May still tweak it further. Will provide more info about sources later. This involved a lot of frame by frame animation, about once per second, and some low quality sources.
@DiscussingFilm
I don't know what else to say about someone who is dismantling a trillion dollar company, and undoing the contractual union TV and film work of thousands of artists, worth billions of dollars, as part of an elaborate tax fraud.
He's also a bigot.
In the 2010 My Little Pony TV series, characters were rigged to appear certain ways at certain angles, to allow for more limited TV animation. These models look like those from the Gameloft mobile video game,which can't use any of those cheats,and compromises between those views.
ERIC CLAPTON: I am a piss-drinking racist. Please enjoy my hit songs, "Boy I sure love cocaine," "I'm gonna bang George Harrison's wife," and "I'm sad that I killed my son"
BOOMERS: This man is God, to me
The animators doing the 2D background characters here have worked on animated films of incredible beauty, like Klaus, The Thief and the Cobbler, Fantasia 2000, and other films from Disney, Warner Bros and Don Bluth.
They should be animating the leads, not doing background cameos.
It's all about clarity of staging. It is possible in animation to always know "where the camera is" and make the key posing stronger and clearer. The second pose is basically just a different angle, but feels more "live action" or "inbetween," and would be unclear in silhouette.
They weren't stretching and squashing the characters, because they thought it had to be realistic in a real-world way. He kept pushing them to do more extreme posing and push the characters like 2D. This wasn't obvious to a CGI team, whereas a hand-drawn artist starts there.
Also note that there seem to be two of the character "Applejack," with Dale riding a strangely-recolored version with untextured hair. This suggests an unfamiliarity with the franchise being cameoed here.
@lesbianmedusaa
Originally Zondra from The Jim Henson Hour in 1989. She was a punk who ran the pirate station Gorilla Television with Chip and Ubu (and Marc Weiner and theoretically Paul Zaloom). She disliked the Muppets and wanted to provide an alternative. Reused for Darci in Muppets Tonight.
I am begging you to watch any Muppet project that isn't the Christmas Carol and realize that the main thing they do is not Muppetizing other existing movies
Abigail Thorn, best known for her YouTube channel Philosophy Tube, will play a role in The Acolyte. Thorn will be the first transgender actor to play a major role in a Star Wars project
(Source: United Artists)
@duneho
I spent eight years restoring an unfinished animated film called The Thief and the Cobbler, rehabilitating the film's reputation enough that the director (who was skeptical of my version) screened his copy of the film a handful of times theatrically. I was there. People got mad.
Legendary animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Animator's Survival Kit) has passed.
I spent 8 years restoring his unfinished film The Thief and the Cobbler.
I'll be posting a lot about that today so apologies for any spam and repetition.
Why should her Uncle Scrooge have all the fun?
Della Duck takes on her greatest challenge yet- to discover the legendary Five Lost Treasures and challenge Scrooge McDuck’s title as the Richest Duck in the World!
Play as Della in the 1989 NES Ducktales.
Warner Bros. Discovery declined at least one bid for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ that came in at $40M. The value of the write-off they will receive is around $30M.
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Elon Musk losing his reputation, business and $100 billion in personal wealth, so that he can unsuspend the Babylon Bee from Twitter, so they can tell the "identifies as an attack helicopter" joke another hundred times
@CorbynistaTeen
Remember how Finn (John Boyega) was supposed to lead a Stormtrooper rebellion in the last movie of his Star Wars Trilogy, but they didn't let him do it? I think he's doing it now.
For the Rebellion.
@BigJacks
You could kind of just walk into a place and get a job.
You know, like Boomer parents always say you can do, but which hasn't been true since 2002.
@Caldroids
@1followernodad
Food $0
Health Care $0
Education $0
Housing $0
Infrastructure $0
Killing Women and Children $14,000,000,000
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my empire is dying
It's been ten years since I released The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut Mk4, and about twenty-five years since my first experiments with Richard Williams' unfinished film. I've been doing an updated edit. Here, new frame animation is created at the bottom of the screen.
This is my wife after 1 dose of Pfizer on 1/5/2021 in the hospital. She was a very healthy 37 year old who managed a surgery center. Two years later she is still having major issues (shaking, tremors)
@Beelzebubesque
So, "Goncharov," which appeared on a shoe, appears to be a mistyping of Gomorrah (2008), which Martin Scorsese supported in its US release.
Ariana Grande confirms her album will be called “Eternal Sunshine”
— It is based off a Jim Carrey movie which the character goes through and rough divorce, then they try to erase their memories
Stephen Slesinger, not the Walt Disney team, introduced Pooh's red shirt and other familiar design elements on merchandise art in the 30s-50s, based on E.H. Shepard's work. While a public domain Winnie the Pooh cannot resemble the Disney version, this was all in place pre-Disney.
"The Recobbled Cut is perhaps the greatest endeavor in lost media recovery of all time, the ones to truly bump the lamp in their efforts to bring together someone's stolen passion project in the knowledge that it truly could've been great. "
Incidentally the animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) was directed by Richard Williams,who won 3 Oscars for that and A Christmas Carol (1971). He also wrote the textbook The Animator's Survival Kit and directed this unfinished film which I restored.
@punished_cait
Greta Gerwig: What if the Barbie movie was based on the universal experience of playing with Barbies, like a little girl would, something that is easy for any audience to understand, and can be the basis for its humor
Amy Schumer: What if you kiss my entire ass
@rosemynes
No, this is an explanation. The popular webseries "The Amazing Digital Circus" is making references to the 1977 film "Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure," which is basically only available in a restoration by myself. I am directing anyone curious to that restoration.
@randomsakuga
Hi everyone. I spent eight years restoring Richard Williams' The Thief and the Cobbler as The Recobbled Cut, and run The Thief Archive. Follow me.
Yesterday the Academy posted over a thousand pieces of art from this film, viewable here.