Foodfight! Behind the Scenes Investor Reel Ziggy 2024-05-02 | This is a behind the scenes tour of the production of Foodfight! from 2006, hosted by director Larry Kasanoff sitting in the studio that the film was being animated in. This video was created to show current and potential investors what Threshold was doing for the movie. Threshold failed to meet multiple investor deadlines for the film to be completed, so videos like this had to be made to keep them up to date on what's going on. This includes a mix of animation from the pre-mocap and post-mocap phases of production. Much of it however discusses the mocap phase, which at the time this was being made was early-on for the production.If anyone has a higher quality copy of this, it would be much appreciated to be sent a copy.
NYIT Images II system demos Ziggy 2024-09-04 | In 1985 NYIT produced the Images II graphics system, a computer graphics machine for industry and educational usage.These demos displaying its usage were available to be watched at a Kiosk on NYIT campus as well as various consumer shows.The source would like to remain anonymous.
Disney Project Gemini demoreel Ziggy 2024-09-03 | Project Gemini was a face tracking animation project developed by Disney's Secret Lab and headed by Lance Williams for their own adaption of the film "Gemini Man." "Human Face Project," a short film showcasing the deaging process using Gemini, was showcased at SIGGRAPH 2001. However, with Disney's later cancelation of Gemini Man, Project Gemini was abandoned with it. Gemini's technology seems to have never been used in any commercial format.
Living Above the Mouses Ear Ziggy 2024-08-12 | The NYIT Computer Graphics Laboratory was a research facility located in the Gerry House of the New York Institute of Technology between 1974-1992. At the CGL a variety of accomplishments were made such as the invention of the alpha channel as well as the development of computerized 2D animation.Living Above the Mouse's Ear is a short film created by Duane Palyka and Hank Grebe, artists and animators of the lab. It was a joint effort between the Computer Graphics Lab and the 2D animation studio, which was originally founded for the production of NYIT's 1975 film Tubby the Tuba. Animators a part of that team include John Gentilella and Francis Glebas. Mouse's Ear was mostly animated on paper before the drawings were scanned and lined, colored, and composited digitally. The film was originally presented to Vestron Video in 1985 or 1986 for possible distribution, however it was rejected and never saw a public release or screening.This film was provided anonymously.The raw file can be viewed and downloaded herearchive.org/details/livingabovethemousesear
Compilation of animation from The Works Ziggy 2024-08-06 | This is a compilation of animation for the animated feature "The Works," which was in production at the NYIT computer graphics lab from 1979-1986. The Works was never finished and it's estimated that only around 10 minutes of animation was completed.The animation in this compilation comes from a trailer for the film uploaded by Video Center employee Richard Carter, a teaser contributed by Amber Denker, and two demo reels contributed by Matthew Harris.
Colonel Bleep color correction experiment Ziggy 2024-08-06 | Recently noticed that the existing episodes of Colonel Bleep have a wide variety of color fading and I wanted to try color correcting one of the faded episodes to a closer representation of its original appearance.
Florida Grapefruit Juice commercial (1991) Ziggy 2024-07-16 | Got a cheapo capture card from China, this is a sample capture using that capture card.
Foodfight! the Videogame: Original Soundtrack Ziggy 2024-06-29 | Soundtrack for the canceled Foodfight! videogame, not in order. Names come from file names. Dates from 2005-2006. Composed by Kyle Blondin.Everything after 36:12 was in the "not using" folder so there might be a few duplicates under different names (Polka seems to be identical to Carnival) but I included them anyway just to be safe.These files were in a large collection of assets from the game. You can read an in depth description of how this was acquired, along with the backstory behind the game, at my blog. mimeohead.blogspot.com/2024/06/this-was-foodfight-videogame.html
Foodfight! Video Game Pitch Reel Ziggy 2024-06-29 | This is the pitch reel for the Foodfight! video game that was being developed by Cat Daddy Games between 2005-2007. The game was never completed and most, if not all that was finished is seen in this reel. Cat Daddy has told me directly that they do not have a build to share of the game and do not have the time/resources to share the source.To clarify, I do NOT have the game and have already asked. Please do not contact anyone involved with Cat Daddy for a copy.You can read an in depth description of how this was acquired, along with the backstory behind the game, at my blog. mimeohead.blogspot.com/2024/06/this-was-foodfight-videogame.htmlYou can download all of the files I was sent for this game here: archive.org/details/foodfight-cat-daddy
Foodfight! Various lines and outtakes of Charlie Sheen as Dex Dogtective Ziggy 2024-06-29 | 85 files of Charlie Sheen saying various lines from Foodfight! as Dex Dogtective.Some of these were never used, such as "you sugar coated witch" instead of "you cold farted itch."These were given to Cat Daddy Games for use within the canceled videogame. Some of the damage sounds might not be Charlie Sheen but I honestly have no idea given that I'm pretty sure the lines I have of Sunshine Goodness recorded specifically for the game sound just like Hillary Duff.Files dated February 13th, 2007. Photograph is dated February 5th, 2007 so I'm pretty sure this was taken during one of the sessions these exact recordings are from!
Foodfight! Original Score - Walter Murphy Ziggy 2024-06-28 | Full score from the feature film Foodfight! Composed by Walter Murphy and put together in 2007.Pretty sure these are in order? Received in technically labeled sessions with a few rogue files that I'm pretty sure weren't in the film and only a few seconds long. Apologies if something isn't right though. Didn't have the patience to comb through the movie and match everything.
Foodfight! Original Teaser/Trailer Ziggy 2024-06-28 | This video, shared in 2005 to press and possible licensees, was created to introduce people to the production and concept of Foodfight! Hosted by producers Larry Kasanoff and George Johnsen, this also includes the original trailer for the film before it was changed in 2011.This is from a larger collection of files relating to the film that should be getting uploaded in the coming week.The original file was very poorly encoded, having been interlaced, downscaled, and stretched. Unfortunately, for it to be viewable without hideous interlacing artifacts, it needed a fair amount of enhancements. It has been generously restored to the best of the ability by @Notelu The unrestored version can be found at archive.org/details/foodfight-teaser
Restoration test for The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird Ziggy 2024-06-19 | Short restoration test of The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird using footage from the Bluray of The King and the Mockingbird and cleaned audio from the DVD of Mr. Wonderbird.The audio from Mr. Wonderbird is pretty poor and not much could be done to make it sound better, but I did the best I could without employing AI tools.For those who are unaware, The King and the Mockingbird is a French animated film that was originally animated between 1948-1952. It was released in an incomplete form as The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird and dubbed in English. In 1980, it was completed as intended and released as The King and the Mockingbird, also dubbed in English. (Though the original French version of Wonderbird seems lost.)The 1952 version is what was seen by anime pioneers such as Miyazaki and Takahata, so I thought it deserves a little more respect instead of being considered the runt of the two.
Tom Hignite - Musical Miracles (2006 tie-in single disc) Ziggy 2024-05-07 | This single CD was packaged with the Miracle Mouse: Cranky's Miracle children's book from 2006 that was a tie in with the proposed feature animated film of the same name. Starting in 2002, Tom Hignite, a real estate home builder owner and Disney-fanatic decided to be the producer and director on a fully animated, 2D feature film starring his own company's mascot, Miracle Mouse. This got as far as having a cast with names such as Jane Lynch and Ernest Borgnine as well as having animators from Disney's then-recently-closed Florida studio.Unfortunately, funding did not come easy and the original production seems to have shuttered around 2012 when it could not make its goal on Kickstarter.The most recent update is that it seems it was reworked into a 3D animated film titled FlabberGasted, but it's unknown if it was canceled, or if so why and when.The book, along with T-shirts and a full music CD album, was sold on the Miracle Studios website in the mid/late 2000s to help promote the film and the new business. The full CD still remains lost from what I can tell.
Foodfight! Q-Tip System Tests and Various Animation Ziggy 2024-05-03 | A few tests with the Q-Tip crowd system developed for Foodfight! by Brad Herman in 2000, along with a few shots from the original pitch reel. These come from a an old artist demo reel from 2001.Q-Tip was named after prop maker Michael Lynch's technique of using colored q-tip heads in the stadiums of The Phantom Menace to give the illusion of a crowd of people.
Foodfight! Various early animated scenes Ziggy 2024-05-02 | Between 2000-2002, Threshold Digital Research Labs produced 7 minutes of animation for their feature film Foodfight! to show to potential investors and the press. This reel was animated with key frames in LightWave and directed by Jim George and George Johnsen. While the reel still remains missing, this is most of what was in it.Not all the audio is accurate, some of it has lines dubbed over it from the table read audio on the workprint. But you can hear the original dubbing underneath their lines at certain points. (Mostly noticeable with Daredevil Dan.)There's a few scenes tacked at the end because I felt they were too short to put in order without being jarring. Was mainly just wanting to upload this so they're up anyway. There's a few extremely short clips I forgot to add, which can be seen in the behind the scenes video and the Q-tip tests, but this is 95% of what I've found.
Foodfight! Daredevil Dan Animation (~2001) Ziggy 2024-05-02 | This animated sequence was part of a longer, seven minute demo reel of animation shown to investors during the beginning stages of Foodfight's production. While the entire reel is still missing, this sequence is fully intact, being pulled from a workprint dated mid-2005. The workprint had some vocals on top of it from a table read, which I took out so only the original audio is left.This animation was made years before the change to motion capture, directed by Jim George and George Johnsen and animated in LightWave.
Foodfight! Investor Workprint Ziggy 2024-05-02 | This workprint, dated August 15th, 2005, was created early in the second phase of Foodfight's production when they were slowly converting to motion capture. Due to investors demanding to see an early cut of the film, Larry Kasanoff had a portion of the team cobble together this workprint using storyboards specifically drawn or composited for it. Many boards are quite rough, using renders spliced together with stock photos. This was due to time constraints on the storyboard artist. Before this, there were no storyboards for the movie except for the first 7 minutes, which were drawn when Dex was a human being and were for the demo reel. This was because Larry did not understand the point of storyboards and felt that they were not needed during production.At this time, there were no lines recorded for the cast, they were in the beginning stages of recording motion capture, there was nothing to show investors. This is just a bunch of storyboards stitched in with some animation from the demo reel that was done in 2001, which was made years before motion capture was even considered.This was specifically made just to show investors and was of no use to the team. Foodfight didn't even have enough material to put together a workprint (if they even made one) until at least 2007.
The Works (Teaser, 1980) Ziggy 2024-03-28 | Teaser for NYIT's unfinished animated film The WorksThe Works was an animated feature film being produced at New York Tech's Computer Graphics Laboratory between 1979-1986. It was intended to be the first fully computer animated film. However, due to technological restraints, only about 20 minutes of footage was produced, most of which test animation, before it was permanently halted. This trailer was provided by a ex-member of the NYIT lab.
Nick at Nite IDs by Eli Noyes and Kit Laybourne Ziggy 2024-03-28 | Maybe half a year ago from this date I had wanted to make a video about MTV"s Liquid Television. I interviewed an assortment of animators, did some deep research, but unfortunately the subject was so important to me I didn't trust myself to do it right. One of the people I interviewed was animator and director Eli Noyes. While the recording of our interview unfortunately was lost due to a recording error, me and Eli stayed in touch occasionally.During the project, he sent me a collection of commercials he had directed (and sometimes animated) in the past, along with some of his short films.Unfortunately, though I wish I could have talked to him more, Eli passed away this week. To celebrate his work, which has inspired me, I've decided to share what he shared with me.Noyes directed these short intertitles with his friend Kit Laybourne, also an animator, in 1987.Kit has already uploaded these to his Vimeo account years ago, however I thought I'd upload the tape that Eli sent me as well, just for the sake of sharing it.
Assorted commercials and bumpers by Eli Noyes Ziggy 2024-03-28 | Maybe half a year ago from this date I had wanted to make a video about MTV"s Liquid Television. I interviewed an assortment of animators, did some deep research, but unfortunately the subject was so important to me I didn't trust myself to do it right. One of the people I interviewed was animator and director Eli Noyes. While the recording of our interview unfortunately was lost due to a recording error, me and Eli stayed in touch occasionally.During the project, he sent me a collection of commercials he had directed (and sometimes animated) in the past, along with some of his short films.Unfortunately, though I wish I could have talked to him more, Eli passed away this week. To celebrate his work, which has inspired me, I've decided to share what he shared with me.Eli can be seen as the sleeping man in the first MTV countdown bumper, along with being the voice of the "Wow!" MTV bumper, which was fully animated by him. The clay Nickelodeon bumper was also fully voiced and animated by Noyes, and is extremely reminiscent of his style and beginnings as a clay animator.
Strawberry Fields Work in Progress Reel | July, 1989 Ziggy 2024-03-11 | This is a half-hour WIP reel for the canceled animated film Strawberry Fields. Strawberry Fields, conceptualized in 1985, was supposed to be a psudeo-sequel to the film Yellow Submarine, produced by Al Brodax. Brodax had made a deal with the Computer Graphics Laboratory of the New York Institute of Technology to create a new feature length animated film done completely in CGI. It would feature songs by The Beatles the same was as Yellow Submarine had done, but be a new narrative with original characters, omitting the Beatles themselves entirely. Given that Apple Records no longer owned the rights to the Beatles catalog, Brodax had to make an agreement with Vestron and ITC Productions, two companies that promised that they could give the permission for their usage.During production it was discovered that the technology was not advanced enough to be able to animate human beings properly. Because of this, it was decided that the characters would be 2D animated and placed on top of 3D rendered environments. The 2D animation was managed by Al Lowenheim and Lion's Den Studios before it slowed down in 1989 when campus owner Alexander Schuare disagreed with the use of 2D animation. Attempts were made to switch it back to 3D animation, however when Vestron and ITC Productions confessed that they don't actually have the rights, the film came to a halt in 1992.There were a few pieces produced between 1989-1992 that are not included within this reel, however the majority of which that is known to exist is here.There are some scenes that may seem confusing besides the fact that they are out of order. This is because, according to art director David Lubell, that CGL threw in some things that they had already animated beforehand into the reel because they thought it might fit. They might have also been included to gain the trust of potential investors in their impressive quality.The source of this tape would like to remain anonymous.Despite previous rumors, Don Bluth was not part of this film. However, animator Jeff Merghart, who worked on An American Tale, was a key member of the animation team. Bluth's style likely heavily influenced Merghart and therefore the look of the film.The complete soundtrack was intended to be:Michael Jackson - Come TogetherCyndi Lauper - Across the UnierseCrosby, Stills & Nash - BlackbirdRobert Palmer - Baby, You're a Rich ManSiedah Garrett - Hey JudeCheap Trick - Magical Mystery TourLuther Vandross - MichelleStevie Ray Vaughan - TaxmanN/A - Strawberry FieldsA handful of these songs can be heard in the reel, a few of which were recorded specifically for it. Cyndi Lauper's cover of Across The Universe is not included but can be found uploaded on YouTube as a bootleg copy. Jackson's cover of Come Together is pulled from the same performance on the 1988 film Moonwalker.A direct copy of the digitization I was sent can be found here.archive.org/details/strawberry-fields-wip-reel
Star Trek: The Experience - Borg Invasion 4D Ziggy 2024-02-24 | The entire short film presented in the Las Vegas attraction Star Trek: The Experience - Borg Invasion. Created by Threshold Digital Research Labs for Paramount in 2004. The attraction ran between 2004-2008.This copy was anonymously provided by a crew member.
Hersheys Really Big! 3D Show Ziggy 2024-02-21 | This is the full monoscopic footage for Hershey's Really Big 3D Show, a 10 minute short film shown at Hershey's Chocolate World between 2002-2013. It was created by Threshold Digital Research Labs and directed by Gary Goddard. This short film paved the way for future production on Foodfight! which much of the same crew would go on to work on such as animator Jeremy Yates, modeler Neil Fordice and character designer Jim George.Originally, when this film was presented in person the host that the main character refers to would be saying their lines in person. In this version the lines have been pre-recorded for reasons I'm not entirely sure. So it isn't quite the raw file that would have been used in the theater, but it's the next best thing (and also perfect for watching at home.)This was generously sent by an anonymous crew member.The 3D version can be downloaded atarchive.org/details/hersheys-really-big-3d-show-stereoscopic
F.R.O.Y.D. Commercial (1990) Ziggy 2024-01-28 | This is a commercial for F.R.O.Y.D. (For Reality of Your Dreams) a toy introduced in 1990 created by Carolyne Greene of New York City. F.R.O.Y.D. was created with the intention that he, in his existence, would be moral support. He did not have any actions, no special abilities, he was just a doll that supported you. F.R.O.Y.D. going to have a television show, his own theme song, extended merchandise, however he was far from a commercial success. Being sold in hospital gift shops and knick knack shops in the form of small figurines by Russ, this is as far as F.R.O.Y.D. got before he was demolished by toys like Cabbage Patch Kids or Simpsons merchandise.F.R.O.Y.D. appeared in the 1991 Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, had a mail-in poster avaliable if you wanted (though unknown what it looks like) as well as a story of how he came from another planet. Unfortunately, the details of his story still remain unknown, including a possible duet with rap group Run DMC that only exists in the form of Carolyne herself saying it only happened once.This commercial, one out of a few made, is the only one that's been found so far, on a broadcast recording on VHS found by my friend @foundstuff9655
The Thief and the Cobbler: Polished (UNFINISHED) Ziggy 2024-01-02 | This is The Thief and the Cobbler: Polished, a project I started mid-2022, spent about 6-7 months on, and never finished. Here's what I did get done, and while it's not anywhere near as nice as I had originally planned, it is watchable.The idea behind this project was to create a version of The Thief that uses the least amount of unfinished animation and storyboards as possible, with no jarring quality changes and retain a consistent story and consistent feel. This, I feel, I accomplished to a great degree. I found a lot of work arounds to include scenes without their unfinished shots, learned a lot in how the film was originally supposed to be edited, and various other little things here and there. This is the project as it was, with a few things tied up, when I abandoned it a year ago. Errors are rampant across this, the only thing I finished (for the most part) was the editing.mimeohead.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-thief-and-cobbler-practice-in.htmlIt was a fun project, I had a small team with me that I would speak to for advice on how to edit certain scenes properly or what should be done with restoring footage or adding music.The old team was:94-kunNoteluColmedyTacktoonsDoctor FoolpiemanRed MangostelomationTwigrphShimoAll the material used for this cut started as raw, unedited and unrestored material from film scans, DVD and tape rips, and other bits and pieces that can be found online in some shape or form. None of this came from other fan edits.
Glagos Guest (Screener Copy) Ziggy 2023-12-15 | Glago's Guest was the directional debut of Bolt and Big Hero 6 director Chris Williams. Set to be screened before the movie Bolt during its theatrical premiere, it was swapped with Tokyo Mater due to poor reception at test screenings. Since then, the short has remained unreleased and unseen by the public.This copy was found online being sold by a CD store in Los Angeles. There was only one bid.Merry Christmas.
The Making of Help! Im a Fish Ziggy 2023-11-11 | This is the making-of featurette included on the Help! I'm a Fish DVD. It includes clips of interviews with some of the crew (namely Alan Rickman) as well as brief looks at the animation process
B.O.O. (Bureau of Otherworldly Operations) clips edited in chronological order (kinda) Ziggy 2023-10-15 | This is a supercut of all the B.O.O. clips I have from various animation reels either still public or archived from privated/deleted videos given by friends. Had to really guess what the order would be, I think this is roughly accurate?If you see this and think to yourself "my god, I need to report this as a copyright violation!" and you yourself are not part of Dreamworks or represent them legally, please get a life. This movie was never finished, the effort that went into this film has been remarkably unappreciated because of that. Covering this up because you think it's "right" is only burying people's hard work and not protecting anything.Some scenes don't have audio, that's not a me, thing, that's just how they are.
BeatHead: Original Videogame Soundtrack Ziggy 2023-08-16 | This is the soundtrack to BeatHead, an unreleased arcade game by Atari Games. Being a very early rhythm game, BeatHead failed in comparison to then-new Street Fighter II when being field tested in 1993. Compared to BeatHead's weekly revenue of 25 dollars, Street Fighter mopped the floor with it making 20 times the amount.BeatHead's concept was birthed from the era's popularity of rave music and MTV. Every level has a fictional track title and artist appear in the bottom left as if it were a music video. Every background is patterned after psychedelic rave flyers, and the characters themselves use a similar style to Dire Staits' music video for Money for Nothing.Every level has a randomized track title and artist, so the songs aren't actually named. I have named them according the order I was presented on a play though, and are not the actual titles.0:00:00 - Introduction0:00:17 - Comf'tably Dum by Overture0:02:54 - Spiral Meningitis by Overture0:04:12 - Lips by Eat The Beat0:04:54 - Bite It by Eat The Beat0:05:51 - U R When U Beat by Eat The Beat0:08:06 - Stripped Ease by Sex0:09:39 - Unzipped by Sex0:11:28 - Gone'tlet by War0:12:58 - Grid D'igor by War0:14:16 - Psycho Trouncer by Rave0:15:22 - Voodoo Blues by Voodoo DoodooMusic was composed by Don Diekneite, art direction by Chuck Eyler, and hardware design by Lyle Reins.Album cover is a recreation of the game's title screen by me.
The Dancing Pumpkin (2000) Ziggy 2023-07-30 | This is The Dancing Pumpkin, a computer animated semi-short film produced by Silver Hammer Studios and based off the book by Howard Butcher.The Dancing Pumpkin was given a new spotlight when YouTuber Saberspark reviewed the film's 2017 sequel, The Dancing Pumpkin and the Ogre's Plot.Weirdly enough, I couldn't find a single copy of this movie online in a digital format. So, I thought I'd do the honor(?) of sharing it with others.
Cutscenes from cancelled videogame Surf and Destroy Ziggy 2023-07-07 | These are cutscenes 3 and 6 from Larry Kay's cancelled PC game "Surf and Destroy." It was meant to be released in 1996, however due to the declining business of the company Groier, the plug was pulled.These scenes are taken from the demo disc of the game. Weirdly enough, these scenes are not actually used, but pictures from them are used as placeholders instead. However, they were still included on the disc.
PLAYERS (Pilot, 1999) Ziggy 2023-06-09 | This is the pilot to PLAYERS, an animated TV show that was never picked up. PLAYERS was concieved by Joe Francis of Mantra Entertianment, the same Mantra Entertainment that made Girls Gone Wild and Banned From Television.It is based off his and his friends experiences in college.Animated by Max Ink Cafe. LLC, distributed and produced by Mantra Entertainment.PLAYERS existence was discovered by LMW user NPC on a VHS tape at a thrift store. After posting some pictures and clips from his TV screen, it was discovered that a company named Max Ink Cafe did the animation. Upon contacting the company's co founder Todd Perry, he had a digitized copy and sent it over.
Video Wars (1983) Ziggy 2023-01-05 | Couldn't find too much on this movie other than it's extremely rare and is a comedy sci-fi indie film shot in Philadelphia. As far as I'm aware the only screening it's ever had is at the Cinedelphia Film Festival in 2014, other than that it seems to be an extremely rare VHS release that was likely something only sold locally.The tape rip comes from badmovies.org user wrightmonger, who uploaded it to Mediafire and shared in 2014 on the badmovies.org forum.
Comparison in Restoring the Titles to Mr. Bug Goes to Town Ziggy 2022-12-27 | I haven't done media restoration in a while, wanted to try again, didn't turn out too bad! Most of this is automated clean up, not the best, more of a test of its capabilities. The quality isn't great, the highest quality version of the original titles for this movie is only in 480p, so that's what I had to use.
The Worlds Greatest Lover (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Ziggy 2022-09-27 | This is a rip of a physical vinyl album, my receiver and turntable are old and never been serviced, so they have a fair amount of feedback, so I apologize for what noise is there.Music by John Morris except for Ain't It Kinda Wonderful which was written by Wilder and sang by Harry NilssonNote, I'm too lazy to add timestamps to this video, I've been researching this movie for weeks and I'm finally starting to burn out.
The Worlds Greatest Lover (1977) (HQ) Ziggy 2022-09-10 | This is 480p, but I upscaled it to 1080 so YouTube wont destroy it with compression. So far, this is the highest quality available for this movie.
The Thief and the Cobbler Reference Footage (Adjusted) Ziggy 2022-08-26 | This is a camera recording of a 16mm projection of reference footage used for The Thief and the Cobbler. Richard Williams plays Prince Bubba and an unidentified actress plays Princess MeeMee in a scene that would later be cut from the film. The shoot is dated March 1984.The original video was uploaded by YouTube channel The Silent Man, at this link: youtube.com/watch?v=FoXrCDi5wdEThis was later re-uploaded by the Facebook page for the documentary The Persistence of Memory, which is what I've used, given that the original channel it was on has been shutdown for unknown reasons. All I've done is removed the audio (music added by the uploader) and corrected the perspective.
The Thief and the Cobbler - Removing Tacks Mouth Ziggy 2022-08-02 | I probably could have used After Effects for this but instead I used Photoshop because I like to punish myself, I removed Tack's mouth when it shows frame by frame so it better fits the original footage animated for the film.For those who don't know when the film was handed to Calvert's team in 1992 a fair amount of the studios involved where not aware that Tack was not supposed to have a mouth for the majority of the film, here I have removed it for it to be consistent with Tack's intended model.
Thief and the Cobbler Into City Sequence Restoration First Attempt Ziggy 2022-07-29 | This is my first attempt in restoring the "into city" sequence within the introduction of The Thief and the Cobbler, this was painstakingly animated by Simon Maddocks decades ago.While I'm aware line test for this exact sequence exists, it's been very difficult getting it to sync up correctly, and even if I do, I feel like it would make it look more unfinished.The song is High-wire by David Burman, from the film's soundtrack.
The Thief and the Cobbler Warner Bros Marketing Trailer ~1991 Ziggy 2022-07-27 | This was taken directly from Garrett Gilchrist's uploads, just deinterlaced. I don't think a full frame version of this is on YouTube so I thought I'd do that duty. Probably the closest we'll get to a trailer of Richard's original vision.This trailer was produced somewhere between 1988-1992, my guess is 1990, it mentions the film being in production for the past 24 years and I wouldn't be surprised if they used the publication of Williams' Nasrudin in 1966 as a benchmark, though it's been pointed out that many of these scenes were only completed in 1991.
Popeye (2013) test animation edited into animatic Ziggy 2022-07-27 | Since the animatic of the film was recently uploaded I figured I'd be the first to do what many have already thought of.
The Thief and the Cobbler Rotoscope Comparison Ziggy 2022-07-13 | Here is a comparison, as close as frame perfect as I could, between the early footage of Yum Yum and a scene from the Bollywood film Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (AKA Conqueror of Destiny).I apologize for the quality in which the film is in, finding a high quality version of it isn't that easy especially in the United States so I had to make due with the YouTube copy.
The Thief and the Cobbler War Machine Color Comparison Using SD Footage Ziggy 2022-06-17 | Using an older scan of the 35mm reels that has less exposure, I was able to make an exact color match to what the film looks like within Williams' unrestored workprint that was screened at the Oscars, A Moment in Time.
The Thief and the Cobbler, Film Restoration Test Ziggy 2022-06-16 | Here's a short 80 frame sequence from The Thief and the Cobbler that I restored using both automatic dirt filters and touching them up frame by frame. This is the first time I've done this so there are a few hiccups due to me learning the software today but for the most part it came out pretty good.
The Thief and the Cobbler War Machine Sequence, Color Corrected Ziggy 2022-06-10 | It's a bit of a WIP but this is a comparison between the original footage and something similar to what it should look like. The original, on the left, suffers from what I think is overexposure, so you can barely see anything. On the right it's not exactly what it should look like but it's relatively close given I had to do it just from eyeballing film stills. AI did not come in handy this time, I'm not sure why my program of choice doesn't work well with this footage, but it doesn't.
Melleny Brown - Hot Dogs & Sushi (Reconstruction) Ziggy 2022-05-26 | This is a new mix I just did of this song, now without the sound effects and Cyndi's dialogue. You can hear some ghosting but I think the benefits outweigh what's left that you can hear.
Deborah Harry & Robin Zander - Send Love Through (Reconstruction) Ziggy 2022-05-25 | Finally after much waiting I managed to create a fairly cohesive copy of Send Love Through. No cuts, no rearrangements, all one complete waveform just with some adjustments. I used the surround sound mix from the bluray and simply deleted any audio that had overlaying dialogue, with a little boost from background channels to fill the gap. The end product I think is a fairly good version of the song, and probably the most accurate without being direct audio from the movie.While I realize the mixing isn't great, a lot of that is MGM's fault, their mix is lacking compared to CBC's. I did try amending it but unfortunately the guitar accompaniment is too distorted to really make sound better, the most i can do is boost the vocals but I'm not entirely sure what this song should sound like. Regardless, this is what it sounds like in the film, and I'll keep it that way.
