Tyger, from a mere dreamer of features to a guy who's had the guts and the talent to make them happen, keep it up pal. It's a gallon of gasoline, it's a box of matches. If a piece doesn't "say" something at any expense, how is it art?, it's just a commodity. I think you have to be the kind of person who'd let the "business" end of your undertakings go to hell so long as you do what you want to do - and say what you feel you have to say. I don't think just because somebody draws - or even draws well - they're an "artist". It's entirely different nowadays, when art's become a commodity - thanks a lot Andy Warhol. But the greatest artists of recent times have all defied commerce - they had to eat, sure, so they did sell their art, but they didn't create their art /in order to sell it/. It wasn't until art became a profession that it was linked to commerce - and then you have, well, centuries of portraits of rich old goofs, with a Bosch or Michelangelo or Rembrandt every couple decades or so. :) Caveman didn't paint on walls to sell a blessed thing, neither did the Greeks craft their sculptures to - in both cases, art was a /social/ endeavor, not a commercial endeavor. Art hasn't "always been linked to commerce", that's silly. I don't think cartooning qualifies as "art" unless it expresses something worthy of the word.
I'm doing my utmost to learn how to animate precisely in order to give everything I do on my own away for free?, so um there /are/ people who don't quite meet your logic i guess, it's not an utter impossibility. Yeah!, art and commerce mix /great/!, just ask Saatchi & Saatchi. and, for those who want them, Arabian Knight (widescreen) and the Princess and the Cobbler (not widescreen).įor more information, visit our lovely thread about this project. "Animating Art" (poor quality but it's about Art Babbit and his work at Williams' studio) Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure Īny other opening titles you think I ought to include? Ĭharge of the Light Brigade segments in DVD quality, Return of the Pink Panther titles in DVD quality. Lots and lots of Williams studios commercials, in, er, watchable-ish quality. Ziggy's Gift and other Ziggy cartoons, DVD quality Thames documentary on The Thief, 1 hour long, wonderful and digitally restored. ĪND, ON OTHER OPTIONAL DISCS FOR TRUE WILLIAMS FANS. So they're fullscreen, whereas my final edit will be all widescreen.Įnjoy them, they're my three favorite scenes from the film.ĭigitally-remastered widescreen version of the original version of Thief and the Cobbler, taken from beautiful DVD sources but matching the workprint. These are not from the edit I'm doing now, they're from older edits I did. I'm going to post three clips from the film here. So, if you can't do the segmenting thing, that'll do nicely. I was able to upload this much to my server before it stalled out. If you don't have a program that can join these two files, check this one out. The two will join together into one lovely file.
Anyway, when you download these two parts, you have to open up Stuffit (I'm using Stuffit Deluxe), click on "Join", and select the first segment.
Stuffit is a Mac program, I hope Winzip can handle this too. I've used Stuffit to upload the trailer in two parts. Now I can do it a hell of a lot better, in widescreen. I attempted to restore the film six years ago, using VHS type technology. Those who have never heard of this film, maybe you'll discover it in my cut. I consider it a public service to restore Richard Williams' original vision, on which he spent 30 years. It was recut to death by Disney in an effort to destroy it, and is not well known even today. The film has never been seen the way it was intended to be seen. I'd like to thank Baby Hum, Chris Sobeniak, Stanch and Eddie Bowers for their help in procuring the necessary materials.
I've finished a rough cut of the movie on DVD, but I'm waiting for some even rarer cuts of the movie to come in - works in progress of Fred Calvert's version which haven't been seen.
It wil be available for free at eventually. I'd like to announce that my current DVD project is a restoration of the rarely-seen animated classic The Thief and the Cobbler, created by Richard Williams, who animated Who Framed Roger Rabbit.