2d animation is still very much alive, just not for animated feature films unfortunately. And they almost never have this much attention to detail and physics involved in such an artistic and beautiful manner.
Spider Verse was 3D, but it was stylized, and they treated the method similarly to how we animate 2D (like inconsistent frame rates). I think what's really wanted is to have unique animation with good design appeal. Where the style of movement tells the story and character well. Animation has the advantage of very precise emotion (if the animator is skilled enough) that is easily read, while live action can get a little muddy. An example is trying to have animals emote, animation can do this very clearly, while generally real animals can't change their face very much, relying mainly on body movement.
JediGuyKaleb biggest talent that most animators don’t have, including me: being able to move angles like he does. in nearly all his animations youll see he’s always moving angles around the body, and he’s doing that in this scene. its absolutely gorgeous!
I think the original look was supposed to be a nod to The 10 Commandments film which is said to be one of the major inspirations and influences for The Princr of Egypt
All animations are hand drawn, some are done in paper and others in computer. Now, if you meant the difference in 2d and 3d animation. then yeah, 2d animation is beautiful but extremely hard to make that is why now a days 3d is more common since its easier.
@@FMAiscool let's not discredit all the other wonderful people who worked on this film. James Baxter is an animation legend, and always will be, but there were plenty of other talented workers who helped make this film possible.
i can definitely see the differences in design for some of the characters, huy and hotep were designed more animal-like, and jethro had a more disney-like design
True. Hotep looks like a monkey, but in the final version, he looks like a frog to me. The old character design for Seti looks like the one in the 50s Ten Commandments movie. Plus I like the animation for the dancer. I’m not sure if that was supposed to be Tzipporah or someone else.
@@myownself25 I can see why they changed that design too. I kind of cringed a little at the monkey design because "monkey" has been used before as racist terminology for African Americans, and here they designed two different Egyptian characters with a monkey design. And I don't know of that was intentional or not, because that character design luckily was thrown away I guess
I knew from the start that it was 2D drawn bur for me the characters always looked so three dimensional when they moved around. Like every line fitted. As if they are rendered, how else can they rotate without a flaw of consistency. never saw a 2D so fluent before.
A common principle in animation is one where the animator studies so well, they master it to the point of drawing full figures, as in, the illusion of a 3-dimensional image. Animator's goal is that illusion of motion, and as Williams puts it in his book "The Animator's Survival Kit," he says that these characters have weight, muscle, whatever it be, to apply real-world physics in the animation
Oh, you know.Just many decade's worth of experience and expertise that allows me the privilege to have my current job. No biggies. No complete and utter awe and respect.
I wish Esmeralda's dance from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame was this beautiful. I'm kinda dissatisfied with the way her dancing is animated. Like they didn't make it have any kind of smooth flow to it but still tried to force sensuality. This animation is much more natural and beautiful.
The animation is so beautiful, no wonder this was my favorite movie. It is so smooth and all done by hand! Our generation has so much at our finger tips yet this is skill that shows with time and effort
The only bible story movie that didn't feel forced or like it wanted to persuade you. Pure story telling with jaw dropping animation. *edit* glad so many people feel the same! All love!
This! It's the one biblically inspired movie that I still can watch and absolutely love (since it's a total animated masterpiece, frankly) without feeling like it's condescending and manipulative as fuck from my atheist POV. It's just telling the story from the ancient book, nothing more. Man, I wish they'd done something like this from tales off of other similar literature. I would LOVE a movie covering parts of the Bhagavad Vita.
even when i was a believer it didn't feel like it had an agenda. it read more like a story about brotherhood than anything to be honest. i was even thinking that it didn't have enough biblical feel to it. and then there's "God's not Dead" and as if that shitshow wasn't enough, there is a sequel.
Back in those days when children's movies were not only beautiful pieces of artworks, but had real content which left even the grown-ups speechless. I miss those days.
CGI isn’t bad itself it has been used beautifully in many movies it’s only when companies use it and overwork underpaid employees that it comes out awful. And unfortunately many people don’t want to become artists anymore because the pay just isn’t enough now especially now that pirating can reduce revenue further. There are still many beautiful animators out there but they need full support from all the people that want them back
2:10, I love this interaction between Moses and the priest (Hotep or Hoy?) as he admits that his miracles are mere parlor tricks but they still have value in the everymans life and can even impart wisdom and hope for them. To quote Dracula, "The same could be said of all religions".
Ah, but I would imagine that the point being made is that Moses' signs are actually real. He isn't making them up, he just obeys God who does the actual miracles.
I honestly think it will make some form of a comeback, I feel like the reason why they're making everything CGI these days is because they can, and because gen xers are ruling the media industry at this point. Many of them have watched most of the process of CGI development, boomers really have, but gen xers saw a good amount of it, and that's why they sit around complaining about the bad graphics of Roblox and other games popular amongst generation alpha, because they have anticipated ever since their childhood graphics getting better and better. Were born right in the middle of it, between millennial and gen alpha, but especially Jen alpha, appreciates the content more than how high definition the CGI is. It's because this isn't any big deal to them, they haven't watched it evolve quite as much as their 50 year old predecessors. This is kind of a good thing, because they see it more for the content, and growing up in a time where anything could look like anything, they might actually decide that they prefer what older people would call lower grade, but to them, it just looks like a different style. as exciting as it may be for older generations to see CGI become more and more realistic, this is no new thing for younger people, and that's why they may desire something little more low tech. So, that being said, I do think so called lower grade animation is going to go back into style, and I feel like we've already seen some of that make a comeback, as there have been more and more video games coming out that have more of an 80s to early 2000s feel, between the CGI in Roblox, to the 8-Bit visuals of megalovania, if that's what it's called.
This is a level of genius I aspire too. They not only had to know how to draw anatomically correct in all 3D forms but also how to make the character act, and act well, not stiff. It’s so incredibly brilliant
I'm not Christian, but I love this movie. It doesn't feel like it's telling you "you must believe in God or your a sinner" or something like that, it's just a lovely film with lovely animation and a good way of telling the story.
As a Christian, I strongly agree! My mom always said to never force our religion upon others and should respect what everyone else believes! The movie is stunning. I believe they did wonderful in the storytelling and animation :D
@@glo5643 Indeed. I'm so glad we could have a religious movie that doesn't ostracize people who think differently, and to top it off it's a masterpiece regardless of the source material! One of my favorite animated and written works.
I hope that way you can feel more intrigued to get closer to God. Many stories like in this movie are in the Bible. Man, oh man i wish more movies like Moses could be made today. (And honestly, yes, it’s the best Christian movie that sticks to the Bible and doesn’t feel forced or tries to force people to believe, it’s just telling you a story, so yeah, I completely agree with you)
I love both Joseph king of dreams and the Prince of Egypt and I wish for more hand drawn animated movies based on the bible from DreamWorks so I made this petition of it so please sign, comment, share, and support my petition of it. www.change.org/p/dreamworks-tell-dreamworks-to-make-more-hand-drawn-animated-movies-based-on-the-bible/dashboard
The scenes with Moses stretching out his hand into the fire! It's so crazy because I can hear the music playing in my head from this scene in the movie. That's the kind of impact great artwork can have. Animation is truly magical!
yeah, the score for the movie is also phenomenal and soo memorable- coupled with astounding animation (and possibly video effects) and you have yourself a more than worthwhile feature film. Hats off to everyone who played a role in making this.
I’ve been taking 2d animation classes for 2 years. I have to say that clean up / inking and coloring kills a lot of the pure dynamism that comes out from these (exquisitely done) pencil test. The same happened in beauty an the beast. Oh god if only they’d released the full movie like that..😻
it's why i find disney's xerox era to be fascinating ngl. i've always wondered how you could pull off that rough kind of linework while still coloring everything in digitally.
This is really impressive, of course the finished animation was beautiful, but seeing all the sketches, they look so hand drawn and it’s very very impressive, each frame is amazing
@@namedrop721 I know, I don’t remember making this comment but I think my point was that in the final animation, it looks very smooth and alive, you can’t really tell it’s hand drawn, but in the pencil test, it’s easier to appreciate the skill put into each frame, if you know what I mean
OMG THEY LITERALLY USED THAT SCENE FROM THE THREE AMIGOS AT 2:37 AND COMBINED IT WITH SOMETHING ELSE TO CREATE DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO CHARACTERS SO MUCH RESPECT FOR THESE ARTISTS
I miss old quality of 2D animated films like this. It makes me happy to see such fine and hard work put into light again. The old way of animating was gorgeous when it was done right. James Baxtor is a man of talent who took part in the process of the Prince of Egypt and his work is phenomenal!
I mean no disrespect to animators who work with newer technologies but there will always be something so special and incredibly impressive about hand-drawn 2D animation. It’s such a shame that animation as a whole is treated like some kind of silly thing only kids care about and isn’t properly recognized as a form of art.
Yes it is a master and to let you know that I love both Joseph king of dreams and the Prince of Egypt and I wish for more hand drawn animated movies based on the bible from DreamWorks so I made this petition of it so please sign, comment, share, and support my petition of it. www.change.org/p/dreamworks-tell-dreamworks-to-make-more-hand-drawn-animated-movies-based-on-the-bible/dashboard
I could not get over that girl dancing the animation take on her is so fluid and natural from the cohesive frames to her body work it’s just so well done. It’s a quite darn shame that studios now a days don’t use this technique anymore to complete movies.This and Spirit will always hold a great secret place in my heart and will help me to inspire me to do something meaningful
The animation is so beautiful. Every little breath and minor not or flowing piece of hair just impresses me so much. They work so hard to create these animations.
Wow ! This brings back memories ! I worked on POE as an artist in consumer products and worked with the animators and final line artists . The quality of this film was unmatched !
These particular animators who also made spirit and el dorado had such a way with expression and simple movements. Its like they follow a certain rhythm as the characters express themselves. It’s my absolute favorite.
As an artist there's something so satisfying about watching a figure through each carefully drawn frame, as though given a life of its own. I loved this movie as a kid, and it still holds a special place in my heart.
It’s so amazing watching these pencil tests. I miss these sort of things nowadays. It’s sad moving art like this isn’t around much anymore. This is beautiful.
The scene everyone is talking about at 3:07. So full of believable sentience that when Moses looks around him for the Creator, you believe it - in more ways than one
It’s so magical being able to see all the little marks and ripple of the paper, a reminder that humans made each and every frame of this. I love 3d animation too but I really wish the bigger studios in the west would do 2d again also. I also feel a sketchier style like this could work really well to remind people of the human element.
I'm glad you uploaded this, because it's sequences like these that help people realize how insanely dedicated animation really is. I'm not an animator myself, but once I realized the amount of work that went into childhood classics like the the prince of egypt or the disney movies, I've always been blown away seeing these "behind the scenes".
traditional animation deserves so much more attention and appreciation, at least today’s media. it’s personally one of the most beautiful visual (?) arts to me :)
It’s real shame hand drawn animated movies on this scale from the late 90s and early 2000s are no longer produced. I would kill for a giant animation studio doing a hand drawn animated masterpiece with current technology
I absolutely love watching the progress and steps animators took just to make at least one scene. It's amazing what you can do with a paper and pencil :)
Gosh I love this movie and seeing the these tests just makes me appreciate the people behind it even more! Also the different styles, and the plot points that went unused are so neat to see!
I long for animations like this again. I mean, I do like the good 3D animations from Disney, but man...these types of drawn 2D animation has so much passion as well. I'm sad we never see this on the big screen anymore... as if 3D is a necessity to be 'impactful' nowadays.
There is so much talent in here. The way acting feels natural and as if you can read their minds. How even the very stylized characters maintain this ultra defined structure and proportion as they move around, where the same shapes make sense in the different prospectives and angles. The fluidity and wieght to their movements. Then you stand back and remember that this is all lines on a paper. It is just so much talent in there.
The draftsmanship is incredible--that is what's wrong with my 2D animations--the characters I draw seem to morph around like blobs every frame. This looks like 3D, the character proportions are so consistent!
Invest in tracing paper. Draw out your character, then lay a sheet of tracing paper over it. Trace the character, shifting things just a tiny bit. Next sheet of tracing paper over the first, and repeat. Continue. That's basically what they were doing here. :)
I like how some of the Cut scenes feel more like someone animated a podcast/interview with how rough the voices sound. Can I say, we need the Rambo Moses Cut.
This is absolutely beautiful, seamless animation. I don't say this in an attempt to sound controversial, but I feel that Dreamworks' 2D animation was surpassing Disney's 2D animation at the time.
good hand drawn animation doesn't age and it's good, no matter if it's 1930's or or 2000's, but there was something extremely beautiful in the late 90's-early 00's 2d animation
@@yanstein8464 even the DVD film "king of dreams" was amazing, the body lanague especially. Benjamin is designed to look like his elder brother Joseph but is clearly much more shy, reserved and maybe even a little awkward than Joseph was at that age and you get it all from the maybe 2 seconds he's on screen.
While else thinks 2d animation should come back?
Me!
2d animated movies? I was just asking because cartoons are 2d.
2d animation is still very much alive, just not for animated feature films unfortunately. And they almost never have this much attention to detail and physics involved in such an artistic and beautiful manner.
wait isn’t spiderman into the spider-verse that
Spider Verse was 3D, but it was stylized, and they treated the method similarly to how we animate 2D (like inconsistent frame rates).
I think what's really wanted is to have unique animation with good design appeal. Where the style of movement tells the story and character well.
Animation has the advantage of very precise emotion (if the animator is skilled enough) that is easily read, while live action can get a little muddy. An example is trying to have animals emote, animation can do this very clearly, while generally real animals can't change their face very much, relying mainly on body movement.
3:07-3:53 I know James Baxter was heavily involved with this scene especially (I'm pretty sure those are his sketches), and it SHOWS.
He also sketched the scene at 0:53
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It's like James doesn't do much outside of "This song needs a spin dance, BAXTER! THATS YOUR JOB!"
JediGuyKaleb biggest talent that most animators don’t have, including me: being able to move angles like he does. in nearly all his animations youll see he’s always moving angles around the body, and he’s doing that in this scene. its absolutely gorgeous!
@@moved4028 What do you mean by moving angles?
Animation should make a comeback. Please Disney animate again. No one cares how realistic you can make a lion
Say it louder for the people in the back👏🏽
I agree but this is DreamWorks babe
Soarix Channel don’t call me babe
@@Xxsorafan But this is still Dreamworks uh....bro?
Its not a real lion so it's still animating correct? Just in a different form.
I lovr the change to Moses. He looked like a diva before and the final version looks more unassuming.
Unassuming?
Sparkling Glitter Lucky I think he means that he looks more like an every day guy as opposed to his first look
Moses: the fabulous prophet
I think the original look was supposed to be a nod to The 10 Commandments film which is said to be one of the major inspirations and influences for The Princr of Egypt
Good thing too. We dun want fan fiction about a story about a part of the Bible
Dude the tests of Moses toward the end have my jaw on the floor
That's because James Baxter
Literally shooked
@@fink4searchive328 I knew someone was going to mention him. XD
Like how did they even manage to animate camera movement in 2d when he sticks his hand into the fire 😱
Study of movement, weight, anatomy, and how things look from angles. Baxter's obviously mastered it a long, long time ago.
This here should be enough to show the beauty of hand drawn animation.
All animations are hand drawn, some are done in paper and others in computer.
Now, if you meant the difference in 2d and 3d animation. then yeah, 2d animation is beautiful but extremely hard to make that is why now a days 3d is more common since its easier.
@@akemibarrera1961 I'm referring to 2d animation
The beauty? You mean James Baxter?
@@FMAiscool let's not discredit all the other wonderful people who worked on this film. James Baxter is an animation legend, and always will be, but there were plenty of other talented workers who helped make this film possible.
Pokey Oat true true
i can definitely see the differences in design for some of the characters, huy and hotep were designed more animal-like, and jethro had a more disney-like design
True. Hotep looks like a monkey, but in the final version, he looks like a frog to me. The old character design for Seti looks like the one in the 50s Ten Commandments movie. Plus I like the animation for the dancer. I’m not sure if that was supposed to be Tzipporah or someone else.
@@latrolettteeeeeee I think that it's the first version or Zippora
I was thinking the same thing:
“Dang, the high priests could’ve looked like a strait-up *vulture* and *orangutang!..*
@@myownself25 I can see why they changed that design too. I kind of cringed a little at the monkey design because "monkey" has been used before as racist terminology for African Americans, and here they designed two different Egyptian characters with a monkey design. And I don't know of that was intentional or not, because that character design luckily was thrown away I guess
@@latrolettteeeeeee I dunno why, but I keep laughing at your comment. Idk why it's so funny.
I knew from the start that it was 2D drawn bur for me the characters always looked so three dimensional when they moved around. Like every line fitted. As if they are rendered, how else can they rotate without a flaw of consistency. never saw a 2D so fluent before.
A common principle in animation is one where the animator studies so well, they master it to the point of drawing full figures, as in, the illusion of a 3-dimensional image. Animator's goal is that illusion of motion, and as Williams puts it in his book "The Animator's Survival Kit," he says that these characters have weight, muscle, whatever it be, to apply real-world physics in the animation
3:40
Rotoscoping
@@fived9424 No rotoscoping at all.
@@fived9424 nope! Just the legend James Baxter :)
Oh, you know.Just many decade's worth of experience and expertise that allows me the privilege to have my current job. No biggies. No complete and utter awe and respect.
How does this have only 2 likes omg 😭😭😭😭😭
what r u sayin
no i don't know
2:48 I just keep rewatching and rewatching this animation test, it's so beautiful and so fluidly animated
The fact that this wasn't in the film makes this like a little extra gift from the animators 😁
I wish Esmeralda's dance from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame was this beautiful. I'm kinda dissatisfied with the way her dancing is animated. Like they didn't make it have any kind of smooth flow to it but still tried to force sensuality. This animation is much more natural and beautiful.
More than 300+ frames
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That's James Baxter for ya
When you get too carried away with flip books that you make an entire classic movie for generations to come.
Instructions unclear: Made a masterpiece.
The early design of Moses is unbelievable compare to the final. I assume it's to draw quickly with few less details
-SKY- of Wonderland he looked a lot like the Ten Commandments Moses. I’m glad that they made their Moses more like an every-man
@@jakemetzgar Watched the Nostalgia Critic vid, huh?
As an aspiring animator and a huge fan of Prince of Egypt, I’m so glad this got recommended to me. I’m so blown away by these hand-drawn animations.
I know right, i want to be an animator someday also and seeing these things is just so inspiring to look at
This is the content Im trying to fill up my recommendations with 😂
Same thing, I'd love to become an animator one day and this looks perfect to my eyes. I don't see any flaws
@@hamburgerhelper2810 I hope to be a 2d animator someday too!
When the 2d is so good it almost looks cgi
HONESTLY it's just that good!
That's why I love it
You mean 3 dimensional... lol
@@GameDevAraz stfu
And we have yet to see cgi which is so good it looks 2d
You can definitely tell when it was James Baxter animating
0:52 That one literally made me tear up. There's just so much heart in these animations. What a beautiful thing.
The animation is so beautiful, no wonder this was my favorite movie. It is so smooth and all done by hand! Our generation has so much at our finger tips yet this is skill that shows with time and effort
The only bible story movie that didn't feel forced or like it wanted to persuade you. Pure story telling with jaw dropping animation.
*edit* glad so many people feel the same! All love!
This! It's the one biblically inspired movie that I still can watch and absolutely love (since it's a total animated masterpiece, frankly) without feeling like it's condescending and manipulative as fuck from my atheist POV. It's just telling the story from the ancient book, nothing more.
Man, I wish they'd done something like this from tales off of other similar literature. I would LOVE a movie covering parts of the Bhagavad Vita.
even when i was a believer it didn't feel like it had an agenda. it read more like a story about brotherhood than anything to be honest. i was even thinking that it didn't have enough biblical feel to it.
and then there's "God's not Dead" and as if that shitshow wasn't enough, there is a sequel.
@@caramel7050 I agree.I also think, though not entirely biblical or animated, the movie Ben-Hur also tells a story without getting too preachy.
You are so right bee
Yeah this perfect for other religions and atheists since it not shoving it in your face to join
Back in those days when children's movies were not only beautiful pieces of artworks, but had real content which left even the grown-ups speechless. I miss those days.
3D: CAN WE EVER BE BEATEN? IS THERE ANYTHING THAT CAN STOP US?
2D revamped: Hold my beer
When i watch these pencil tests I'm reminded that animators like this are basically wizards the way they turn lines into life.
Somehow I find more "life" in these 2d animations.... rather than "photo realistic CG"
The animation at the end where Seti points his rod, I’m always amazed at how they drew it so it looked like there was a moving camera.
I wish I could animate like this omg.
just gotta be patient
gotta work hard and smart.. We're on our way.
Hand drawn animation is art.
Beautiful art like this needs to make a comeback. Tired of of seeing everything in cgi.
U can say that again.
CGI isn’t bad itself it has been used beautifully in many movies it’s only when companies use it and overwork underpaid employees that it comes out awful. And unfortunately many people don’t want to become artists anymore because the pay just isn’t enough now especially now that pirating can reduce revenue further. There are still many beautiful animators out there but they need full support from all the people that want them back
2:10, I love this interaction between Moses and the priest (Hotep or Hoy?) as he admits that his miracles are mere parlor tricks but they still have value in the everymans life and can even impart wisdom and hope for them. To quote Dracula, "The same could be said of all religions".
Ah, but I would imagine that the point being made is that Moses' signs are actually real. He isn't making them up, he just obeys God who does the actual miracles.
Emma Grace Exactly!
Jeffrey Weber and in the Bible the can actually do magic
"Your words are as empty _empty_ as your soul _soul_ *soul*
@@adriannaranjo4397 It was not by MY hand HaNd, that I was given FLESH FlEsH *flesh* -
I wish this gorgeous animation could come back someday.
Me too.
I honestly think it will make some form of a comeback, I feel like the reason why they're making everything CGI these days is because they can, and because gen xers are ruling the media industry at this point. Many of them have watched most of the process of CGI development, boomers really have, but gen xers saw a good amount of it, and that's why they sit around complaining about the bad graphics of Roblox and other games popular amongst generation alpha, because they have anticipated ever since their childhood graphics getting better and better. Were born right in the middle of it, between millennial and gen alpha, but especially Jen alpha, appreciates the content more than how high definition the CGI is. It's because this isn't any big deal to them, they haven't watched it evolve quite as much as their 50 year old predecessors. This is kind of a good thing, because they see it more for the content, and growing up in a time where anything could look like anything, they might actually decide that they prefer what older people would call lower grade, but to them, it just looks like a different style. as exciting as it may be for older generations to see CGI become more and more realistic, this is no new thing for younger people, and that's why they may desire something little more low tech. So, that being said, I do think so called lower grade animation is going to go back into style, and I feel like we've already seen some of that make a comeback, as there have been more and more video games coming out that have more of an 80s to early 2000s feel, between the CGI in Roblox, to the 8-Bit visuals of megalovania, if that's what it's called.
1:52 the mad man just summoned a chess table
This is a level of genius I aspire too. They not only had to know how to draw anatomically correct in all 3D forms but also how to make the character act, and act well, not stiff. It’s so incredibly brilliant
I'm not Christian, but I love this movie. It doesn't feel like it's telling you "you must believe in God or your a sinner" or something like that, it's just a lovely film with lovely animation and a good way of telling the story.
As a Christian, I strongly agree! My mom always said to never force our religion upon others and should respect what everyone else believes! The movie is stunning. I believe they did wonderful in the storytelling and animation :D
@@glo5643 Indeed. I'm so glad we could have a religious movie that doesn't ostracize people who think differently, and to top it off it's a masterpiece regardless of the source material! One of my favorite animated and written works.
Pokey Oat same here! I hope later on in the future we could have more religious movies like ‘The prince of Egypt’
@you tube yo mama
I hope that way you can feel more intrigued to get closer to God. Many stories like in this movie are in the Bible. Man, oh man i wish more movies like Moses could be made today. (And honestly, yes, it’s the best Christian movie that sticks to the Bible and doesn’t feel forced or tries to force people to believe, it’s just telling you a story, so yeah, I completely agree with you)
R.I.P 2D animation. You were the best and we regret you
Actually the news said that Disney is bring back hand drawn animation
I love both Joseph king of dreams and the Prince of Egypt and I wish for more hand drawn animated movies based on the bible from DreamWorks so I made this petition of it so please sign, comment, share, and support my petition of it.
www.change.org/p/dreamworks-tell-dreamworks-to-make-more-hand-drawn-animated-movies-based-on-the-bible/dashboard
The scenes with Moses stretching out his hand into the fire! It's so crazy because I can hear the music playing in my head from this scene in the movie. That's the kind of impact great artwork can have. Animation is truly magical!
yeah, the score for the movie is also phenomenal and soo memorable- coupled with astounding animation (and possibly video effects) and you have yourself a more than worthwhile feature film. Hats off to everyone who played a role in making this.
James baxter animated that one!
@@SwizzleDrizzl yep! James is a legend.
0:11
This version of Moses looks like he crawled out of a Mad Max/Waterworld movie. :v
Was inspired from the 10 commandments Moses
But they changed it later to an everyday-man" look
I know, I read that somewhere, but it still amuses me. 🤣🤣🤣
I think he kinda looks like Sinbad.
I’ve been taking 2d animation classes for 2 years. I have to say that clean up / inking and coloring kills a lot of the pure dynamism that comes out from these (exquisitely done) pencil test. The same happened in beauty an the beast. Oh god if only they’d released the full movie like that..😻
Yeah I thought exactly the same with Tarzan (1999) and lion king (1994) pencil test animations.
it's why i find disney's xerox era to be fascinating ngl. i've always wondered how you could pull off that rough kind of linework while still coloring everything in digitally.
This was a forgotten masterpiece. Why can’t people appreciate the beauty and hard work these animators put in their 2D films?
Such precise and accurate anatomies. The consistent proportions blow me away.
Mose's voice is so calming.
Ya.
This is really impressive, of course the finished animation was beautiful, but seeing all the sketches, they look so hand drawn and it’s very very impressive, each frame is amazing
They are hand drawn 😂
@@namedrop721 I know, I don’t remember making this comment but I think my point was that in the final animation, it looks very smooth and alive, you can’t really tell it’s hand drawn, but in the pencil test, it’s easier to appreciate the skill put into each frame, if you know what I mean
0:52 Me telling my girlfriend about the time I caught a Blastoise in Pokémon GO.
this is the work of someone who has spend decades honing their craft.
*now this...
this is beautiful*
Persephone ^^
iiGothic Pinkii Yess hehe
@@lalibird2312 Nice
OMG THEY LITERALLY USED THAT SCENE FROM THE THREE AMIGOS AT 2:37 AND COMBINED IT WITH SOMETHING ELSE TO CREATE DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO CHARACTERS
SO MUCH RESPECT FOR THESE ARTISTS
2:49 - 2:59
An absolutely exquisite ten seconds of rotoscope animation.
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We're all atheist in my family but we all love this movie, it's so amazing in so many ways. Forever one of my favourite animation movies.
I miss old quality of 2D animated films like this. It makes me happy to see such fine and hard work put into light again. The old way of animating was gorgeous when it was done right. James Baxtor is a man of talent who took part in the process of the Prince of Egypt and his work is phenomenal!
Love how people ask Disney for 2D animation when this is a DreamWorks movie.
Should be said I agree 2D needs a come back.
I mean no disrespect to animators who work with newer technologies but there will always be something so special and incredibly impressive about hand-drawn 2D animation. It’s such a shame that animation as a whole is treated like some kind of silly thing only kids care about and isn’t properly recognized as a form of art.
This is my favorite movie of all time, I’ve watched it so many times. It’s a masterpiece!
Yes it is a master and to let you know that I love both Joseph king of dreams and the Prince of Egypt and I wish for more hand drawn animated movies based on the bible from DreamWorks so I made this petition of it so please sign, comment, share, and support my petition of it.
www.change.org/p/dreamworks-tell-dreamworks-to-make-more-hand-drawn-animated-movies-based-on-the-bible/dashboard
I want traditional animation again
We all do.
I could not get over that girl dancing the animation take on her is so fluid and natural from the cohesive frames to her body work it’s just so well done. It’s a quite darn shame that studios now a days don’t use this technique anymore to complete movies.This and Spirit will always hold a great secret place in my heart and will help me to inspire me to do something meaningful
The animation is so beautiful. Every little breath and minor not or flowing piece of hair just impresses me so much. They work so hard to create these animations.
3:14 that camera movement is so smooth HOLY CRAP that's incredible
I think it's James Baxter.
Wow ! This brings back memories ! I worked on POE as an artist in consumer products and worked with the animators and final line artists . The quality of this film was unmatched !
It’s so cool watching the numbers in the corner of all the frames they had to individually draw flip by-real hand drawn animation took HEART
This movie does not get enough credit! It was such a masterpiece
These particular animators who also made spirit and el dorado had such a way with expression and simple movements. Its like they follow a certain rhythm as the characters express themselves. It’s my absolute favorite.
As an artist there's something so satisfying about watching a figure through each carefully drawn frame, as though given a life of its own. I loved this movie as a kid, and it still holds a special place in my heart.
It's almost scary how SMOOOOTH that animation is
0:47 looks sooo smooth, it looks like an actual 3D render, the proportions are immaculate, this is really a work of a professional.
It’s so amazing watching these pencil tests. I miss these sort of things nowadays.
It’s sad moving art like this isn’t around much anymore. This is beautiful.
The scene everyone is talking about at 3:07. So full of believable sentience that when Moses looks around him for the Creator, you believe it - in more ways than one
It’s so magical being able to see all the little marks and ripple of the paper, a reminder that humans made each and every frame of this. I love 3d animation too but I really wish the bigger studios in the west would do 2d again also. I also feel a sketchier style like this could work really well to remind people of the human element.
It’s so hard to believe someone actually drew this by hand, it’s so incredibly flawless and natural
This movie is my favorite movie of all time. It’s made with such passion and love and the music is impeccable
3:30 I prefer rough animation on paper with pencil, & not clean-up animation on paper with pencil.
I'm glad you uploaded this, because it's sequences like these that help people realize how insanely dedicated animation really is.
I'm not an animator myself, but once I realized the amount of work that went into childhood classics like the the prince of egypt or the disney movies, I've always been blown away seeing these "behind the scenes".
traditional animation deserves so much more attention and appreciation, at least today’s media. it’s personally one of the most beautiful visual (?) arts to me :)
AI is already taking over animation.
It’s real shame hand drawn animated movies on this scale from the late 90s and early 2000s are no longer produced. I would kill for a giant animation studio doing a hand drawn animated masterpiece with current technology
Still one of my absolute favorite DreamWorks animated films!
I absolutely love watching the progress and steps animators took just to make at least one scene. It's amazing what you can do with a paper and pencil :)
Gosh I love this movie and seeing the these tests just makes me appreciate the people behind it even more! Also the different styles, and the plot points that went unused are so neat to see!
I think it was the best animation based on religion. The story telling was wholesome.
I long for animations like this again. I mean, I do like the good 3D animations from Disney, but man...these types of drawn 2D animation has so much passion as well. I'm sad we never see this on the big screen anymore... as if 3D is a necessity to be 'impactful' nowadays.
the volume of the characters are so consistent and smooth its like a moving sculpture
There is so much talent in here. The way acting feels natural and as if you can read their minds. How even the very stylized characters maintain this ultra defined structure and proportion as they move around, where the same shapes make sense in the different prospectives and angles. The fluidity and wieght to their movements. Then you stand back and remember that this is all lines on a paper. It is just so much talent in there.
“You’re in a lot of trouble, mister!”
Hahaha that’s Steve Martin but that’s definitely an audio clip from “Three Amigos.” I love it. 2:43
Honestly this one 2D animated movie from DreamWorks is a 1000 times better then anything Disney has put out in the past decade....
Except for Princess and the Frog and Winnie the Pooh. At least Disney went out with a bang for their last hand-drawn movies for now.
@@retrolord8546 “past decade”
the fluidity of the perspective shift and foreshortening in the scene that shifts to focus on moses' hand is so beautiful.
Dude these are such an awesome relic of 2d animation. It must feel so cool to have all of these old sketches in your hands.
The draftsmanship is incredible--that is what's wrong with my 2D animations--the characters I draw seem to morph around like blobs every frame. This looks like 3D, the character proportions are so consistent!
Invest in tracing paper. Draw out your character, then lay a sheet of tracing paper over it. Trace the character, shifting things just a tiny bit. Next sheet of tracing paper over the first, and repeat. Continue. That's basically what they were doing here. :)
The first movie I ever saw Val Kilmer in was The Prince of Egypt. My favorite childhood movie and my first bible story. Thanks DreamWorks.
This makes me want to watch this movie again. The feel of the animation and soundtrack are always so pleasing.
I love how fluid the animation of this movie is
Awww kid Miriam is so adorable 🥰
I love that lady... or this depiction of her anyway ☺️
1:26
I was searching for something like this for a while and I had not found anything until now. Thank you :D
I like how some of the Cut scenes feel more like someone animated a podcast/interview with how rough the voices sound.
Can I say, we need the Rambo Moses Cut.
Absolutely STUNNING!! and to think these are hand made! UGH I literally cant stop watching
This… this is why I am trying to get into 2D animation.
It's honestly dark magic to me how they keep so incredibly on model in these things
The sheer skill and craftsmanship in these is astounding
When the pencil tests look as beautiful as the finished product, you know you have some quality animation on your hands.
Dude I love this movie to death I miss 2D animation and the fluidity and freedom of expression in it
Its still hard for me to get that the those who made the Boss Baby made also The Prince of Egypt.
I miss when movies were hand-drawn like this...It's truly an underrated art form. ❤
What gorgeous character design and animation.I wish they hadn't stopped at Sinbad.
This is absolutely beautiful, seamless animation. I don't say this in an attempt to sound controversial, but I feel that Dreamworks' 2D animation was surpassing Disney's 2D animation at the time.
WOW. I actually thought this was a 3D movie rendered into 2D! This animation is really good!
good hand drawn animation doesn't age and it's good, no matter if it's 1930's or or 2000's, but there was something extremely beautiful in the late 90's-early 00's 2d animation
@@yanstein8464 even the DVD film "king of dreams" was amazing, the body lanague especially. Benjamin is designed to look like his elder brother Joseph but is clearly much more shy, reserved and maybe even a little awkward than Joseph was at that age and you get it all from the maybe 2 seconds he's on screen.
Prince of Egypt is one of the most beautifully animated movies I’ve ever seen.
Animation is fucking magic these are incredible! The level of skill these people possess is obscene