Mat Brunet, thank you for telling Richard's complete life story with The Thief and the Cobbler. If he watched all five parts of this video, he would die happy knowing his story is all told and his life is complete, proud of the legacy an ambitious tale like this will leave behind.
This is one of the sadest tales in the history of Hollywood. I hope Richard is happy right now in heaven and is satisfied for the legacy his passion project and his career have left in film history.
And thus ends another chapter in his Animation Lookback. Unlikely as that is (because of everything that happened before Dick got kicked out of his own project), I still have my hopes that maybe one day, The Thief and The Cobbler could be finished as Richard wanted it to be. But until then we have this lesson to abide by, that it’s never easy to make a great animated movie.
Well, Animat did say he is working on another animated feature and even managed to release the first 6 minutes as a short called Prologue. So in a way he is/did make a comeback of sorts.
Inspiring. Truly Inspiring. This man has shown persistence and faith in his art and over the years, it's paid off. One of the greatest animators in the industry.
GREAT NEWS! Garrett Gilchrist has announced a new version of The Thief and the Cobbler: New animations by young professionals animators, further restoration of the film, titled The Recobbled Cut Mk 4-2 and will be released in 2023! I look forward to seeing the new version!
Your next Animation Lookback should be dedicated to Max and Dave Fleischer (Of Fleischer Studios fame). Who were pioneers during the early days of animation. They are responsible for the popularity of Betty Boop and Popeye and we're once rivals with the Walt Disney Company before Looney Tunes came along. Max is responsible for the first animated adaptation of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and Fleischer Studios was the second American animation studio to create a feature film with Gulliver's Travels.
@@yahnibmartin4376 Cuphead is cool and all, but it's a video game. Yes, the animation is impressive and a huge part of the game, but I don't think it fits the show.
Sadly, Richard Williams died in August of 2019. I was first introduced to the Thief and the Cobbler when I was 5 and we rented it from a local Blockbuster. To me, it was a ripoff of Aladdin (1992), but after reading so much of Williams' project, he was trying to make his dream come true. Now I believe that his passion project will always be remembered, hopefully for the next 100 years.
I legit gasped at the post credit scene, for the 10th anniversary of Animation Lookback and Electric Dragon Productions we are finally getting Walt Disney Animation Studios +!
Chill Player 123 Turns out I was actually wrong, it was in his top 10 moments from AL Disney video. But I think he may have mentioned it in an update video too
After all these years, he finally is about to do Animation Lookback: Walt Disney Animation Studios +. I remember when he first announced it almost a decade ago in 2010.
Yeah me too, i thought he was gonna do a animation lookback on either Nickelodeon or even the weekly Shōnen jump anime adaptations and now he doing a remaking on one of his older videos that his channel back on 2009 know as the updated version of animation lookback on Disney
It’s good to always set limits on yourself so you don’t accidentally have a mess of a production like that movie XD I just started reading The Animator’s Surviavl Kit recently! It was good but I haven’t had time to finish it!!!
15:00 Well well well.. Looks like his next animation lookback is a look on Disney Animation Features he did years ago.. But this time some more information, Films to get the Animation Lookback treatment, Oohh boy, This Lookback is going to be a long on!
Props for your testimony on The Animator's Survival Kit. I have the expanded edition in my possession and I've been using it as my go-to animation textbook ever since I got it as a birthday present. The Thief and the Cobbler inspired me to take up animation as a major in college and as a career. I am REALLY excited that you are finally doing Walt Disney Animation Studios+ after 10 years of putting it off!!!!
I have to say thank the Mighty Pencil that Garrett Gilchrist and his team made the Recobbled Cut. It may have been a while since I've watched it, but it was certainly a delight. Plus, it's nice that Williams is now on good terms with "Thief," in spite of all the trouble he had to go through. Hot Dog! We're finally getting Animation Lookback: WDAS+! Can't believe it's been so long since you've made that announcement.
Well, lets it drop to the floor more likey, but it still cracks me up when it goes "THUMP!" on the floor. Oh, and uh, does the same for his Blu-Rays was well XD
To have all of the machinations of this tale of hair pin turns... turn out to be "bitter sweet".... goes even beyond what Williams could have imagined. "Thief and the Cobbler" is living & will live on. ( Oh.., thanks for the recap, ElectricDragon505 ....)
This reminds me of when a rogue member of Warner Bros Feature Animation leaked a workprint of The Iron Giant, 5 months before its August 6th theatrical release.
There should be a biopic about the 30 years Richard Williams spent slaving away on the movie. It's a very bittersweet ending for sure, but the journey is an amazing story
This is the age of the fan. Amateur animators should set in and volunteer to finish it for him before he dies. All the story boarded scenes and color in the pencil tests. It can all be done on computers much more cheaply than to put pencil to paper and paint brush to acetate. And I'm sure he would not mind that it was all shared and completed digitally as long as he can see that people wanted to help him complete the greatest animated film in history.
Oh yeah! Two parts in one month? I'll take it! Looking forward to seeing this Animat! Keep up of the great work! Wonder what's next for Animation Lookback. Edit: Is it finally happening? Animation Lookback: Disney+?!
Since this will be the 10th anniversary, is there anything we can send to him for that celebration? Maybe some artwork of ours to show that we love him? That would be nice.
The final part of this Animation Lookback, Richard Williams may have his downs during it’s production but The Recobbled Cut has been a great ‘What should have been’ film.. his legacy of animation shall live on, Who Famed Roger Rabbit & The Recobbled Cut are two of my favourite films, With & without Richard Williams!
Dear Animat: I hear that Garret Gilchrist is working on a Mark 5 of the Recobbled Cut of The Thief and the Cobbler. This new version features some revised animated shots that are more consistent to the animation done by Williams. There's already a work in progress version of Mark 5 that you can check out on Internet Archive.
In 2020 the Recobbled cut mark 4 got a brand new italian dub by the youtuber 151eg, and it was released in his channel and in new cinemas in rome and milan with an interview
Don't know If he's still around or not but he truly deserves to make a big comeback In animation someday. If 2D Hand Drawn In Marry Poppins Returns can truly come back and can do the same.
_The Thief and The Cobbler_ , along with Alejandro Jodorowsky's adaptation of _Dune_ , stand together as two examples of the greatest films never made.
I love that it took him a hot minute to agree to talk about this movie again like "I don't wanna talk about it anymore." "But it's so good and we love it." "....Well if you insist." Typical artist.
It is really fashinating to see how he went from being inspired by Disneys first movie to actually be part of the company. And that so many hands were in this movie should not come as a suprise. This is indeed a world scale movie. I do love The Recobbled Cut Mark 4 but it whould be amazing if eventually teams of animators managed to get foundings to finish it up but it is much to wish for. Imagine how much the cost for this movie is on now.
Speaking of beautiful movies that can never be, have you considered on doing a documentary on "Kingdom of the Sun"? As of now, "The Sweatbox" is still on TH-cam.
glad Animat did forgot to mention how Atlantis the Lost Empire (2001) didn't go too well at the box office as he mentions how the early 2000s weren't going well for the Disney Studios!
Before watching this video, I’m guessing the next AL will be Blue Sky Studios. EDIT: Oooo interesting! I think a good pattern would be to do a remake of an old animation Lookback (Disney,DreamWorks,Pixar) and then do a new one, then another remake, then a new one, and so on. The Disney and DreamWorks ones aren’t very detailed, and although the Pixar one is a lot better and has a lot more facts, there has been so much that happened since then and it would be interesting to see an update.
Diego Raf Diaz's List: The Top Ten Richard Williams Animation Projects 1. The Thief and the Cobbler (Actual Movie) 2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit 3. A Christmas Carol 4. Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure 5. The Pink Panther Opening Titles 6. The Little Island 7. The Arabian Knight 8. The Animator's Survival Kit 9. That Book About Mulla Nasrudin 10. The Princess and the Cobbler Sheesh, this was a hard list to make!
Unfortunately Because Richard Williams Died Last August.. 😔 RIP Could There Still be A Possibility For The Academy to Finish The Movie For Him?? Is There any Director Notes or something that Was Classified??
Anthony Pedroza Williams didn't work on storyboards until 25+ years into making the Thief and the Cobbler and was generally a terribly disorganized production. Do you seriously believe he would actually have notes on a movie he was expecting not to complete in his lifetime? Richard Williams is not a "story" guy, he spent most of Thief and the Cobbler's production animated cool and complex motions and scenes over having a coherent plot.
Next Animation Lookback ladies and gentlemen, Animation Lookback: Walt Disney Animation Studios - 10th Anniversary Edition. Complete with the production history of the rest of their films from “Tangled” to “Frozen II”. Like if you’re excited for it.
RIP Richard Williams
One of the all time greats of animation history.
If he would have finished it, he would have finished it sooner!
Here here
RIP Richard Williams... gone but never forgotten with the greatest film that never was.
10:43 "So, If He Would Pass Away Right Now, At Least There Is Something That Came Out Of His Project" - Animat
Yeah, That's Sad, But Now, It's True :(
Ouch 😭
Oh, the irony
Ben Johns too soon.
It was august 2019 when that prediction came true 😞😞😞
Mat Brunet, thank you for telling Richard's complete life story with The Thief and the Cobbler. If he watched all five parts of this video, he would die happy knowing his story is all told and his life is complete, proud of the legacy an ambitious tale like this will leave behind.
This is one of the sadest tales in the history of Hollywood.
I hope Richard is happy right now in heaven and is satisfied for the legacy his passion project and his career have left in film history.
And thus ends another chapter in his Animation Lookback. Unlikely as that is (because of everything that happened before Dick got kicked out of his own project), I still have my hopes that maybe one day, The Thief and The Cobbler could be finished as Richard wanted it to be. But until then we have this lesson to abide by, that it’s never easy to make a great animated movie.
Poor Richard Williams, he should make a comeback someday
After the credits it time for animation lookbacks Walt Disney animation studios plus for the
Electric dragon 505 production
10th year anniversary
i feels he is like don bluth he is to old to be doing animated movies and retired for a reason.
Well, Animat did say he is working on another animated feature and even managed to release the first 6 minutes as a short called Prologue. So in a way he is/did make a comeback of sorts.
Sadly that's not possible now...
Dean Vais He did with Prologue
Inspiring. Truly Inspiring. This man has shown persistence and faith in his art and over the years, it's paid off. One of the greatest animators in the industry.
I've never actually watched The Thief and the Cobbler, but it's been fun to learn about it through this series.
You should give it a watch.
You should watch The Thief and the Cobbler.
Ditto
GREAT NEWS!
Garrett Gilchrist has announced a new version of The Thief and the Cobbler: New animations by young professionals animators, further restoration of the film, titled The Recobbled Cut Mk 4-2 and will be released in 2023! I look forward to seeing the new version!
Richard Williams gave up a chance to write the screenplay for Beauty and the Beast but turned it down to continue the Thief and the Cobbler
RIP Richard Williams.
Your next Animation Lookback should be dedicated to Max and Dave Fleischer (Of Fleischer Studios fame). Who were pioneers during the early days of animation. They are responsible for the popularity of Betty Boop and Popeye and we're once rivals with the Walt Disney Company before Looney Tunes came along. Max is responsible for the first animated adaptation of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and Fleischer Studios was the second American animation studio to create a feature film with Gulliver's Travels.
The Fleischer story gets sad toward the end.
I hear one Fleischer brother died poor.
also talk about cuphead
Nyanpire The Cat He could do The History of Anime.
@@yahnibmartin4376 Cuphead is cool and all, but it's a video game. Yes, the animation is impressive and a huge part of the game, but I don't think it fits the show.
Chill Player 123 he did a history of Studio Ghibli
Sadly, Richard Williams died in August of 2019. I was first introduced to the Thief and the Cobbler when I was 5 and we rented it from a local Blockbuster. To me, it was a ripoff of Aladdin (1992), but after reading so much of Williams' project, he was trying to make his dream come true. Now I believe that his passion project will always be remembered, hopefully for the next 100 years.
forget the next 100 years, Richard William's legacy can and must be remembered forever. RIP Richard Williams.
I legit gasped at the post credit scene, for the 10th anniversary of Animation Lookback and Electric Dragon Productions we are finally getting Walt Disney Animation Studios +!
Same!
I remember watching the video where he announced it around 2013
MagicalRanter224 What video?
Chill Player 123 it was one of the update videos
Chill Player 123 Turns out I was actually wrong, it was in his top 10 moments from AL Disney video. But I think he may have mentioned it in an update video too
After all these years, he finally is about to do Animation Lookback: Walt Disney Animation Studios +. I remember when he first announced it almost a decade ago in 2010.
Me too!!!
Simply Just Fun and to think that now there going to be a disney streaming service called disney+
RIP Richard Williams 🙌
Oh boy an animation look back on Disney updated I'm so excited as a huge Disney fan.
Agreed.
Yeah me too, i thought he was gonna do a animation lookback on either Nickelodeon or even the weekly Shōnen jump anime adaptations and now he doing a remaking on one of his older videos that his channel back on 2009 know as the updated version of animation lookback on Disney
Alex Delosreyes I thought it would be Blue Sky Studios
MagicalRanter224 Nah. Not iconic enough.
Alex Delosreyes Animation Lookback: Nickelodeon is a Paterson goal.
It’s good to always set limits on yourself so you don’t accidentally have a mess of a production like that movie XD
I just started reading The Animator’s Surviavl Kit recently! It was good but I haven’t had time to finish it!!!
This whole lookback series was great. Thanks Mat!
Awesome ending.
As for what's next in the Animation lookback, I think it may have something to do with that secret ending.
15:00 Well well well.. Looks like his next animation lookback is a look on Disney Animation Features he did years ago.. But this time some more information, Films to get the Animation Lookback treatment, Oohh boy,
This Lookback is going to be a long on!
this movie is essentially the apocalypse now of animation
Props for your testimony on The Animator's Survival Kit. I have the expanded edition in my possession and I've been using it as my go-to animation textbook ever since I got it as a birthday present. The Thief and the Cobbler inspired me to take up animation as a major in college and as a career.
I am REALLY excited that you are finally doing Walt Disney Animation Studios+ after 10 years of putting it off!!!!
RIP Richard Williams i'm happy he got a somewhat bttersweet ending with this film before he died :)
R.i.p Richard Williams. May your project finally be completed in heaven.
RIP Richard Williams
(1933-2019)
I have to say thank the Mighty Pencil that Garrett Gilchrist and his team made the Recobbled Cut. It may have been a while since I've watched it, but it was certainly a delight. Plus, it's nice that Williams is now on good terms with "Thief," in spite of all the trouble he had to go through.
Hot Dog! We're finally getting Animation Lookback: WDAS+! Can't believe it's been so long since you've made that announcement.
Good.
Not quite the happy ending he wanted but at least he got to make a legendary animation instruction book
Calls The Illusion of of Life an important book about animation.
Callously throws said book to the ground.
Well, lets it drop to the floor more likey, but it still cracks me up when it goes "THUMP!" on the floor. Oh, and uh, does the same for his Blu-Rays was well XD
You should teach people how you research and make these videos. I am so much in love with your reviews and how you do it.
I think he already did.
Watch "Making of Animation Lookback"
15:00 Animat, what a plot twist !!
14:52 Oh my god, yes. HE'S REMAKING IT!!!!!!
To have all of the machinations of this tale of hair pin turns... turn out to be "bitter sweet".... goes even beyond what Williams could have imagined. "Thief and the Cobbler" is living & will live on. ( Oh.., thanks for the recap, ElectricDragon505 ....)
5:20 So true! My animation teacher has that exact book - he's a real legend! :D
YES! YOU’RE FINALLY MAKING AN UPDATED VERSION OF ANIMATION LOOKBACK DISNEY! And just in time for the 10th Anniversary!
This reminds me of when a rogue member of Warner Bros Feature Animation leaked a workprint of The Iron Giant, 5 months before its August 6th theatrical release.
There should be a biopic about the 30 years Richard Williams spent slaving away on the movie. It's a very bittersweet ending for sure, but the journey is an amazing story
Mr. Gilchrist: Fine.... *I'll do it myself.*
I am Thanos in this situation.
the story behind this project is so tragic for me it makes me wanna cry on William's behalf 😭😭😭😭
This is the age of the fan. Amateur animators should set in and volunteer to finish it for him before he dies. All the story boarded scenes and color in the pencil tests. It can all be done on computers much more cheaply than to put pencil to paper and paint brush to acetate. And I'm sure he would not mind that it was all shared and completed digitally as long as he can see that people wanted to help him complete the greatest animated film in history.
10:20 Oh, sh&t. Here we go again.
Oh yeah! Two parts in one month? I'll take it! Looking forward to seeing this Animat! Keep up of the great work! Wonder what's next for Animation Lookback. Edit: Is it finally happening? Animation Lookback: Disney+?!
14:59 to be continued
RIP Richard Williams
Animation Lookback Disney: 10th Anniversary coming up in either the fall 2019 or Winter 2020.
Since this will be the 10th anniversary, is there anything we can send to him for that celebration? Maybe some artwork of ours to show that we love him? That would be nice.
@@BigLightning4360 That's a good idea
@@BigLightning4360 I hate to break this to you, but he said that "What's in the box" is over.
This is awesome cause that means he’ll talk about the 2010s movies 🎥
@@trippcory Can emailing be an option? And, I don't watch or do "What's in the box" often.
The final part of this Animation Lookback, Richard Williams may have his downs during it’s production but The Recobbled Cut has been a great ‘What should have been’ film.. his legacy of animation shall live on, Who Famed Roger Rabbit & The Recobbled Cut are two of my favourite films, With & without Richard Williams!
10:43 Too bad it's not the whole thing and now it'll never be. :(
Dear Animat: I hear that Garret Gilchrist is working on a Mark 5 of the Recobbled Cut of The Thief and the Cobbler. This new version features some revised animated shots that are more consistent to the animation done by Williams. There's already a work in progress version of Mark 5 that you can check out on Internet Archive.
Bravo! Thanks all the work you did to tell this story.
Great, long review, AniMat! Congratulations!
Richard William has died. It's sad for me and I bet for all of you. But we should Celebrate his death and what he's left behind.
4:16 to 4:24
Of course Michael Eisner had to mess up something in the animation world and he killed off this movie.
Sonicman 128 curse you, Michael Eisner!
Poor Richard Williams. I love the Theif and the Cobbler. I loved the art style even as a kid.
now that was epic foreshadowing!
Love rich is getting his vision made, thanks for telling us all about the longest production ever taken.
What a crazy story
I've been waiting for this conclusion! These are great Mat keep it up! 👌🏿
In 2020 the Recobbled cut mark 4 got a brand new italian dub by the youtuber 151eg, and it was released in his channel and in new cinemas in rome and milan with an interview
Could we get a movie or series based on the production of this movie?
May He Rest In Peace.
Don't know If he's still around or not but he truly deserves to make a big comeback In animation someday. If 2D Hand Drawn In Marry Poppins Returns can truly come back and can do the same.
_The Thief and The Cobbler_ , along with Alejandro Jodorowsky's adaptation of _Dune_ , stand together as two examples of the greatest films never made.
Thank you, Animat, for making this series!
It would still be so great if we could still get the director's cut
Bryce McKenzie Maybe Netflix could pick it up and finish it.
R.I.P Richard Williams... ❤️❤️❤️
I love that it took him a hot minute to agree to talk about this movie again like
"I don't wanna talk about it anymore."
"But it's so good and we love it."
"....Well if you insist."
Typical artist.
Can’t wait for Animat’s Animation l👀kback on Vídeo Brinquedo films since I don’t think there’s nothing left.
Their are a few companies he could talk about. Filmation, UPA, Max Fleisher.
It is really fashinating to see how he went from being inspired by Disneys first movie to actually be part of the company. And that so many hands were in this movie should not come as a suprise. This is indeed a world scale movie. I do love The Recobbled Cut Mark 4 but it whould be amazing if eventually teams of animators managed to get foundings to finish it up but it is much to wish for. Imagine how much the cost for this movie is on now.
R.I.P Richard Williams.
Great documentary!
Speaking of beautiful movies that can never be, have you considered on doing a documentary on "Kingdom of the Sun"? As of now, "The Sweatbox" is still on TH-cam.
I can’t wait for animation look back Disney 2
This videos makes me as happy as sad.
Your next animation lookback should be about about the art of motion capture.
10:43 well... that was semi poor timing.
I Can't Wait for the Next One!
glad Animat did forgot to mention how Atlantis the Lost Empire (2001) didn't go too well at the box office as he mentions how the early 2000s weren't going well for the Disney Studios!
Richard Canipe He used some examples.
The History of Fletcher studios
YES
LETS GET SOME HYPE IN THE CHAT
ANIMATION LOOKBACK DISNEY+
IVE WAITED FOR SO LONG
Woo oo
Before watching this video, I’m guessing the next AL will be Blue Sky Studios.
EDIT: Oooo interesting! I think a good pattern would be to do a remake of an old animation Lookback (Disney,DreamWorks,Pixar) and then do a new one, then another remake, then a new one, and so on. The Disney and DreamWorks ones aren’t very detailed, and although the Pixar one is a lot better and has a lot more facts, there has been so much that happened since then and it would be interesting to see an update.
Rip Richard Willams
Diego Raf Diaz's List: The Top Ten Richard Williams Animation Projects
1. The Thief and the Cobbler (Actual Movie)
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
3. A Christmas Carol
4. Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure
5. The Pink Panther Opening Titles
6. The Little Island
7. The Arabian Knight
8. The Animator's Survival Kit
9. That Book About Mulla Nasrudin
10. The Princess and the Cobbler
Sheesh, this was a hard list to make!
RIP Ricahrd Williams
The "Recobbled Cut"!
I have those two books on my 16th birthday and still have them till this day.
Life saving books they are.
animation lookback 10 anniversary
Unfortunately Because Richard Williams Died Last August.. 😔 RIP
Could There Still be A Possibility For The Academy to Finish The Movie For Him??
Is There any Director Notes or something that Was Classified??
Anthony Pedroza
Williams didn't work on storyboards until 25+ years into making the Thief and the Cobbler and was generally a terribly disorganized production. Do you seriously believe he would actually have notes on a movie he was expecting not to complete in his lifetime?
Richard Williams is not a "story" guy, he spent most of Thief and the Cobbler's production animated cool and complex motions and scenes over having a coherent plot.
R.I.P Richard 'Dick' Williams
The Post credits scene! D:
The Thief and the Cobbler is already buried by the Nostalgia Critic
Does that matter?
@@BlazeHeartPanther No, I really don't care what that overrated piece of shit Doug Walker said
15:00 What does this mean?
The one eyes also remind me of lord hater's eyeball army. No doubt they were inspired by this film.
This reminds me of the story of the never-completed "Smile" album by the Beach Boys.
Richard Williams was very talented but also fucking crazy. Proof is many of the deleted scenes from Thief. Like the Warmachine scene....nuff said.
Animat can you please do a classic review of home on the range?
Remake or continuation?
I wonder if someone will finish the prologue movie because we'll RIP.
great series of videos
Next Animation Lookback ladies and gentlemen, Animation Lookback: Walt Disney Animation Studios - 10th Anniversary Edition. Complete with the production history of the rest of their films from “Tangled” to “Frozen II”. Like if you’re excited for it.
So let’s say I only got the chance to watch one version of this film, which version should I watch?