Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Fantasia, Xanadu, Bluth, Black Cauldron Message-ID: <1542@nsc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 16:18:04 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.1542 Posted: Fri Oct 5 16:18:04 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 05:39:58 EDT References: <365@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: The Warlocks Cave, Walden Puddle Lines: 37 > If you like Fantasia, or if you didn't see Fantasia, check out > Allegro non Troppo. Just as an aside, there is a small cut of animation in 'Xanadu' that was about as close a ripoff of Fantasia as you'll ever find. It was done by the people at Bluth (Secret of NIMH) Studios who should know how to animate like classic Disney-- when Don Bluth got fed up with Disney Studios after Walt died, he took most of Walt's animators with him. Bluth was one of the primary animators on Snow White, by the way.. I've seen reports that the Black Cauldron is about ready to be released (perhaps at Christmas or next spring). This is one of the single most complicated pieces of animation ever attempted, and from the reports I've gotten Disney succeeded in botching it up royally. Bluth at one time attempted to buy the rights to finish BC from Disney because he felt that it was the only way to get it done right, but Disney tends to hold a grudge against him (interesting point-- Disney supports the California School of the Arts in the LA area, one of the better fine arts school in the country. A little while ago they were planning a Don Bluth retrospective and Disney threatened to cut off their funding if they went through with it... Walt is dead, that's for sure). At one point Disney studios called all of the animators at Bluth offering them essential blank checks to come back and finish the Cauldron for them, and not one moved. If the quality of the last piece of animation from Disney (Fox and the Hound) is any indication, Black Cauldron, if and when it shows, will be a travesty. I'm just glad that someone like Bluth is trying to carry on the traditional animation styles and qualities of Walt. I'm just very sorry that it couldn't have been at Walt's own studio... chuq -- From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {amd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA What do I know, after all I'm just a begonia...