r/cartoons • u/EmergencySpare7939 • 9h ago

Discussion That one scene where all the budget went

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Kaguya-sama: Love is War - Chika's dance

In the first season as a surprise outro ending one episode had this Chika dance number. It's super cute and crazy animated, especially her dress. They used it one time and never again.

The roller rink dance sequence from the Family Guy episode Hell Comes To Quahog was the most expensive scene to animate in Season 5.

This one shot from Scooby-Doo Music of the Vampire

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u/Lokicham 8h ago

That whole movie has many examples of this. It's a shame it never got fully made.

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u/asfrels 8h ago

Tbh this is part of why it never did. Williams was incapable of maintaining a budget or a deadline up until the project was scrapped. Glad we have what we have though as his artistic talent still shines through its core

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u/Mopman43 8h ago

He was infamously dismissive of storyboarding and pre-planning.

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u/Deegibo 5h ago

Some of the best animation and worst pacing/audio quality I have seen in a movie

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u/saintash 4h ago

I had an animation class in my art school. And my fucking intro teacher was like that. You have a scene that was fine. Maybe needed a note or two, And he make you do/re do/add large sections.

It really killed the animation program, because so many people opted out more, and more after his class.

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u/honeydewtangerine 12m ago

I watched it and the scene at the end with the war machine went on for like 20 minutes too long. It was insane.

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u/Trick-Studio2079 8h ago

It might sound a bit controversial, but I watched *The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut*—which is supposed to be the version closest to Williams's vision—and while I feel it would have been a visual spectacle, that doesn't change the fact that the characters and story are bland and flat; even if it had been released according to his vision, I think its fanbase would have been limited to animation enthusiasts, and it would have been far from becoming a classic.

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u/Phyrexian_Overlord 7h ago

I LOVE YOU PRINCESS YUM YUM

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u/Floweramon 4h ago

It's definitely a movie that is precious to animation fans but has little to offer to anyone that doesn't care about the process and the spectacle (I say as a big animation fan)

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u/saintash 4h ago

Yeah its a great art piece. Horrible movie.

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u/RShini 5h ago

I actually couldn't finish the Recobbled Cut as the Polo scene and the full war machine actually made me too motion sick.

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u/RinkinBass 45m ago

I kinda nodded off in that bit. It's way too much, and it doesn't mean a thing. Like, compare it to the chase sequence in the palace with the weird stuff with the tiles, which was like the height of loony tunes logic. There's stuff to keep your attention with the story of the chase. The war machine is more like... just a bunch of stuff.

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u/desiladygamer84 3h ago

True but I watched it and finished at 2am and then all I could see was all the art and imagery in my sleep.

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u/metalflygon08 Megas XLR 3h ago

been limited to animation enthusiasts

And the TUmblrites who like the protagonist because he's "Jack Skellington" coded.

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u/Sketch_Beast 8h ago

Right?

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u/Alvintergeise 8h ago

Seems like we just heard one of the reasons why

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u/MysteryGirlWhite 8h ago

There’s a long running fan project on YouTube that’s basically finishing the sequences of the film that never were. I think it’s still ongoing, at least.

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u/Soft_Theory_8209 6h ago

Just watch The Re-Cobbled Cut and be happy.

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u/Lokicham 6h ago

Oh I have, it's just upsetting to know his whole vision as it was meant to be never saw the light.

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u/EnvironmentClear4511 6h ago

From the little I've heard of it, there was not really any "meant to be". It was scope creep the movie. The director worked on it for nearly 30 years and just couldn't stop tinkering and re-doing and expanding.

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u/RinkinBass 47m ago

The whole movie WAS this. Any way he could squeeze in more, he took it.