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This Saint Patrick's day I decided to do a tribute to the musical 'Finian's Rainbow,' and cast myself as Og the Leprechaun, my favorite character, transforming a fellow into (what else?) an Irish setter.
This musical was almost made into an animated movie in the 50s by John Hubley, but the Hollywood blacklist destroyed it - and it would have had Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald in the cast too, so like 'The Thief and the Cobbler' and Brad Bird's 'The Spirit,' it's one of the greatest animated movies never made.
So with that in mind I tried to do this a little bit in the flat, spare Hubley style, and give myself an idea of what the movie might have looked like. That was the fun part.
So Happy Saint Patrick's day - "Follow the fellow who follows a dream."
This musical was almost made into an animated movie in the 50s by John Hubley, but the Hollywood blacklist destroyed it - and it would have had Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald in the cast too, so like 'The Thief and the Cobbler' and Brad Bird's 'The Spirit,' it's one of the greatest animated movies never made.
So with that in mind I tried to do this a little bit in the flat, spare Hubley style, and give myself an idea of what the movie might have looked like. That was the fun part.
So Happy Saint Patrick's day - "Follow the fellow who follows a dream."
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Transformation
Species Dog (Other)
Size 960 x 1273px
File Size 284.9 kB
A Hubley animated Finian's Rainbow would've been amazing, sorry it never got made. I hope there's concept art of it be found somewhere. (There's a tf in the original play and live-action movie too - but not human-animal. ) Hubley was involved early on in the Watership Down movie, but didn't stick around. Haven't seen it since it was new, but I remember some moments that definitely showed his influence.
They made a fascinating documentary about Richard Williams and his movie The Thief and the Cobbler, which he brashly claimed would be The Greatest Thing Ever. The documentary revealed several mind-boggling details, like Williams never bothering to storyboard the entire movie before beginning production, or telling an animator who completed a complicated shot "that's great, give me another 10 seconds of it." I'm told you can find scenes from his original version of the film online. (It was taken away from him when he missed his deadline and finished by others.)
I saw the film and own the LaserDisc. It's full of flashy, ultra-detailed, ultra-complex animated scenes - but the characters simply don't exist and completely lack any kind of internal life. Even if he had been able to successfully complete the film it would've probably been a failure due to its uninteresting characters. (Neither the thief or the cobbler had any dialog! The producers who took over the film hired comedian Jonathan Winters to babble a nonstop monologue of what the thief was supposedly thinking through the entire film.)
They made a fascinating documentary about Richard Williams and his movie The Thief and the Cobbler, which he brashly claimed would be The Greatest Thing Ever. The documentary revealed several mind-boggling details, like Williams never bothering to storyboard the entire movie before beginning production, or telling an animator who completed a complicated shot "that's great, give me another 10 seconds of it." I'm told you can find scenes from his original version of the film online. (It was taken away from him when he missed his deadline and finished by others.)
I saw the film and own the LaserDisc. It's full of flashy, ultra-detailed, ultra-complex animated scenes - but the characters simply don't exist and completely lack any kind of internal life. Even if he had been able to successfully complete the film it would've probably been a failure due to its uninteresting characters. (Neither the thief or the cobbler had any dialog! The producers who took over the film hired comedian Jonathan Winters to babble a nonstop monologue of what the thief was supposedly thinking through the entire film.)
I did this thinking of the scene in the play where Og cures the transformed villain of his racism - "You need a new inside, not your old outside!"
I call Thief 'greatest' just because the most famous thing about it is it was never really finished, but I still like to look at some clips. I'm okay with the two heroes not speaking, I'd say Williams' problem was not knowing when to stop - you read all the books about making the early Disney movies there are designs for all sorts of elaborate set pieces and chase scenes that never happened because Walt said 'Enough's enough.'
I call Thief 'greatest' just because the most famous thing about it is it was never really finished, but I still like to look at some clips. I'm okay with the two heroes not speaking, I'd say Williams' problem was not knowing when to stop - you read all the books about making the early Disney movies there are designs for all sorts of elaborate set pieces and chase scenes that never happened because Walt said 'Enough's enough.'
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