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This week’s redraw! did anyone else watch this as a kid? scared the crap o ut of me haha

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Taran reaching forEilonwy

John Hurt
1940-2017

This makes me sad. Rest in peace.

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Fantasy Characters: The Horned King

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Elizabeth Rage joins the gang to watch THE BLACK CAULDRON, the largely-forgotten Disney movie from 1985 that nearly bankrupted the company. This movie is very dark and pretty much a Lord of the RIngs rip-off, but we had an amazing time imagining the corporate management style of the Horned King and comparing the plot to a D&D campaign.

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This is one of my new favorite episodes, if only because me and Chelsea really run with the jokes about Dungeons and Dragons and the Horned King. We end up painting a picture of the Horned King that tells a sad tale, one of a bad break-up that left a lonely man in the world who tries to fill the void in his heart with back rubs and motorcycles.

It’ll make sense when you watch the episode.

Production cels from the “undead” sequence from The Black Cauldron that were ultimately cut out by demand from newly appointed chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg. 12 minutes in total were cut from The Black Cauldron, and the full version of this more graphic “undead” sequence has never been released.

“When they started having screenings for the public at the studio theater to gather their reactions to our rough cut film, I remembered the window at the end of the hallway where Walt would sometimes stand looking out over his studio while checking people’s reaction as they left a screening… I knew that the ‘un-dead’ section would most likely be revolting to some in the audience who would not expect to see a bunch of rotted corpses slowly fermenting… in a Disney animated feature…

“Right on cue, the doors opened and a mom was angrily leaving with her two wailing children in tow. She was followed by another, and soon there was a sizable exodus of crying kids and upset parents fleeing from the theater… Afterwards as the directors and producer met, they didn’t need to read the ARI cards to admit that particular problem and the un-dead sections were quickly cut down and in some cases cut out completely. Unfortunately those simple cuts could not repair the rips in the fabric of the storyline or magically make the film the fantasy epic it should have been.” - Michael Peraza, layout artist on The Black Cauldron

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Concept art for The Black Cauldron byMel Shaw

Disney acquired the rights to Lloyd Alexander’s The Prydain Chronicles all the way back in 1971. Mel Shaw created many amazing, dark, and moody pieces of concept art for the adaptation but then-CEO Ron Miller didn’t believe that the fresh new staff were up to such a challenge of creating a film to match. Thus, Miller pushed the project back in order for the staff to get better skilled before tackling this adaptation.

One of the young Disney artists who was upset with Disney Animation’s timidity was Don Bluth, who felt that the company was not living up to the quality of older Disney films, such as Snow White. To fulfill his ambitions, he and a bunch of other Disney artists worked on their own animated short called Banjo the Woodpile Cat. Miller wasn’t happy about this. And when Aurora Productions offered Bluth the financing to do a feature-length film in 1979, Bluth and 11 other artists left Disney.

Longtime layout artist Joe Hale was then promoted to producer, and he made some major changes to the story and art direction. Along with the directors, Ted Berman and Richard Rich, they attempted to capture the style of Sleeping Beauty. Unfortunately, the movie was a box-office failure and nearly put Walt Disney Feature Animation in bankruptcy, but in the years since, The Black Cauldron has become somewhat of a cult film for some Disney fans.

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screenshot redraw of the horned king from black cauldron bc hes pretty cute