One of the films I raved about after comic con was Garrett Gilchrist`s recobbled Theif and the Cobbler. Monday night at Fullerton an animation student came up after class and asked me if I had heard of this film called the Theif and the Cobbler.

As fate would have it I had the Disney version (sic) and the recobbed version all set out for my Tuesday class. Yesterday I got to try both versions out for the first time on students.



I ran them through about one Disney princess song (all I could stand - not that I have anything against Disney princess songs in a Disney movie, Belle rocks, but this is not a Disney movie and songs of this type and the out of place animation that goes with them have no place in Richard Willams` masterpiece) Then I switched over to the recobbled version and played the whole thing.

That is the all time most amazing animation I have ever seen in my life. I have a new all time favorite character, (the thief) enthused one of my students where can I get a copy?

I told him Garrett`s website http://www.orangecow.org/ and wished him good luck. Garrett can`t sell them and there is really a question about if he can give them away. So my question is now that Disney has turned itself around when are they going to do right by the Theif and the Cobbler? Garrett has done the road map it is time to connect the dots.  ¶ 3:43 PM