JediGuyKaleb biggest talent that most animators don’t have, including me: being able to move angles like he does. in nearly all his animations youll see he’s always moving angles around the body, and he’s doing that in this scene. its absolutely gorgeous!
2d animation is still very much alive, just not for animated feature films unfortunately. And they almost never have this much attention to detail and physics involved in such an artistic and beautiful manner.
Spider Verse was 3D, but it was stylized, and they treated the method similarly to how we animate 2D (like inconsistent frame rates). I think what's really wanted is to have unique animation with good design appeal. Where the style of movement tells the story and character well. Animation has the advantage of very precise emotion (if the animator is skilled enough) that is easily read, while live action can get a little muddy. An example is trying to have animals emote, animation can do this very clearly, while generally real animals can't change their face very much, relying mainly on body movement.
I think the original look was supposed to be a nod to The 10 Commandments film which is said to be one of the major inspirations and influences for The Princr of Egypt
i can definitely see the differences in design for some of the characters, huy and hotep were designed more animal-like, and jethro had a more disney-like design
True. Hotep looks like a monkey, but in the final version, he looks like a frog to me. The old character design for Seti looks like the one in the 50s Ten Commandments movie. Plus I like the animation for the dancer. I’m not sure if that was supposed to be Tzipporah or someone else.
@@myownself25 I can see why they changed that design too. I kind of cringed a little at the monkey design because "monkey" has been used before as racist terminology for African Americans, and here they designed two different Egyptian characters with a monkey design. And I don't know of that was intentional or not, because that character design luckily was thrown away I guess
All animations are hand drawn, some are done in paper and others in computer. Now, if you meant the difference in 2d and 3d animation. then yeah, 2d animation is beautiful but extremely hard to make that is why now a days 3d is more common since its easier.
@@FMAiscool let's not discredit all the other wonderful people who worked on this film. James Baxter is an animation legend, and always will be, but there were plenty of other talented workers who helped make this film possible.
I wish Esmeralda's dance from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame was this beautiful. I'm kinda dissatisfied with the way her dancing is animated. Like they didn't make it have any kind of smooth flow to it but still tried to force sensuality. This animation is much more natural and beautiful.
I knew from the start that it was 2D drawn bur for me the characters always looked so three dimensional when they moved around. Like every line fitted. As if they are rendered, how else can they rotate without a flaw of consistency. never saw a 2D so fluent before.
A common principle in animation is one where the animator studies so well, they master it to the point of drawing full figures, as in, the illusion of a 3-dimensional image. Animator's goal is that illusion of motion, and as Williams puts it in his book "The Animator's Survival Kit," he says that these characters have weight, muscle, whatever it be, to apply real-world physics in the animation
Oh, you know.Just many decade's worth of experience and expertise that allows me the privilege to have my current job. No biggies. No complete and utter awe and respect.
2:10, I love this interaction between Moses and the priest (Hotep or Hoy?) as he admits that his miracles are mere parlor tricks but they still have value in the everymans life and can even impart wisdom and hope for them. To quote Dracula, "The same could be said of all religions".
Ah, but I would imagine that the point being made is that Moses' signs are actually real. He isn't making them up, he just obeys God who does the actual miracles.
The only bible story movie that didn't feel forced or like it wanted to persuade you. Pure story telling with jaw dropping animation. *edit* glad so many people feel the same! All love!
This! It's the one biblically inspired movie that I still can watch and absolutely love (since it's a total animated masterpiece, frankly) without feeling like it's condescending and manipulative as fuck from my atheist POV. It's just telling the story from the ancient book, nothing more. Man, I wish they'd done something like this from tales off of other similar literature. I would LOVE a movie covering parts of the Bhagavad Vita.
even when i was a believer it didn't feel like it had an agenda. it read more like a story about brotherhood than anything to be honest. i was even thinking that it didn't have enough biblical feel to it. and then there's "God's not Dead" and as if that shitshow wasn't enough, there is a sequel.
The animation is so beautiful, no wonder this was my favorite movie. It is so smooth and all done by hand! Our generation has so much at our finger tips yet this is skill that shows with time and effort
Back in those days when children's movies were not only beautiful pieces of artworks, but had real content which left even the grown-ups speechless. I miss those days.
I honestly think it will make some form of a comeback, I feel like the reason why they're making everything CGI these days is because they can, and because gen xers are ruling the media industry at this point. Many of them have watched most of the process of CGI development, boomers really have, but gen xers saw a good amount of it, and that's why they sit around complaining about the bad graphics of Roblox and other games popular amongst generation alpha, because they have anticipated ever since their childhood graphics getting better and better. Were born right in the middle of it, between millennial and gen alpha, but especially Jen alpha, appreciates the content more than how high definition the CGI is. It's because this isn't any big deal to them, they haven't watched it evolve quite as much as their 50 year old predecessors. This is kind of a good thing, because they see it more for the content, and growing up in a time where anything could look like anything, they might actually decide that they prefer what older people would call lower grade, but to them, it just looks like a different style. as exciting as it may be for older generations to see CGI become more and more realistic, this is no new thing for younger people, and that's why they may desire something little more low tech. So, that being said, I do think so called lower grade animation is going to go back into style, and I feel like we've already seen some of that make a comeback, as there have been more and more video games coming out that have more of an 80s to early 2000s feel, between the CGI in Roblox, to the 8-Bit visuals of megalovania, if that's what it's called.
I'm not Christian, but I love this movie. It doesn't feel like it's telling you "you must believe in God or your a sinner" or something like that, it's just a lovely film with lovely animation and a good way of telling the story.
As a Christian, I strongly agree! My mom always said to never force our religion upon others and should respect what everyone else believes! The movie is stunning. I believe they did wonderful in the storytelling and animation :D
@@glo5643 Indeed. I'm so glad we could have a religious movie that doesn't ostracize people who think differently, and to top it off it's a masterpiece regardless of the source material! One of my favorite animated and written works.
I hope that way you can feel more intrigued to get closer to God. Many stories like in this movie are in the Bible. Man, oh man i wish more movies like Moses could be made today. (And honestly, yes, it’s the best Christian movie that sticks to the Bible and doesn’t feel forced or tries to force people to believe, it’s just telling you a story, so yeah, I completely agree with you)
CGI isn’t bad itself it has been used beautifully in many movies it’s only when companies use it and overwork underpaid employees that it comes out awful. And unfortunately many people don’t want to become artists anymore because the pay just isn’t enough now especially now that pirating can reduce revenue further. There are still many beautiful animators out there but they need full support from all the people that want them back
I love both Joseph king of dreams and the Prince of Egypt and I wish for more hand drawn animated movies based on the bible from DreamWorks so I made this petition of it so please sign, comment, share, and support my petition of it. www.change.org/p/dreamworks-tell-dreamworks-to-make-more-hand-drawn-animated-movies-based-on-the-bible/dashboard
This is a level of genius I aspire too. They not only had to know how to draw anatomically correct in all 3D forms but also how to make the character act, and act well, not stiff. It’s so incredibly brilliant
The scenes with Moses stretching out his hand into the fire! It's so crazy because I can hear the music playing in my head from this scene in the movie. That's the kind of impact great artwork can have. Animation is truly magical!
yeah, the score for the movie is also phenomenal and soo memorable- coupled with astounding animation (and possibly video effects) and you have yourself a more than worthwhile feature film. Hats off to everyone who played a role in making this.
I’ve been taking 2d animation classes for 2 years. I have to say that clean up / inking and coloring kills a lot of the pure dynamism that comes out from these (exquisitely done) pencil test. The same happened in beauty an the beast. Oh god if only they’d released the full movie like that..😻
it's why i find disney's xerox era to be fascinating ngl. i've always wondered how you could pull off that rough kind of linework while still coloring everything in digitally.
This is really impressive, of course the finished animation was beautiful, but seeing all the sketches, they look so hand drawn and it’s very very impressive, each frame is amazing
@@namedrop721 I know, I don’t remember making this comment but I think my point was that in the final animation, it looks very smooth and alive, you can’t really tell it’s hand drawn, but in the pencil test, it’s easier to appreciate the skill put into each frame, if you know what I mean
OMG THEY LITERALLY USED THAT SCENE FROM THE THREE AMIGOS AT 2:37 AND COMBINED IT WITH SOMETHING ELSE TO CREATE DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO CHARACTERS SO MUCH RESPECT FOR THESE ARTISTS
Yes it is a master and to let you know that I love both Joseph king of dreams and the Prince of Egypt and I wish for more hand drawn animated movies based on the bible from DreamWorks so I made this petition of it so please sign, comment, share, and support my petition of it. www.change.org/p/dreamworks-tell-dreamworks-to-make-more-hand-drawn-animated-movies-based-on-the-bible/dashboard
The scene everyone is talking about at 3:07. So full of believable sentience that when Moses looks around him for the Creator, you believe it - in more ways than one
Wow ! This brings back memories ! I worked on POE as an artist in consumer products and worked with the animators and final line artists . The quality of this film was unmatched !
I miss old quality of 2D animated films like this. It makes me happy to see such fine and hard work put into light again. The old way of animating was gorgeous when it was done right. James Baxtor is a man of talent who took part in the process of the Prince of Egypt and his work is phenomenal!
These particular animators who also made spirit and el dorado had such a way with expression and simple movements. Its like they follow a certain rhythm as the characters express themselves. It’s my absolute favorite.
The animation is so beautiful. Every little breath and minor not or flowing piece of hair just impresses me so much. They work so hard to create these animations.
I mean no disrespect to animators who work with newer technologies but there will always be something so special and incredibly impressive about hand-drawn 2D animation. It’s such a shame that animation as a whole is treated like some kind of silly thing only kids care about and isn’t properly recognized as a form of art.
As an artist there's something so satisfying about watching a figure through each carefully drawn frame, as though given a life of its own. I loved this movie as a kid, and it still holds a special place in my heart.
traditional animation deserves so much more attention and appreciation, at least today’s media. it’s personally one of the most beautiful visual (?) arts to me :)
I could not get over that girl dancing the animation take on her is so fluid and natural from the cohesive frames to her body work it’s just so well done. It’s a quite darn shame that studios now a days don’t use this technique anymore to complete movies.This and Spirit will always hold a great secret place in my heart and will help me to inspire me to do something meaningful
I'm glad you uploaded this, because it's sequences like these that help people realize how insanely dedicated animation really is. I'm not an animator myself, but once I realized the amount of work that went into childhood classics like the the prince of egypt or the disney movies, I've always been blown away seeing these "behind the scenes".
I like how some of the Cut scenes feel more like someone animated a podcast/interview with how rough the voices sound. Can I say, we need the Rambo Moses Cut.
Gosh I love this movie and seeing the these tests just makes me appreciate the people behind it even more! Also the different styles, and the plot points that went unused are so neat to see!
It’s real shame hand drawn animated movies on this scale from the late 90s and early 2000s are no longer produced. I would kill for a giant animation studio doing a hand drawn animated masterpiece with current technology
I absolutely love watching the progress and steps animators took just to make at least one scene. It's amazing what you can do with a paper and pencil :)
It’s so amazing watching these pencil tests. I miss these sort of things nowadays. It’s sad moving art like this isn’t around much anymore. This is beautiful.
There is so much talent in here. The way acting feels natural and as if you can read their minds. How even the very stylized characters maintain this ultra defined structure and proportion as they move around, where the same shapes make sense in the different prospectives and angles. The fluidity and wieght to their movements. Then you stand back and remember that this is all lines on a paper. It is just so much talent in there.
I long for animations like this again. I mean, I do like the good 3D animations from Disney, but man...these types of drawn 2D animation has so much passion as well. I'm sad we never see this on the big screen anymore... as if 3D is a necessity to be 'impactful' nowadays.
The draftsmanship is incredible--that is what's wrong with my 2D animations--the characters I draw seem to morph around like blobs every frame. This looks like 3D, the character proportions are so consistent!
Invest in tracing paper. Draw out your character, then lay a sheet of tracing paper over it. Trace the character, shifting things just a tiny bit. Next sheet of tracing paper over the first, and repeat. Continue. That's basically what they were doing here. :)
These movies at the turn of the century like Tarzan, Hunchback, Mulan, Moses, Spirit, but also Mononoke and Spirited Away truly were the peak of animation. These sketches make it abundantly clear, we were allowed to witness a golden age of an art form that only appears every few generations. But we also witnessed how people abandoned this masterful level of craftsmanship for the shiny plastic of Toy Story, rendered by a machine. It's a perfect metaphor for what we're dealing with as a whole. Humanity dischose itself.
i absolutely love this style of animation. Its so smooth and flowy and some if the movements and facial expressions are like "over exaturated" but in a good way amf there so much movemwnt in EVERYthing they do!!
good hand drawn animation doesn't age and it's good, no matter if it's 1930's or or 2000's, but there was something extremely beautiful in the late 90's-early 00's 2d animation
@@yanstein8464 even the DVD film "king of dreams" was amazing, the body lanague especially. Benjamin is designed to look like his elder brother Joseph but is clearly much more shy, reserved and maybe even a little awkward than Joseph was at that age and you get it all from the maybe 2 seconds he's on screen.
This is absolutely beautiful, seamless animation. I don't say this in an attempt to sound controversial, but I feel that Dreamworks' 2D animation was surpassing Disney's 2D animation at the time.
Geez animation is so cool imagine being one of the artists drawing all this and then seeing them speak with actual voices. It’s like they’re brought to life!
