The Shrek Test Animation Has Been Found 

my favorite genre of found media will always be “was online for over a decade but was under a random ass name”

This truly is an “I Feel Good” moment.

The fact that no stills have been found which aren't in this version is pretty compelling. It's not out of the question there's more, but I think it's safe to call found until we get some hard evidence of that

Hey folks. I was at PDI during Shrek's production and know Jono Gibbs well. If he said there's a longer test, he definitely knows what he's talking about and is not misremembering an animatic or storyboards. Nobody who works on an animated feature would possibly make such a mistake. I've never seen this test before personally (and I really appreciate your posting it!) but the story of this test, it's style, technical approach, and deficiencies, was known throughout the company and nobody who saw it with their own eyes would mentally substitute another clip or something like that. It's simply far too different from PDI's Shrek as it existed in any stage of preproduction or production.

Never thought I’d hear the sentence “Fat raindrops began sizzling on Shrek’s hot knob.” But this channel never fails to amaze me 😂

Could 100% see this early rendition becoming a cult classic, hidden gem type of animated movie if they continued development with this general vibe and darker tone. Like the type of movie that only becomes popular like a decade later because a large cartoon RU-vidr makes a video prasing it.

i def dont think theres a longer version of it. he said in the interview that they made one test before it was canceled, as in that was all that was made

This video is spectacular, but (and I mean this with all the love for the community in the world) it never ceases to amuse me how much the hunt for lost media ultimately drives people to talk about the most ridiculous things with such gravity and reverence

"fat raindrops began sizzling on Shrek's hot knob" made my face melt off like the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark looking into the Ark

I think that if there was a 2-3 minute long test, it probably was not compiled before the project was cancelled. The stuff we are seeing was probably the “completed” part of it and the rest was still missing its set.

My guess is that there actually is more to the animation test. The main reason I say this is because the Vimeo upload follows the “I Feel Good” animation up with various facial expressions. If you ask me, while this could’ve just been sharing hard disk space with the I Feel Good test, it seems a little conspicuous that they were of both the same Shrek model and the mugger model. Thus, I think he was right about there being a 2-3 minute full test, but I feel like it was likely a behind-the-scenes look at the components that made the final animation.

"Gimme your loot, f**k boi!" Please put that in Shrek 5

What blows my mind is that the iconic DreamWorks ogre we've come to know and love... ... *CAME FROM A BOOK!*

I love the background and the medical village. It has this dark and Lonely atmosphere that I would have loved to see more of.

No, these are just employee place hold voices and not the Farley nor Kenny audio. Also a Shrek Render Test has been found showing more dialogue.

There needs to be more searches into other test animations made during a film’s development. One I thought of was Iron Giant before Brad Bird got involved it was originally envisioned as a musical. A little bit of footage could be seen in the Giant’s Dream documentary.

Watching the test animation again, I'm realizing that it shares a lot of visual similarities to certain areas in the "shrek" game for the Xbox. It was made before the movie was really in production and I'm wondering now if they didn't partially use the test animation for reference. Creepy Crypt especially gives me a similar vibe to the nighttime town Shrek dances and sings in

I would say its definitely been found lol. It was amazing to finally see the animation in full. Also this video explaining everything and how it happend was awesome!! Shrek being found gives me hope. You see, I've searched for years now for a lost episode of pixar Cars toons. It's called "to protect and serve" It never aired but was entirely finished. I've tried to contact many people before but it never gets me anywhere:(( If anyone could help me that would mean the world. Happy holidays!!

I do not think this is the full test animation: when the worth point listing was found, he said the test was around 45 seconds long and the test animation we got was 38 seconds long. here is what I think is missing in the test: the first video of the test animation had the beginning higher up in the sky than what we got in the beginning of the 38 second version. At the end of the test animation video we found, there was sculptures making Shrek's and the Mugger's facial features and at the end of the 38 second version, the screen cut to black.

Now i truly feel good

Could of put in the thumbnail, "It's Ogre."

Missed opertunity to write "It's All Ogre Now" on the Thumbnail

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I like this Shrek visual.

Am I the only one who's actually genuinely terrified of this version of shrek? I'm an adult and this legit makes the fear in my brain fire like crazy

Incredible find. It was fun watching the search for years. I think it has to be completely found. What I think Jonathon Gibbs was referring to was the longer storyboarded segment. Perhaps they were intending to animate that entire scene for the test (the storyboards match up with his timing recollection of 2-3 minutes), but after this one segment was complete is when they scraped the remaining. The rough audio was also most likely an animator using temp as well.

It feels like a different universe where this was Shrek when I watch it, so creepy and interesting but happy we got the modern Shrek

If someone made a crowd fund for a 30-45 minute "Farley-cut" Shrek short voiced by Kevin Farley & animated by the same team, I'm sure it would happen. I'd donate to see what could've been, even if it's entirely different than what we got.

It’s crazy that Steven Spielberg saw the Shrek book and thought, take my money! But then he turned out to be right.

Is there any more lost media content creator anyone could recommend to me

Considering the voice doesn't sound like ether vas and looking at the video and listening to the audio I think it's possible we have the wrong audio. Like it seems to me Shrek is supposed to be the one singing but we just have the real original song.

I could say it has been found, but I'd appreciate a higher quality version, but still, it's finally great to see this test animation complete with voice and music, really great effort!

"Completely found" could be debatable. I have a feeling that the animation that has been found was much longer and more dialogue heavy than the simple exchanges between Shrek and the mugger. Certainly a milestone getting this much footage though!

Yeah we were waiting for this one

Insane to see this come to light after literally first hearing about it when I was a kid 💀 now I’m a grown man and we finally got the test footage

You should cover some Lostwave topics some time! There's been a crazy number of finds these past few weeks, and plenty of other interesting searches still going on too

Wow I didn't realize we almost got Chris Farley as Shrek like that just blows my mind I'm actually really sad that didn't happen

Even if this is the entire test animation, we should probably continue searching for a higher quality version as we know from some stills that there has to be a higher res recording, i still hope we see more of farleys voice lines

Finally! I was really waiting for your video

Imagine living in an alternate universe where this is the shrek we got, not knowing what you missed out on.

it'd be more interesting if we could take the voice lines from chris farley and reconstruct what could have aired using the info we have.

I was waiting for this video :')

Good that it was found. Also someone who worked on Beebylon commented on the video

The type of computer you needed to make this in 1995 would of been jaw dropping back then, huge respect to the animators for the work, and honestly this doesn't seem that weird and creepy, it looks more dark but funny. would of been interesting to watch for sure

i thought i would be long gone before I saw this test animation

i would say. it is "partially" found. And maybe you guys will say "Why you say that?", and is because is in low quality and not on it's high quality. It looks like it was extracted from a VHS with the quality it has. Is still something that we finally see the full test animation, but we still don't get the hq version with better audio and better image quality, but again, is still something.

Honestly, I feel like the reactions to the test at the time were overexaggerated as to me it looked quite fine for the 90's. Yeah, he's ugly, but he's an ogre, what'd you expect? And there's now ways to make characters that're ugly in a cool way, so I think a book-accurate Shrek reboot done in the style of TMNT: Mutant Mayhem could be something special.

whoever found the intire, full, short.THEY HIT GOLD

Shrek is love. Shrek is life.

I never thought I'd live to see the day. Lost media equivalent of GTA 6

I wouldn't be surprised if the original animation was 2-3 minutes long, but I feel like at this point it's unlikely we'll find more of it. I'd be delighted to be wrong, though!

Fat raindrops began sizzling on Shrek’s hot knob That’s my obituary people

I love that Shrek was going to be a film that used iconic songs no matter what it looked like

"Shrek!" the book was a bedtime-reading favorite of my daughter when she was little. She loved how bizarre, off-putting and completely unlike the movie it was. I had fun doing a scary ogre voice that in no way resembled Mike Myers.

didn't realize until now that I actually read the childrens book Shrek as a kid... I vividly remember all of the pictures

I hope somehow in the future we'll get a release of the alternative version.

This is why it was terrifying to be shreked

I don't know what it is but something about the Shrek test animation looks & feels... nice

There’s a universe where we got a darker, source-faithful version of this movie that was really wild and interesting, but that’s also a universe where the movie failed.

I think the audio was just a modern recording added on to silent footage.

crazy to find it today! very nice video!

I will not rest until we find the missing frame

Let's just be glad they took a look at that animation and said hell no.

If it’s longer, we need to find it

I definitely feel good right now!!!

I really like it. It’s so… homely. It feels as if the only thing in that universe is that. It’s nostalgic.

This is just the tip of a "lost media footage" ice berg

there’s one thing that doesn’t make sense to me. if there was a listing with the tape including the test animation, how didn’t anyone buy? the video would’ve been spread years before the vimeo video

"This movie is worth nothing, and we will make fun of it and the ones who worked on it" 2000's kids "How does it feel to be wrong?"

im sure everyone was feeling good after they saw that

For those into lost animation 'The Mysterious Geographic Adventures of Jasper Morello' is on RU-vid in one form or other but it used to be available in high resolution dvd or Bluray. If you can find a high resolution version I would be so happy.

Yknow, the appearance of this animation test really explains why the original Xbox Shrek has such a weird tone.

new vid LETS GOOOOOOOOOO

The longer test might’ve never been animated. All we saw was what was animated.

I’d like to believe that there’s a longer test out there

shrek looked like something out of rayman 2

This is the utter definition of "i literally have nothing better to do"

Oh yeah I remember the test video I seen it 2 years ago. I'm so glad they changed the character for the movie.

Barry Jackson was in Los Angeles pre production and the people looking for names just flew right past him and now he’s the one to reveal the test what a storytelling

Wait I just got Deja vu, I watched this video a year ago on the posted 7 hours ago mark, what’s going on

Ive heard the recording of it but havent saw the actual video until now.

While it is a big moment I can say with out a doubt its not completely found... or well there is another piece that goes to the animation (another scene) if memory serves me well.

I'm more curious if there is a Farley cut of animatics. I'd love to see that version of the movie.

This was a fun rabbit hole.

Hear me out: Slimer from Ghost Busters is Shrek's ghost.

Missed opportunity to start the video with "It's finally ogre".

I just got done watching Shrek the first movie. It was good.

What's amazing is The Zoom Art Studio is sitting right there in the recommended while watching this.

15:28 Its also possible that Someone who was there is going to know more about it than a random person who just searches for things & when they can't find it, assumes it doesn't exist because apparently all those people are that good, but really they are just scowering websites. I know whos word id take.

The way he says it so dramatically every time OMG XD "The Shrek... I feel good... test... animation"

The full original test is probably on a disk in a box buried in storage somewhere lol

I doubt there's a longer version. We would've seen at least a single frame by now.

This is an awesome video 👏🏻

0:35 damn didn’t know bro could beatbox💀

I wonder how long it will be before someone uses Ai to completely replace Mike Meyers voice with Chris Farley's

Shrek? More like Shriek

I wish we had a higher quality copy

It looks good, I wish it had been a full-length movie, but it's great it got found

Shrek looked like he should've advertised a funky ringtone

the framing of this reminds me of Summoningsalt

Donkey is a regular size donkey :v