Zigzag's Playing Cards - The Thief and the Cobbler (HD)

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When a 20 second scene has got more frames than your average anime episode

I love how each card that falls has their own path and style. You'll also notice, Zig Zag doesn't even need to look at his hands to know when to catch a card. Watch his right hand as the card falls back into the deck and he closes his thumb to hold it down. Crazy attention to detail

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I like how you can slightly make out his cloak behind the black flag

Looks like Genie from Aladdin

I think the unsung hero of this scene is the person(s) who had to edit in the sound.
Imagine trying to get the sound for an entire deck of playing cards getting unfolded in the air.

Saw this clip on Instagram with the caption:
“That guy you knew in college who read two pages of ‘The Prince’ and made it his whole personality.”

Man's gotta be a real grandmaster of 52 pick up to pick all the cards up while in the air

watch it at 0.25 speed~! 🃏♠

I love the fairly subtle use of negative space here, with the black of Zig Zag's robes blending into the One Eye's flag. It's very simple but the effect really helps magnify the batshit insane animation of the cards.

Is it bad that I noticed an animation error in the amount of rings he has? He loses a joint and the accompanying rings at one point

Smoothest animation i've seen

Williams is probably my favorite animator fs

You truly just don't realize how insane this scene is until you actually try animation yourself

Just noticed Zig Zag has six fingers, which was a sign of magical powers in ancient times.

RIP Mr. Williams, arguably the greatest animator to ever live.

Am I wrong to say that this is the best animation ever created? :)

God, I love Vincent Price.

What a masterpiece. Though If I'm to be honest, the film would have been completed if Richard allowed for moments of this complexity to be spread out in small portions while keeping other elements simple to finish the project, but if he did that then we wouldn't have one of the greatest pieces of animation ever in lost media.

Scheherazade?

This scene feels unintentionally symbolic here. Zigzag is capable of impressive tricks with his cards, but he goes for something too fancy, and it falls apart. Kinda like the movie itself

My son is interested in learning animation. I told him Richard Williams is a great place to start.

I just noticed that the last playing card he catches is a joker card.

It's the greatest performance!

I think ZigZag and Jafar are twin brothers!

What is with all the cards?

"I have power over people, though they may appear complex. For me, they're, ho ho, like playing cards... and I control the decks!"

This almost looks like a CDI Zelda cutscene for some odd reason

Okay, that's actually pretty funny.

The initial movie was meant to be animated entirely like this, it was an ambitious project that would’ve stood the test of time had there been a bigger budget and more time

I watched this frame by frame. Not only is every card different, but they were ordered to create multiple full houses, flushes, and other high value hands to the card carrier, implying he made a false shuffle and is a cheater.

This was animated on 1s. All of these 20 seconds of animations were animated on fucking 1s. Holy shit.

the flow of the animation, it's terrifying how vibrant it is

Bro, Richard Williams animation is just fucking insane and is just plain awesome.

Hmm yes lore of The Thief and the Cobbler

Richard Williams: "I have power over Animation....though it may appear complex."
dramatic music as he thumbs a flipbook of impressive animation
"For meeeeee, frames fall like playing cards, and IIIIII control the decks!"
loses control of his finances, production team and movie
"WRRAAAHHHH!"

People almost died to make this scene happen.

Amazing attention to detail even on the cards

Such insane detail. You can actually spot the moment Joker goes behind Zigzag.

even at 0.5 speed it is more fluent than many nowadays animations

Click on the video and press "." (Full Stop) and "," (Comma) to advance through the animations frame by frame.

It really is worth watching this frame by frame. The amount of work that went into it is beyond incredible.

I always think the studio spent millions on this scene..... but maybe, just maybe, the animators are highly skilled to create this part with no trouble

gotta give Richard Williams credit for animating this good. if your methods are used by every animator, every one, then you must be doing something right.

is the last card (joker) flying out of his coat?? WOnderful

Zigzag should have used his zigzagging to escape from those crocs like the way people used zigzagging to when being attacked by gators.

If this was disney, the cards would be cgi.

Voice Vincent Price love .... Love ... Love

This scene defines how frickin' awesome of an animator Richard Williams was... He the king of 2D animation! The Greatest Animator of All Time!!