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Welcome to Sinbad, commentary track.
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This is Tim Johnson, one of the directors,
and sitting to my left is...
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Patrick Gilmore, the other director.
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I'm Mireille Soria,
one of the producers of the movie.
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We brought along a bunch of friends today.
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We brought our production designer,
our head of story...
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our head of animation
and our head of layout.
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Hi, I'm Raymond Zibach,
I'm the production designer.
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I'm Jennifer Nelson, head of story.
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I'm Kristof Serrand,
the animation supervisor.
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And last but not least, Damon O'Beirne,
the layout supervisor.
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They do sing four-part harmony
but they're going to spare you that.
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Well, we're starting our picture
with a beautiful view of the constellations...
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and Patrick and I
pored over a book of constellations...
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to pick these ones for you.
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Each of the characters in Eris' menagerie...
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are based on real constellations,
whether it's Cetus, the sea monster...
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or Draco, the dragon, or what have you.
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And this sequence went through
many iterations...
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before we finally settled on this one.
Originally, Eris even had another god...
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Janus, who sort of served
as her foil in all of this.
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But in order to draw
the conflict more sharply...
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between Sinbad and the gods,
we chose just one villain here, Eris.
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It's sort of an exposition scene...
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a scene in which we have to set up
a lot of rules of our world...
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and boy, did we have exposition
at one point.
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Eris was practically reading
an encyclopedia...
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to tell us everything about the world.
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But we found a way to cut to the quick
and have Eris simply set up her scheme.
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And visually, we had a lot of
different passes of this as well...
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because we even had a version
where it wasn't Cetus, the sea monster...
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it was a fire-breathing bull
that we threw into the water.
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Yeah, we killed Taurus at one point.
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Eris realized Taurus couldn't swim...
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and didn't make a very good villain
in an ocean movie, so she had to reset.