:06:03
It drove the animators nuts.
:06:04
How many tentacles are there?
There's at least...
:06:07
- Eight tentacles.
- Eight tentacles.
:06:08
Each one of those
has got a million joints in it...
:06:10
to have to bend and twist...
:06:12
so you can make all those spaghetti shapes
with the tentacles.
:06:17
Simon Wells boarded this scene
and did a fantastic job...
:06:19
and it was his idea to give Sinbad
a reason to help Proteus...
:06:23
by having his boat be destroyed.
:06:25
So Sinbad actually throws in with Proteus
not out of loyalty to his old friend...
:06:30
but because he's really angry
at the monster for ruining his ship.
:06:35
It ends up reinforcing the bond these
two guys had 10 years ago.
:06:42
And everyone's favorite gag
in the opening here.
:06:44
There's nothing like visiting
a sea monster's stomach...
:06:47
and then coming violently back out on deck
to make your morning.
:06:55
Give that guy a raise.
:07:00
Come on, let's go!
:07:02
Wait! Stand your ground!
:07:03
What you see occasionally
in the background are guards fighting...
:07:07
and those are almost exclusively...
:07:09
3D animated characters, and yet,
Sinbad and Proteus are 2D characters.
:07:13
Throughout the picture,
and we'll identify other moments...
:07:16
we are combining drawn animation
with CG animation...
:07:19
and really trying to use
whatever medium creates the best effect.
:07:22
So with the guard animation, for instance...
:07:24
all of those battles
could be reused in different shots.
:07:27
If you had a good slash and stab motion
with a guy with a sword...
:07:30
you could use it again
in another shot if it was CG.
:07:32
So we did a lot of computer-generated
guard animation.
:07:34
They did a great job of reusing
and they had a whole strategy.
:07:37
They animated a couple of guards and
reused them from different angles and stuff.
:07:42
Damon's crew did some beautiful
compositions against these sky layouts...
:07:46
for where to look, and keep
nice, open areas around the characters...
:07:51
while there's still
a lot of information on the screen.
:07:54
This was really a nice, organic,
very big sequence for us to work on.
:07:59
Robert Crawford and Mark and Pam
did an extraordinary job...