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Gelfling! Check out these snuck preliminary sketches and art for POWER OF THE DARK CRYSTAL!!

First? by iron pills	Jan 3rd, 2007 12:55:35 AM
Uhh, yeah?
Fond memories of "The Dark Crystal"... by iron pills	Jan 3rd, 2007 12:58:22 AM
Curious to see how this pans out. Hardly anyone uses puppets these days.
Tartakovsky is the man. by Darth_Chicken	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:00:09 AM
I have faith in this.
Genndy by Frederika Bimmel	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:04:42 AM
can do no wrong. YOU ROCK!
oh lord by BadMrWonka	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:05:38 AM
I wills ee this no matter if michael bay directs it from a paul haggis script! I lvoe the dark crystal more than snorting coke off salma hayek's breasts on a pile of money that is goin g to be donated to AIDS charities.
ok, I took that too far by BadMrWonka	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:06:25 AM
I would never see anything that paul haggis wrote...
As I've said before... by Leadley	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:13:12 AM
If you want to re-imagine a popular 80s film, might I suggest one that would actually have a chance of MAKING money instead of LOSING it? One that DEMANDS our attention as filmgoers. One that COULD NOT BE IGNORED if and when it was released? Five words, folks: TANGO & CASH IN SPACE. (T&CIS)
Creepy by scrivener	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:13:15 AM
The predominance of black sort of has me creeped out.
Wow I Haven't Seen Fantasy Art by CaptDanielRoe	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:15:25 AM
Like this since the margins of my sixth-grade math class notebook on off days. Hey no offense or anything but I could make a better Gelfling out of a sack of felt and a few sequins....
I remember dragging my parents to "The Dark Crystal". by kikuchiyoboy	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:19:50 AM
I think my mom dosed off. But man, did I thank them for taking me to see that. That world just blew me away. Watching it now I can see why they didn't get into it. The film is a little inconsistent, but damn that world is just simply amazing. It's brilliant. The magic they created still hasn't faded after all these years. That "Dying Forest" looks epic! Tartakovsky seems to really be on the right track. Looking at these made me dust off "The World of the Dark Crystal" booklet.
cool by the_shogun_gunslinger	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:23:28 AM
think ive seen some of these before but cool deal none the less.
hmmm.... by streakerfreak1983	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:37:58 AM
I just don't know about this. But you know what, I am curious as too how well this might be done.
I hope this doesn't suck. by SWR 77	Jan 3rd, 2007 02:14:34 AM
I'd hate to hear that Tartakovsky raped anyone's childhood....
POTDC T-shirts available at Henson.com by Monkey_King	Jan 3rd, 2007 03:05:10 AM
Another shirt features concept art from POWER OF THE DARK CRYSTAL(a Gelfling in armor and more).
Looks Dark. by Mace Tofu	Jan 3rd, 2007 03:48:08 AM
Moody.
Sketches look cool but will the final film? by Reelheed	Jan 3rd, 2007 05:08:57 AM
It is the muppet lotrs after all. Although we have loved the original at the time it now looks disturbingly like the woeful Return to Oz flick.
CaptDanielRoe -These are xeroxes by Ray Gamma	Jan 3rd, 2007 05:21:15 AM
you moaning nobber
Seriously, does anyone really care about this? by Trazadone	Jan 3rd, 2007 06:15:28 AM
The original was a flop. Besides, I stopped caring about Muppets when I was 9-years old.
Weren't these shown by SithMenace	Jan 3rd, 2007 06:35:01 AM
on this site months ago? I remember seeing most of them.
HIGH SCHOOL NERD DRAWINGS ON A PEE-CHEE GOTTA EAT by Pound Sand	Jan 3rd, 2007 08:06:06 AM

Oh They're Xeroxes All Right.... by CaptDanielRoe	Jan 3rd, 2007 08:16:37 AM
...But bad xeroxes don't crud up overall forms of character and anatomy, or lettering and design.
Faxed, Actually.... by CaptDanielRoe	Jan 3rd, 2007 08:18:26 AM
But we'll see....
Yeah, Traz, people care about this. by Childe Roland	Jan 3rd, 2007 08:24:01 AM
Some of us have pretty fond memories of the first film and are excited to see Henson involved in something other than a Muppet Wizard of Oz. That's actually why most of us came into the talkback. Except you, of course. You came in to tell us all far more than we ever cared to know about you and your childhood history with muppets. Thanks for sharing. And don't worry...your dirty uncle can't reach you with that Ms. Piggy hand puppet from the federal pen. It wasn't your fault.
"WAAaaaaSHHAAAAHHHHHhhhhhh!" by future help	Jan 3rd, 2007 08:25:51 AM
-Samurai Jack.
Dark Crystal was quite successful... by Teko	Jan 3rd, 2007 09:08:53 AM
Leadley, etc, the whole reason that Henson Co is revisiting Dark Crystal and doing things like Mirrormask is that the original movie, while it tanked in theatres (being released opposite of E.T. will do that), has made boatloads of money on home video now that it's a cult classic.
Cult Classics by CaptDanielRoe	Jan 3rd, 2007 09:42:19 AM
Start with works that are fit to be worshipped and evangelized. You have to ask yourself whether someone coming out of the nerd cocoon in college would show it to his or her first serious girlfriend with every naive expectation that it would be a lifelong bonding experience. (Do not attempt the above with "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.") I don't see that quality in those sketches, my comments about junior high margin-scrawling notwithstanding.
DARK CRYSTAL didn't "tank" in theaters by LaudnerGomez	Jan 3rd, 2007 09:48:52 AM
$40 mil dom, 27 mil intl on a 22 mil budget is no flop. Perhaps Universal and Henson were bummed it didn't break out, but the film made money. And home video/DVD? The film is a cash cow.
GELFLINGS = THE OLSEN TWINS by tylerzero	Jan 3rd, 2007 10:12:05 AM
Anybody else notice the uncanny resemblance?
Reelheed by scrivener	Jan 3rd, 2007 10:12:54 AM
I always though Return to Oz was great. Woeful maybe in box office bucks - but great nonetheless.
WAY TOO SILVER! by Wasserman	Jan 3rd, 2007 10:13:40 AM
-nt-
CaptDanielRoe by Deuce Hexx	Jan 3rd, 2007 11:21:57 AM
Are you saying Dark Crystal isn't a classic because it won't get nerds the gals? Cause it totally does. My girlfriend loved it. Although she is a special case. The first movie we ever watched together (which has now become "our" movie) was Forbidden Zone.
i'm with childe by occula	Jan 3rd, 2007 11:30:24 AM
this film was very important to me as a kid, MUCH more important than 'the muppets.' one of the high points of recent years was finally getting to meet brian froud and telling him to his face his work on that film was the reason i became a production designer. ps - the gelflings look EXACTLY like the olsen twins. they should do mo-cap.
well, that shows me very little by finky089	Jan 3rd, 2007 11:36:56 AM
I'd settle for a re-release of Darl Crystal rather than have a new production that merely capitalizes on the original production. Sequel or not, I'm just not sold on this new film.
Teko, DC wasn't released opposite of ET by finky089	Jan 3rd, 2007 11:39:31 AM
At least not in the States because I remember seeing a trailer for DC when my parents took me to ET (and I remember it b/c the skeksi and the moaning of the Mystsics scared the crap out of me. Nevertheless, my hippie parents took me to see DC in the theater later on and I loved it. Thanks mom and dad!)
E.T. came out in June 82, CRYSTAL came out in December by LaudnerGomez	Jan 3rd, 2007 12:05:44 PM
Simple homework, people
GenTar is gonna knock it outta the park by S-Mart shopper	Jan 3rd, 2007 12:10:41 PM
keep an eye out for Samurai Jack in a cave drawing
I still try to hope by Durendal	Jan 3rd, 2007 12:43:11 PM
I know this one wont be as good as the original, but I keep hoping that it will at least be decent. The concept art on those shirts makes me wonder if it will even be that. Gelflings in full armor? That's kind of a violation of the mythology. Gelflings were never fighters. And the hackneyed writing that brings back the Skeksis, Garthim, etc is still present, it seems. You'd think that if they wanted to put a lot of time and effort into a sequel, they'd at least make sure they stick to the story and rules that have already been established.
Is that Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen? by Little Beavis	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:25:52 PM
fookin anorexic gelflings...
Durendal by Deuce Hexx	Jan 3rd, 2007 01:59:24 PM
RE: "the hackneyed writing that brings back the Skeksis, Garthim, etc is still present, it seems. You'd think that if they wanted to put a lot of time and effort into a sequel, they'd at least make sure they stick to the story and rules that have already been established." All the plot synopses I've seen have said that the Crystal gets split and a shard is removed, which is what caused the urSkeks to split into the Mystics and Skeksis in the first place. So I don't see how that is contrary to the "story and rules that have been established".
Durendal by Deuce Hexx	Jan 3rd, 2007 02:01:19 PM
RE: "the hackneyed writing that brings back the Skeksis, Garthim, etc is still present, it seems. You'd think that if they wanted to put a lot of time and effort into a sequel, they'd at least make sure they stick to the story and rules that have already been established." All the plot synopses I've seen have said that the Crystal gets split and a shard is removed, which is what caused the urSkeks to split into the Mystics and Skeksis in the first place. So I don't see how that is contrary to the "story and rules that have been established".
Deuce Hexx by Durendal	Jan 3rd, 2007 04:41:39 PM
For one, the UrSkeks were present, and in the end of The Dark Crystal, they leave. Second, Froud expanded on the universe (Henson approved and published), creating a backstory where the UrSkeks entered the crystal during the previous Great Conjunction in an effort to purge their capacity for evil. Unfortunately it split them into good and evil counterparts. The crystal was cracked by a Skeskis shortly after. The act of cracking the crystal did not split the UrSkeks.
My ass copied on a Xerox... by Little Beavis	Jan 3rd, 2007 05:29:11 PM
...came out looking more clear than these fookin scans.
Art by alienindisguise	Jan 3rd, 2007 05:36:09 PM
ok so i can't get a job as a concept or storyboard artist to save my life but these scribbles are what flies for art on a major film? That's nearly criminal!!!! www.tonytreloar.com
i'm assuming... by occula	Jan 3rd, 2007 07:12:22 PM
that since you put your website up, tony, you're looking for feedback. as a professional storyboard and concept artist, i think your work looks nice, but you might want to have some boards that have camera or blocking on them to show you really know the medium. even if you just boarded a sequence from an existing film or commercial, that would be what companies like storyboards inc. or frameworks would want to see so you can get representation. i would also push your concept work to be more inclusive of active environments like key art. if you want to see the kind of work that is more typical, check out craig mullins' work at goodbrush.com. the sketches for this dark crystal movie aren't usual because they're going off the original froud work, plus i wouldn't call them concept...i'd call them ideation. good luck to you and don't give up on the storyboarding companies - they are hardasses, but they will get you lots of work!
Durendal by Deuce Hexx	Jan 3rd, 2007 07:35:13 PM
I stand corrected. Touché. Also I double posted. I am a douche. Still... Froud is involved in this, so hopefully it will fit nicely into the Dark Crystal world.
froud by jedimindflayer	Jan 3rd, 2007 08:23:39 PM
does anyone know for certain that these are froud sketches? they look froudian, but there is no mention of any involvment on frouds website, and i'm not certain just how involved he is in this... i'm hoping alot.
Appreciate it occula by alienindisguise	Jan 3rd, 2007 08:25:21 PM
much thanks!!!
Boo-shay boo-shay boo-shay by Osmosis Jones	Jan 3rd, 2007 10:45:57 PM
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