The Thief and the Cobbler
The movie The Thief and the Cobbler is a 2D animated unfinished passion project by Richard Williams, holding the record of the longest produced animated movie. The animation was incredibly expensive and was suppose to be Richard's attempt of creating the greatest animation ever. However due to lost of time, money, and facing competition from the opposing movie Aladdin by Disney, a production studio offered to edit to movie down to whatever was completed and release it in 1992, resulting in poor and almost nonexistent reception. The movie was still worked on independently after its release and the movie was release again in 1993, 1995, 2013, and most recently 2023 with retouches, newly finished scenes, and adding in the unfinished animations and storyboards as part of the film.
While most of the cast and artists are now dead and the movie is permanently unfinished, what is shown is genuinely immaculate animation that could have easily lived up as one of the greatest animated movies of all time.
