who the hell is garrett gilchrist?

Anyway, we've moved house a bunch of times and I lost track of the book and haven't seen it for probably two decades now. But I think about it now and again, and had struggled to find it over the years, but I finally, finally got my hands on a copy of my own and i want to cry haha

I was afraid that maybe the art isn't as good as I remembered, being just a kid and all, but I cracked it open and nope, it hits me just the way it used to. Maybe even more now. It's so fucking pretty. Have some random pages:

In "Lux" - Tim Watts, Gary Dunn, Michael Schlingmann, Neil Boyle …

(Not to forget the direction by Framestore's Ian Spendloff, and animation by David Lochhead, Julien Van Wallendael, Carlos De Faria, and Dan Tomlinson, which takes us into 3D.)

Neil Boyle also did a lovely short in 2011 called "The Last Belle" (with Thief layout artist Roy Naisbitt and cinematographer John Leatherbarrow among others), directed the feature "Kensuke's Kingdom" (2023) and worked on "The Animator's Survival Kit" with "Thief and the Cobbler" master animator Richard Williams. (Neil's feature credits include Space Jam, and Sherlock Gnomes, which involved such notables as Gary Dunn, Tim Watts, Uli Meyer, and the always delightful John Stevenson directing.)

Framestore wanted a "Roger Rabbit" type look, and it got that sort of crew. It's worth saying this since they weren't credited for "Lux," and you went out of your way to credit them. Even IMDB doesn't bother with that list. You honor them by doing so, and with your own work that always looks very animated, and continues this legacy in some way. There aren't enough opportunities for animators these days, or what we now call "2D animators."

That genuine skill and spirit cannot and will not be replaced by automation and other such pretenders. It's also tough for independent creators on this nightmare of an internet right now. You are part of that tradition and a very talented and prolific artist. I always enjoy seeing what worlds you'll create next.

waves all this above my head YES. GOOD. THANK YOU.

It's time! a new chapter of Into the Inkwell has begun!

HUGE thanks to @lizzybeanbutt and @celebi9 who are helping with crowds and secondary characters ;v; there's a lot in this chapter...

The Star Wars Holiday Special Commercials RESTORED 1978

With two hours of bonus material. There are several good copies of The Star Wars Holiday Special circulating these days, but the better copies often don't include the commercials. In the 2000s, it was common to cut the commercials out of the special, which only stopped when in 2007 when Rifftrax released their commentary, based on the WMAR airing. The more famous WCBS airing does not circulate in good quality.

Here, the commercials have been restored using multiple sources overlaid and combined. There is also two hours of bonus material. This includes additional commercials (which are often related in some way), part of the news with Roger Mudd which aired before the special, four restored promos, part of "Flying High" which aired after the special, and the "Wasting Electricity" deleted scene from the cartoon, which has been restored from a source which was damaged by digital dirt removal.

From acclaimed film restorationist Garrett Gilchrist. Rick Klein (Fuzzy Memories TV) and Rob Richardson (RobatSea) have contributed rare material to this presentation. This is the result of months of research and frame by frame restoration work.

There are local commercials here from the airings on WMAR, WCBS, KIRO and KOIN, and one segment from WHIO. All of these airings (plus the WCCI, briefly) have been cleaned up, restored, and combined into one picture when possible. Hundreds of additional rare sources have also been found to restore some of the commercials, and provide the material for the post-show.

In this trailer, the restored and combined edit is compared to our best DVD source of the WCBS airing alone, or sometimes the WMAR airing for local commercials, or a typical bootleg of "A Special Sesame Street Christmas," or a typical WCBS bootleg for "Fighting the Frizzies."

The full special and Rifftrax are not included in this upload, but I expect there will be edits which include the Rifftrax. Some DVD versions of the special are split at the commercial breaks, so it will not be difficult to set up a playlist and watch the entire presentation in full as intended.

Thanks to Alex Douglas for the music mashup, and to many others for the additional video sources.

It took "Stranger Things" ten years to do two seasons' worth of episodes, and all the kids are forty now

If you were a Namcot (or other) game released by Bandai for the Nintendo Entertainment System, what would your unnecessary subtitle be?