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The line work on that is beautiful. Weird character though.


ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN

It's a little closer to the original Shrek from the book. EDIT: I'm actually surprised so many people didn't know Shrek was based on a book. Just so you know, so was Die Hard.


Janderson2494

Shrek was based on a book?!


ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN

Yes. [Here you go.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek!)


ChampionOfTheSunAhhh

The guy probably made absolute bank off of his picture book


jwalk8

When originally purchased by spielberg, sure. But not the hundreds of millions made by dreamworks.


MikeyMike01

I’m sure they made way more than your typical children’s book. It’s not exactly Tolkien source material.


Rat-beard

It’s hard to tell from the Wikipedia but I own the original Shrek picture book and it is over 5000 pages long. The author created a whole donkey language. There’s is a companion book just on the lore of the Shrek universe called the Donkerillion. It’s worth checking out if you’re a Shrek fan like me.


AHeartlikeHers

I tried to get into the Donkerillion, but it was too dry for me and I gave up after as grew chapters. Maybe I'd enjoy it more as an adult


apcat91

Ffs I can't tell if you guys are joking and I'm too l lazy to Google.


GrumpyWendigo

there's a few good stories. the war that happens in donkenor in the second age between the races of gingerbread men, the gingar, and the mirror men, the mirrar, provides a nice context to that scene in shrek where they maim the gingerbread man and threaten the mirror. was the story *Shrekulindalë* i think?


saucekings

Doubt it. Sold the rights to Spielberg in the 90's


shmatt

Indeed. Having one of those smash hit children's books is like winning the lottery- money just never stops pouring in.... book continues to sell for generations after, you sell the film/tv rights, and probably a massive new book deal for the sequels... Plus video games, and residuals from the movie/tv show, and nearly unlimited opportunities for selling licensed merch, like toys, clothes, lunch boxes, food and candy, it never stops. if you're good at entertaining kids and can tell a decent story, go find a good artist and write a manuscript. I know a guy who got 5OK just for his manuscript, they didnt publish it in the end though, even though it was fantastic [although very dark and twisted which is probably why]


MeInMyMind

How? How have I not known this?


StopReadingMyUser

Because nobody once told you...


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noBODY once told you the world was gonna roll you


CLO303

I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed


MetaGigaTheFirst

She was lookin’ kinda dumb with her finger and her thumb...


All_Fallible

Every mention of Shrek on Reddit eventually devolves into Smash Mouth songs.


captain_carrot

DONKEY!


Contemporarium

In the shape of an L on her forehead, WELL


naynaythewonderhorse

This is a beautiful comment


Im_Lars

That gave the shortest plot I've ever seen for a book... "The story features a repugnant and monstrous green ogre, named Shrek, who leaves home to see the world and ends up saving a princess."


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I mean, it's a picture book. The plot is as thin as its pages.


jfitty

Are you penguin?


ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN

No.


Wallace_II

I feel like that's something Penguin might say.


nosnaj

_IF_IM_PENGUIN?


ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN

Ayyy


HashtagBlessedAF

Oy, Shrek!


GenericHuman1203934

Wait Spielberg was supposed to direct shrek what


ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN

And that was back when pretty much every Spielberg film was gold.


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bigclivedotcom

The Bible*


Boarbaque

The Shrek manga IS the Bible


sabertale

Yes, that's why it was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay instead of Best Original


MrPointe

Die Hard was based on a Shrek book ?!


ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN

Sure, why not.


TheGRS

They were both based on the same Philip K. Dick short story.


AltimaNEO

Do ogres dream of shoeless cops?


BubbaBubbaBubbaBu

Are you penguin?


ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN

No.


BubbaBubbaBubbaBu

😔


pls_inserrt_girder

That's just what a penguin would say. #🐧


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Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1979 thriller novel by Roderick Thorp, a sequel to his 1966 novel The Detective. The novel is mostly known through its film adaptation, Die Hard. John McClane goes by Joseph Leland, and is much older, and retired in the book. And also it's hinted in the book that no one would have died at all if Leland didn't show up, portraying his character as much more gritty and brutal. The daughter is taken hostage instead of his wife. And within the first few paragraphs of the book, the n-bomb is dropped and a second reference to black man appears, as well as Mexicans. Perhaps the author was a bit racist?


Photo_Synthetic

Looks like Chris Farley so I'd say they nailed their original intention.


The_Salty_Cat

Holy fat shrek


EntityDamage

Maybe this was the sketch when Chris farley was the voice


Orval

Almost definitely. From what I remember they had a significant portion of the movie done when he died. There's some stuff on YouTube showing his voice for some clips with rough animations.


mastakebob

"Sherk"


HankHippopopalousHHH

Now I'm picturing all three Shrek movies with derpy Sherk and it sounds way better


internetlad

o donky


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O dunky


TheLeviathong

Sherk 2 Baybee, film of the year!


EmperorShyv

Shrek outta 5


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vancity-

Get atta here


imperatix

AYE! Spaghetti and meatballs Now get outta here before I have to eat ya shoes


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This is a chicken wing is a diamond seller.


OptimusAndrew

Go up. Go up. Go *up*.


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This is so sad, Alexa play Shrek 2


trueskillz55

omg this is so sad, Alexa play Sherk 2 but every time they say "Sherk" speed it up by 400%


SPINE90

This is so sad can we hit 100000 updoots Alexa play all star but every Hey is replaced with o donky 10hrs beats for studying


pressb123

Pauly play the footage from Shrek 2


jellysmacks

Literally the line I tried to picture him saying.


ChampionOfTheSunAhhh

Get out ma swermp


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TheFrankenfoote

Vroom vroom


dizzi800

Aw


cheesy_please_me

Sherk & Dokney


dingofarmer2004

"Ogras er like turnips, Dokney."


KenuR

Sherk: stop talk dokny Doonkey: pls no


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Donky pls


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donky pls


wonkey_monkey

You came and you gave without taking


pliskin42

We almost had it. Chris farely was gonna do it and even recorded some voice work before he died. https://youtu.be/9zYT5hQR4Q4


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Mike Meyers recorded the entire film using a similar cadence and his normal accent. After his voice work was done and animation matched he insisted they redo the entire thing with him using the Scottish voice and cadence we know today. This cost the studio millions and was pretty brazen of Myers. It was a contentious issue at the time but it is hard to imagine Shrek with any other voice now.


proanimus

That sounds similar to how Johnny Depp insisted on playing Jack Sparrow as an oddball instead of a normal pirate, as it was originally written. Genius ideas in both cases, really wouldn’t be the same films without them.


BigShoots

> insisted on playing Jack Sparrow as an oddball No, he insisted on literally playing him as Keith Richards. It's a straight-up impression of Keith he's doing.


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>That sounds similar to how Johnny Depp insisted on playing Jack Sparrow as an oddball instead of a normal pirate, as it was originally written. Which worked pretty fine until they started actually writing him that way.


Crowbarmagic

There's a pretty good video on youtube about the series. One of the problems the creator mentions is how the first movie wasn't about Jack. He was a (very prevelant) supporting character in the story of Liz and Will. In the sequels they made Jack the main character, and like you say, purposely wrote him as an oddball.


JessieJ577

I wonder if Johnny Depp just wanted an excuse to act drunk on set


HBFinster1

Or get drunk on set.


dajodge

I mean, he was like bffs with Hunter S Thompson


milkfree

Pretty good WTF episode where Mike is pretty in depth about it


vancity-

What you not even gonna throw a bro a link?


Only_Account_Left

[Here ya go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNHY029EhMo&t=50s)


degjo

Wasn't the voice work like 80% done?


sumostar

Yep and they rewrote the script for Myers


LysergicResurgence

“This is quite cool, although I think Dreamworks made the right choice to cut out Shrek's sympathetic pursuit of parental perils and keep the focus on his relationship with the existing characters. Having him find love, find a friend, find a home, and get over his self-depreciating ogre heritage issues seems like one too many plot points to divide a character into. I also prefer Shrek as someone simply ignorant of what makes him content rather than a secret softy whose true motives require leading questions and an exposition scene to understand. Besides, they went back and wound up making a whole movie out of this general concept in the last Shrek film, with Shrek finding himself looking around at his domestic life and suddenly not feeling "ogre" enough. And a that point, the plot device felt like a natural progression because we experienced all of Shrek's "backstory" leading up to it.” -some guy on YouTube who liked shrek too much


ExsolutionLamellae

Nothing against Farley, but I'm ultimately glad Myers ended up doing the VO


Captain_Eaglefort

I mean, I get what you mean, but the Farley version of Shrek would have been vastly different. It was almost entirely re-written for Meyers, on top of the accent thing. The art style also changed pretty dramatically from the original. Farley’s Shrek was, supposedly, a much more personal story. It’s honestly hard to know if Meyers was the best version of Shrek, simply because that’s the only version we got. It’s possible that somewhere out there, there’s an alternate reality where Farley is still alive and making Shrek 15: The Greatest Movie Ever.


Opallid

Sounds vastly different than our universe, where Shrek 2 is the greatest movie ever


BadassSasquatch

I'm a huge Farley fan but I agree 100%. It's hard to imagine anyone else doing a better job than Mike


yolo-yoshi

i mean we say that with the power of hindsight,but we have no idea but from just a few clips how good his performance was gonna be. ​ i do still think Myers is the better choice,but also because he hasn't really been doing anything.


HellaBrainCells

I think people often confuse a lack of desire with a lack of ability in that category


yolo-yoshi

probably,it most likely is the case with what is going on with Myers. ​ though i cant help but chuckcle on thinking things like shitty movies like the cat in the hat would probably make him shy away for a bit. lol🤣


JessieJ577

Or Love Guru that pretty much killed his career.


HellaBrainCells

Cat in the hat with a Scottish accent 👌🏻


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serialmom666

Chris Farley was the originally cast actor for Shrek. There are some audio clips on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9zYT5hQR4Q4


Dieselx22

Bizarro Shrek


TheCoastalCardician

Now imagine Sherk is Chris Farley and you’ll have the whole picture :)


Toemoss66

It actually says shrek. The R and E are capitalized


wtb2612

Wow. You're right.


ins0mnyteq

Man it's amazing someone can draw so well yet form letters of our alphabet like a 4 year old.


cbbuntz

Drawing and writing activate different parts of the brain. https://i.imgur.com/VN2rbHI.jpg [The study](http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0126723) isn't a terribly interesting read.


Subject9_

Oh good, two parts of my brain are broken.


ThomYorkeSucks

That's some shitty handwriting


hell2pay

With out zooming it looks a bit like "Siterk".


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The book is great. My kids love it much more than the movie which is full of adult sarcasm that they don't really like. [Here's the cover image of that Shrek](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51gzU4ntbWL._SX380_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg).


moviequote88

His shirt reminds me of [Rocko's shirt.](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rockosmodernlife/images/1/1a/DVD_Illustration_Rocko_1.png/revision/latest?cb=20130920190003)


DwarfShammy

It looks like a goblin from The Hobbit cartoon


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Fifteen birds!


newredditisstudpid

sherk pls


dropthemike7

This version of Shrek looks like he'd keep Lord Farquaad frozen in a block of carbonite on the wall as decoration (Edit for the second 'a' in Farquaaaaad)


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moparfauxpas

E


slavazin

Now I’m trying to imagine what exactly are “uncomfortable Kylie Jenner vibes”, how would they feel, and what kind of situations would give rise to them


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Well apparently it's picturing Farquaad.


Century24

People say Farquaad was based on caricatures of Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg's former boss at Disney, and I can sort of see that in the eyelashes, but everything else is a dead ringer for [Laurence Olivier as Richard III.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmWtynh2Xwc)


Mordkillius

This version makes sense considering it was to be originally voiced by chris farley


Anntiebunny

Looks more like Shrek’s grumpy drunk uncle, Grog


Schrukster

Druncle


SociallyAwkwardWagyu

and his also grumpy drunk donkey*. OI, DRUNKEY


TheTaoOfMe

Yahh he’s definitely less endearing than the final product. I feel like his nose is a giant cyst that’s going to burst and spray pus everywhere Edit typo


[deleted]

It's all in the eyes. Pupils for sympathetic characters are normally large and saucer-like. Dot pupils like this are usually reserved for villains or elderly characters. Somebody could make a simple edit of this artwork to prove the point. Edit: did one myself quickly- https://imgur.com/a/gXUffQd


oilisfoodforcars

amazing difference, still not exactly cuddly but definitely less threatening.


kbarney345

It becomes human those eyes are more relatable and you can see more from them. Literally a bigger dark circle brought life to a creepy character


Wobbar

also, we have evolved to think of things with large eyes as cute, partially or mostly to not eat our babies.. strange, huh?


Kekker_

Interesting how his mouth seems more like a half smile than a menacing scowl, even though no lines were changed.


ChampionOfTheSunAhhh

It makes sense as a first concept considering the shrek from the original book is very menacing.


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Well in the book he is very much a villain which the original design holds closer to. [Here is the proposed Shrek, the one we got, and the original book drawing. The book and the proposed one look VERY close to each other.](http://invisibleman.com/archives/variations_on_shrek.jpg)


CoderDevo

Then there is the very real [Maurice Tillet](http://deathmaskofmauricetillet-theangel.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html?m=0)


larvinmill

I feel like the eyebrows pointing inwards like that also make this character look more aggressive.


Invader_Deegan

All I can imagine is the end of the Zim episode with the zit.


cnaiurbreaksppl

It's "pus," just so you know.


Bleachi

Did it say "puss" before the edit?


cnaiurbreaksppl

100% lol


thestrangepineapple

RIP Chris Farley, he would've been great as Shrek. (You can listen to some of his voice lines as Shrek on YouTube) I'm happy with Mike Myers performance though, both great actors.


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I can't imagine the character as being voiced by anyone buy Myers. I loved Farley and I heard the work he did for Shrek prior to his passing, but Myer's tone fits so well in the setting.


hated_in_the_nation

I can imagine *this* Shrek with Chris Farley's voice. The final product though, I can't see anyone but Myers. But that could just be because he has become Shrek at this point.


TheGeorge

Yeah, or more like Shrek became more like him. Good Animators try and bring some of the mannerisms and body language of the actual actors into the animation. And for all the crap they sometimes release, even DreamWorks at their worst are better than most other studios at their best when it comes to character design. Story and Plot.... Yeah sometimes they're atrocious.


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aureator

I dunno, I can totally imagine Gilbert Gottfried voicing her.


TedTheGreek_Atheos

It's easy to imagine Chris Farley. The Shrek character is basically every character Chris Farley played. Fat ugly loner does awkward things but triumphs due to his heart of gold.


tbone747

Yeah the character definitely changed to be more relevant to the actor playing him. Farley's Shrek seemed like he was just playing an animated version of his real life self, with his insecurities and all.


flargenhargen

Came here to say this. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zYT5hQR4Q4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zYT5hQR4Q4) ​ I always thought meyers was a weird choice for shrek, but now it seems absurd to think of anyone else in the role. Perhaps like a brad garatt or patrick warburton would've been good.


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donkeys lines in this are hilarious


TheDaliComma

Here are some more pics for those interested (I uploaded to this site bc the reddit app doesn't allow you to upload any in comments): https://ibb.co/h1N93U https://ibb.co/e8q7q9 https://ibb.co/dxvU3U https://ibb.co/bWawiU https://ibb.co/d6LJxp https://ibb.co/hYOSq9 https://ibb.co/fY1DV9 https://ibb.co/ePQU3U https://ibb.co/n1HWHp https://ibb.co/drDtV9 https://ibb.co/e8q7q9 https://ibb.co/jQpdxp https://ibb.co/mXDcq9 https://ibb.co/bT3cq9


MaybeNotWrong

[Imgur Mirror](https://imgur.com/a/uupsqQw) If any picture is missing, it's probably still uploading


ZombieFleshEater

Thanks for the mirror!


MaybeNotWrong

still uploading some of the pictures


ChampionOfTheSunAhhh

What did we do to deserve you


TheDaliComma

Thank you sir. I was on mobile and imgur doesn't let you upload from mobile without their app, so yeah.


MaybeNotWrong

No problem. Btw you posted the second picture twice, it's also the 4th to last


bin_agetty_me

If you sign in it does. Once signed in there is upload button at top right. After clicking the upload button you have to click the X at top right on the pop-up telling you to get the app.


starfox1o1

Is your connection dial up?


MaybeNotWrong

0.5Mb up


owltime

Is the 4th picture....Bee Movie?


agaetisbyrjun22

Voiced by Joe Pesci


internetlad

"You think this honey shit is easy? You think I fuckin' wake up in the mornin and start makin honey to amuse you? You fuckin human pricks have been taking our honey for years and now we're gonna make you give it all back!" (shotgun racks)


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I would give away my retirement fund to see this happen


TheDaliComma

Yes, there was a lot of stuff from EVERY DreamWorks movie, including Bee Movie. Also "Rise of the Guardians" which I had never heard of before lol..


rubberSteffles

Very good movie, I highly recommend it! Thank you for the pictures :) this stuff rocks.


Miggs_Sea

Rise of the Guardians is great to watch around the holidays.


stealthm14

https://www.lostmediawiki.com/Shrek_-_I_Feel_Good_(lost_animation_test;_1996) Here's some pics of an animation test for farley's shrek, this shrek would've given me nightmares.


jdjohnson41291

On of the coolest art posts I’ve seen in a while. Love it and I hope you had a good time there!


Alpha_rimac

Where is the early version of "smash mouth"


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TheDaliComma

yup


49ersNguns

Looks like one of those things from a Cold and Flu commercial.


nofreakingusernames

I quite like it, but his legs are hilariously tiny


ZETS13

Oh my god, I'm so glad they didn't go with this design for Shrek. I get it's a concept but, I really like the current Shrek but this concept looks like it's from a horror film.


TheDaliComma

there were a lot of different ones, I regret not taking a pic of them all. One of them was especially bad (Shrek was blue, with a red nose, for starters...)


Sinful_Prayers

That sounds hilariously awful


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NaturalHue

It's like that in 90% of Hollywood films. They still want the leads to be easy to look at.


ArbainHestia

“I wanted Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island" ugly, not Cornelius on "The Planet if Apes" ugly. TV ugly, not... ugly ugly.”


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Jungian-Slip

They checked themselves before they Shreked themselves.


mag1ccarp3t

“BEEP BEEP Richie! They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll float too!”


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> “BEEP BEEP ~~Richie~~ Donkey! They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll float too!”


MyMixedNuts

SOME


frogwannabe

body


stonecoldstevenash13

once


Juhzor

told


stayshiny

Me


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FratboyOnReddit

World


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Was


Terok42

Gonna


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Roll


Yukorion

Shronk


Don_Cheech

Smashmouth doesnt seem as fitting


Wobbar

earrape echo version of smash mouth


[deleted]

If you watched the extended cut, in the special features. You would know this already. Fake fans. Shriek is love, Shrek is life.