More proof that character Concept art is better than their final versions-FREE BIRDS

It was October or November 2013.

I was sometimes at Safeway in Broadway Street, near the SkyTrain.

or was it in SURREY, or NEW WESTMINSTER?

I might be misremembering things since I was focused on the 10th grade in High School....

Anyway, I often saw advertisements for this film called FREE BIRDS from REEL FX.

When the film released to theaters in around Thanksgiving 2013, 

The film did absolutely poorly and got negative reviews from critics alike.

And to tell you the truth, I don't blame them.

The premise was already stupid anyway.

Two Turkeys find a Time Machine, go back in time to Late-Colonial era AMERICA,

And put forth a plan to put a permanent end to TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING DINNER.

7 years later, during the COVID-19 LOCKDOWN,

I read and I was surprised to find out that JOHN K. actually did some concept art for the film.

2018 Allegations aside, The moment I saw the concept art, I felt:

"WHY DID REEL FX DITCH THE ART IN FAVOUR OF THE RIO AESTHETIC!?"

FREE BIRD's concept art looks 10x better than the final film.

And they even converted the prototype concept art into RIGGED 3D MODELS just to show that it could still work.

So what the hell happened there?

COMPANY POLITICS. THAT'S WHAT!!!

That and there's a rule that in order for a CGI movie to succeed but you're not with UNIVERSAL STUDIOS whether it's DREAMWORKS or ILLUMINATION,

Your film has to be in the DISNEY Mold for the CG Models

no-ifs-ands-or-buts.

This mentality reeks of the 90s when many animation studio decided mandate a requirement to design their characters in the DISNEY mold in a vain attempt to unseat the MOUSE HOUSE but  that mantra made their films bomb in both the BOX OFFICE and with CRITICS.

So REEL FX probably decided to fire JOHN K. discard his designs

and went for these awful designs that looked like rejected characters from the RIO movie.

And the funny thing is that FREEBIRDS was susposed to premiere at NOVEMBER 2014 but then suddenly, 

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN was moved to back to it's intended MARCH 2014 release

While I haven't seen both films in their original release,

MR PEABODY AND SHERMAN did better with critics and audiences so who am I to judge.

And I guess time has been a bit forgiving for this film when it comes to how I see people on Social Media nowadays being a bit forgiving to FREE BIRDS....

But hey, JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING took a long time to finally get good reviews but his excuse was that competing with SPIELBERG'S E.T was poor timing on CARPENTER'S part in 1982.

Yes, I live in CANADA, in fact I still do,

And while I should have posted this on OCTOBER for my fellow Canadian readers,

Many of my readers are from the USA, and THANKSGIVING falls on NOVEMBER for them,

what with traditions, MACY'S PARADE, & of course for us consumers:

BLACK FRIDAY & CYBER MONDAY.

So that's why this Post is here on this day of November instead of OCTOBER.