I truely love this film and as someone stated, it is a masterpiece. Truely. As a very detailed artist my self, I can truely appreciate all the hardwork and detail that went into this film. Even the digital work and special effects, it's just stunning! Gosh! Even today it is and this film was produced in '95. I can't imagine how many hours they spent working on this. Digital work is very time consuming. Jim did just such an excellent job in everything. Just outstanding and intelligent too. A brilliant mind he has. Many things in the film that people see as "mistakes" were calculated and for good reason. I could go on hours about this film and I probably seem like I'm kissing Jim's butt, but I really do know what goes into creating such detailed works. And something of this scale, done so beautifully, it's just mind boggling to me.

As I've said before, pointing out mistakes is just pointless and idiotic really. Chances are Jim (and every other artist that examines their work) knows about them (and he even points some out in his commentary). The artist will always see at least 10 more mistakes than the audience will (if they see any). But things have to come to an end, the piece has to be finished. It took me a while to grasp this concept. I would always want to go back in change something, literally years would go by before I would finally varnish (sealing and there for finishing) the damn paintings because I always felt I needed to add something. Even when people said they were perfect. I still do this to some extent, I just hang them up now (they're always in site so I can pick out the "mistakes" a lot faster) so I can look at them and fix them as soon as I think I am finished. Every artist has the saying "the work is never really complete".

Jessica