The Original Shrek Test from 1995
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- Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025
- Shrek started out as a dark edgy low budget film. This animated short was "kind of" my production design. Years later Shrek became a big budget blockbuster and found its place in animation history.
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@@3-5-9-0 when an almost 30 year old vhs tape that most likely wasn't properly preserved resurfaces on the internet don't expect it to be perfectly clean
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DreamWorks ugly sonic be like:
@@3-5-9-0the footage
Is cursed.
It’s so surreal actually seeing the original animation test in full after so many years of it being talked about on the internet.
It’s like a dream
@@HelloPersonReadingThis.Used to read bird up magazines
@@HelloPersonReadingThis.Exactly
I thought this was some footage that we all already saw
Not to mention how insane it was that it was gonna be motion captured.
I usually like when 3D characters look incredibly goofy, but they definitely made the right call with Shreks' final design
😂😭😭
It's creepy but I love it (even more than final design)
Exactly mate
This early test design is a lot more in tone with the children’s picture book. He’s ugly, but he’s happy and proud of his ugliness.
old design even looks much more detailed and complex compared to the new one, and personally I think it fits the universe better. Idk why they decided to make it much more simplified
born too late to explore the world, born too soon to explore the universe. born at just the right time to see shrek lost media
born at the right time to explore the internet
“Born too late to explore the world” he says as he’s probably never left his home city let alone “the world”
@@rxc4350 it means the worlds already been explored smh
@@jellylemonade1655 except the ocean
Finally it has been found
I think we just got introduced to shreks father
"He tried to eat me!"
Imagine going through the trouble of birth and your parents want to eat you
Actually; that actually sounds like a good idea.
@@FrenchFryCheese04 Hamsters be like
@@zakariya25 this is now canon
The amount of changes from the original test to the final product is insane
smash mouth did it right
Ayo profile pic?🤨
This comment had me rollin'
the inclusion of popular songs still stayed the same ig
The changes were necessary, that shit looks creepy .
cheers for the no longer lost media
Cheers mate. 🍻
Cheers
Cheers🍺
Cheers
Cheers! 🍷
I’m still in awe that Shrek used to look like that
You should see the book that the movie is based on. This Shrek looks almost like the one in the book!
this shrek is 100x better than the movie version since its fucking horrifying like a ogre should be
@@spaghettisauce445 I've never seen someone miss the point of a film so hard before
@@LewdSCP1471A I think you're the one missing the point, dude.
@@LewdSCP1471A Making shrek uglier would make the point of the movie extra evident tho
Old shrek looks like those bacteria in the soap commercials tbh
😆😅
hit the nail on the head
This is one of the biggest lost media moments in history
you said it, niko!
Couldn’t agree more
From finding the Wicked Witch Sesame Street Episode to all the Shrek lost media, this has been wild
Why
How long have people been looking for it?
I can’t believe after years of looking for this lost Shrek test footage, it’s finally been found. Wow. Thank you so much for releasing this!!! Shrek fans are very appreciative of this.
No we’re not 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴 speak for yourself
@@isaidwhatIsaid86
I’m a shrek fan and I appreciate this
@@isaidwhatIsaid86yes we are
I'm one those fans who have been wanting this
@@isaidwhatIsaid86 we are
Let's talk about the actual content itself now: what exactly was the thief's plan? Once he dropped in all he could do was dangle there like an idiot
He probably planned on swinging himself toward Shrek and shanking him if he didn't give his loot. Unfortunately for the thief, this was Shrek.
Shrek 4 foreshadowing?
"give me ur loot fat boy"
@@crimsonlanceman7882*Shrek grabs mugger by the neck* "AHAHAHA"
"Ahh, bite me!"
His plan was to scare him into giving him his valuables by getting the jump on him, also in the original script he just starts insulting Shrek and his mom to death lol
I'm so glad we had the "somebody once" instead of "I feel good"
ITS CALLED ALL-STAR >:[
@@RadiumMuncher I mean for the Shrek Introduction, not the song's name
I feel good is actually called "I got you" so this misspelling is actually pretty spot on if it would have been on purpose @@RadiumMuncher
That was more of Garfield’s song anyway 😂
honestly both songs fit shrek quite well
It isn't only disturbing because of how it looks and how he dances to that song. It's because i feel like i've stepped into an alternate universe where this was the official movie.
Yes exactly I get this same feeling i am so glad we didnt get this whatever this is....
And i wanna go to that alternate universe
@@DreamerOfTheSouthFr, what's it like there? 😂
horrifying
@@headlessdisco730 And dreamworks would go bankrupt
It feels so surreal to finally see it.
Nareszcie moża zobaczyć cały test
It feels soo werid that it's not the screenshots i used to watch...
siema wojti, zgadzam sie, zajebiście to wkońcu zobaczyć
My question is how is everyone aware of this and omg it’s been found!
I never knew there was a search… 🤷🏻♂️
ikr this is crazy
It's crazy to me that a character design can look like some generic, bottom of the bargain bin crap but then during the same project be refined to become one of the most instantly recognisable characters in the world.
I wouldn’t say generic, but for what it was, if they went with this design over the one they chose in the end Shrek wouldn’t be as big of a phenomenon as it is today. It seems initially the project took a dark and edgy tone compared to the lighthearted comedy of the final release.
Well shrek in this one was actually designed after the original book's illustrations
@@MCWiirdo I would say it's at least generic compared to the final design. This one is basically what you would expect for a monster, whereas the final one still resembles a monster but has a humanity to it which I think ties in really well with the general message of the story.
It is the difference in (not) having a real creative design and marketing team that does market research / focus groups.
A lot improved from 95 to 2000 in cgi. This here is like really good ps1 cutscenes.
My late mother loved Shrek. She would have been horrified by this version.
Who doesn’t love shrek?!
What she late for?
@@LenovoKravitz stop.
@@LenovoKravitzMade me chuckle, but that’s effed up.
@@PollenbeeBoya meeting in Heaven
This early test feels so uncanny to me. The bad audio, the character designs, the fact that no one is around in this seemingly huge city, and the 90's cgi all just make me feel like I've seen this exact test before.
Here comes the 'scared of empty hallways, feels like I've been here before but it's scarrey somehoww etc' zoomer children
You just want it to be uncanny. You watch a lot of creepypasta or iceberg explained vids innit?
@@alegomanYTPswhat is wrong with you, like, who hurt you?
@@alegomanYTPsthat from what I remember is literally a human feeling
@@dale3797 shut up loudmouth
The movement of Shrek dancing is pretty impressive for 1995 considering how the humans in the first Toy Story were plastic-looking and pretty stiff in comparison.
I think they used motion capture for this and that's why it looks good
@@dunderguy yeah that makes sense.
@@oneinathousand2156 And honestly it does look motion capture.
@@dunderguyYes. There were planning to use CGI motion capture for the movie.
So this is most likely motion capture.
@@dunderguy Imagine the honor of being the first guy to play as shrek, I wonder if he even remembers what he got to be a part of
This looks absolutely terrifying. I'm glad the final movie turned out so well
It looks like one of those PS1 franchise games to cash in but put no effort in it xD
@@Vittrich makes me think of PS1 Haggard
@@earthboundisawsome I just looked it up. Holy f that went wrong in a whole other dimension 😂
@@Vittrich oh yeah that's a good ole meme right there
Me too.
This is like... some nightmarish mix of Wallace and Gromit with Grinch
Yall dont even know the amount of searching there was for this 38 second clip of Shrek dancing. Thank you for releasing this.
meanwhile theres me who never knew about this, nor seeing any screenshots about this but reading trought the comments i feel i missed some big mistery lol
@@horeckilarion3310 there's even more lost media to find. Like a whole cut of the Shrek movie with Shrek having a Canadian accent.
@@reggiethenuclearbombwell there were also sound snippets of Chris Farley as shrek with a few storyboard scenes, considering how much Farley actually did for the movie I’d love to see the rest of it
@@AJV196 ye like the campfire scene
i already seen this before it got "found"
It’s so surreal to actually see this thing in full after mainly just having still images lol. Thank you so much from uploading this, this means so much to the lost media community.
You said it PigPig
Oh, sup
PIG PIG WASGUUD
And that's why getting shreked was bad.
I love how in the end this was another Johnny Quasar scenario: people went haywire over finding this animation test and then suddenly out of nowhere someone who worked on the project is like “oh uhh yeah I have it somewhere lol.” Nevertheless I’m quite glad this sees the light of day. God bless Chris Farley! ❤️
Yeah it’s wild, the guy who leaked the Johnny Quasar video was his voice actor
Maybe some NDA expired.
@@JakkoWarner It was out of nowhere too, all people had were like 8 seconds of footage and went on a goose chase for more leads only for one day the whole test animation to appear in front of their RUclips feeds, myself included!
@@B00MB0X Exactly! I remember hearing that only a few people in the world had it and thinking we would never see the whole thing then one day there it is on my feed
This is like if we found a fragment from a Plato text and we just tried to make sense of it for years and talked about it ad nauseum and then Plato walked into the room with a bathrobe and a cup of coffee and went "What the fuck are you doing in my library?"
A remake of this should be in shrek 5
Fr
that well be cool
It'd be cool too
Maybe in the intro
Nah
It's insane to think this was originally conceived as a "low budget film" and it came out as one of the most influential movies of all time, animated or otherwise.
Lmfao you’re just making stuff up
$60,000,000 budget says otherwise
“WAS”
maybe read the full comment and don’t skim it like a news article
@@bleepblock2177 you forgot to switch back to your main
@lucre113 are u dumb? That's the final movie, not this og version! They put more budget into the final one. Research before u call cap on anyone.
After all of this time, it was finally found and released for everyone to see what Shrek used to look like. And the rest is history. Thank you so much for sharing such an important part of animation history. While it wasn't liked back then, it is something cool to look at how it all started.
i already seen it before it got "revealed"
Exactly, it feels crazy to finally be watching the whole thing after so many years of just hearing about it!
@@player70477of course you did 😂
well there are shrek books to see how he looked before the movies
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The guy that licensed “All-Star” from smash mouth deserves a raise
It actually was Dreamworks' founder
The i feel good song was good but over used
to be honest walking on the sun would've been better, thats the best of smash mouth right there, although it was a bit dark so i see why they didint put it in
This might not be a story interesting enough for sharing, but the first song in the end credits for Shrek is an original song titled ‘Stay Home’ by sELF. It was originally meant to be the opening song for Shrek when he’s having his daily routine. I actually love the song ‘Stay Home’ more than All Star because it describes Shrek’s former personality of not needing anyone but himself. But I think Jeffrey Katzenberg wanted to use All Star from the very start of production, so the song was abruptly cut one day out of the blue and moved to the credits. Though I can understand Katzenberg’s decision. All Star definitely gave Shrek one of the most iconic opening scenes
While it may be dated by todays standards, the fact that this was made around the same time as Toy Story, while looking this detailed is mind blowing.
eh "dated" isint a good negative descriptor for art, tons of 1970s interiors and buildings are considered "dated" by architects but it sure as hell looks a lot better than whats being built now, the "dated" stuff is better than whats new
@@circleinforthecube5170 lol
You know, I was always confused as to why DreamWorks workers considered working on Shrek as a punishment considering how beloved that film series has become... And now I know why. It's so wild to think that THIS could've been what we got instead of the masterpiece we actually ended up getting.
To think this is the dreamworks gulag😂
They didn’t say the workers considered it punishment, they said they were working on the movie AS punishment
@@AyTJaythat's the same thing
The same was kinda true for The Lion King.
Many animators at Disney wanted to work for Pocahontas instead but what movie turned out to be a masterpiece while the other was kinda underwhelming? Yeah.
WARRIOR APES ❤
I believe children would have had nightmares had Shrek been depicted this way.
I agree
And you could understand why Dreamworks hated this version of Shrek
@@GreenTomas2372but the version is based of the 1990 shrek book
So, this would've been Shrek if talented animators who somehow failed while producing Prince of Egypt hadn't been punished to work on this project. Wild.
How they failed? PoE is the pinnacle of western animation.
@@AhmedAli-kt1ezAnimators who got booted from Prince of Egypt for one dumb reason or another ended up working on Shrek as some kind of punishment. Or so the story goes.
@@AhmedAli-kt1ezas the comment before mine said, PoE was set the be THE MOVIE of the decade but it flop so hard it basically killed Dreamworks 2D animation team and Shrek ended up becoming this cultural bedrock of a movie so in a roundabout way the “nobodies” from Shrek beat their “prestigious” colleagues
@@willypro4949
Well if you think financial sucess is the only form of success. PoE will have a better legacy, shrek will be slowly forgotten.
@@willypro4949IF THERE WAS OK
That's horrifying ngl still empressive they can make such a good motion movements in the character in 1995
Side topic but our government always been 50+ years ahead of the general public on technology. With how fast tech evolves I'm sure they are touching 100+ years ahead. If you rewatch shrek it's a tale of forced immigration and capture with lord farquade land is basically a communist country and they also sneaked in the facebook logo in before facebook was released. Movies and news are #1 propaganda machines
yeah its kind of uncanny when he slides while dancing. it freaks me out man.
At that time, I already had Dragon Ball Z👀
I think someone said it was motion capture idk though
That's the kind of historic moment where you want to be thankful on so many levels but the main thing you can think about right now is "i was goddamn here".
Actually the holy grail of animated lost media. Thanks for so much. That's an end, a great end.
wow it was that big of a deal? I had no idea
@@priwncessyes indeed it was, people have been trying to find this animation or basically just anything about the Chris Farley version of Shrek for YEARS. Up until a year or two ago, all we had were the storyboard snippets that were a couple seconds long. I remember watching plenty of videos about this topic when I was younger about 5 or 6 years ago (may have been possibly sooner my apologies). Amazing how far the community has come to find more footage of the original film (Pre-Mike Myers ver.)
XDDD
this is nowhere near the end, theres still a high quality version to be found, as well as the last part of the cut where he sings to the camera some more
@@jose-qt8pc absolutely fascinating!
Seriously thank you so much for finally releasing this footage. Shrek means so much to so many people and this is a very fascinating piece of animation history finally released to the public and preserved for many years to come!
I actually found a couple of snippets of this animation last year and I posted them onto this account that I'm using to type in this very comment.
It's finally found!
And it is found before this year is over
And you blatantly stole and reuploaded this video on your own channel too because "I just wanted to reupload this clip to my channel for more people to see." this isn't 2007 anymore, you can't just download a video you saw on albinoblacksheep to upload for your friends at school. That's not even a fair comparison, sorry. You can't just download someone elses youtube video and upload it on your own youtube channel.
filthy reuploader!
@@itsbort Well at least I gave the original uploader credit and a link to the original video, unlike SSSniperWolf.
I never thought there would be a day when this test animation would be released fully. And yet here we are! Thank you so so much!
This would’ve been a horror movie if it’d been released in theaters.
For such a primitive technology at the time, Motion Capture did wonders for this short animation. It's really nicely animated
This is actually really impressive for 1995.
0:10 ahhhhh
Actually insane how many major changes were made and the fact that this test got fully released after all of these years, HAHA! So amazing!
I like how Shrek looks like more the book shrek.
Wait this is the first time ever being released? Why did it take so long
shrek be looking like the bootlegs they made in the future lol
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I work in a tech software company and I can tell how much a product can change before hitting production. This is a clearly example, some of the changes can go for good and some for bad. In this case they made the proper choices.
This design would have never reached the same success as the final version, but I do find it endearing in a way. Kinda reminds me of my dad and how he would slingshot me, screaming, over the rooftops of our village.
Shrek's face after letting go of the thief at 0:26 is absolutely terrifying.
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His face at 0:25 tho 💀
He looks like a freaking ogre
@@Togalord why is bro side eyeing me💀💀
@@cosmosofinfinity that’s the point
Wow big props to the animators who made this. I never wanna see this again, but seriously big props to the animation team who made this.
I never wanna see this again.
No wonder they orignally called it 'getting shreked' when they originally took people away from other projects. What an inspirational turn around. Its great when you see what hard work can create when things look destined to fail or not succeed. Ive said it before somewhere but a real big shoutout to all involved with the original shrek.
Bros moving like Sid, the science kid
Really impressive for 1995. So happy this finally got released to the public! Thank you so much!
What a huge release! Thank you so much for giving us a chance to preserve this footage. It's really important to the story and production of Shrek.
Thank you so much for this! Your contribution is such a huge part of animation history and I’m glad it’s now available for those to see
ayo rickdasquirrel didn't expect to see u here
Its not private anymore
Yeah
This pairs quite well with the leaked audio of Farley's Shrek from 8 years ago or so. As awesome as "Shrek" is, I kinda want to see what that other movie was like.
Holy shit after 10 years we finally found it
1995 was almost 30 years ago
@@GreenLeafUponTheSky they are talking about the search, about 10 years ago people have been trying to find this lost footage
Old Shrek looked too human. From the facial expressions to the way he moves. He moved just like a human, it doesn't feel like we are watching an ogre.
But ogres don’t exist, so that description is arbitrary, especially considering that the design we ended up with has more human proportions as opposed to the exaggerated style of this early test.
Wdym? This one was less human
if anything, the final design is more human looking
I can still hear shrek say "ah bite me"
This is like weirdly perfect animation, the music at the started, the atmosphere, lonely but cozy, and the amateur editing touch. Very nostalgic too
It's extremely atmospheric in a way the shrek films weren't.
And the way that it looks like a DVD rip
WARRIOR APES ❤
It’s cringe
When I did some research on the search for this fascinating piece of animation history, I knew one day we would see the original Shrek test. Thank you so much for uploading this!
Now I'm extremely curious as what Shrek would've been as a "dark, edgy, low budget film"
This is HUGE!
Read the original book that Shrek was based off of.
There's the Xbox game
shrek life 2 beta is dark and gritty
This is not low budget. This was cutting edge 3D animation at the time.
@@lakshaykochhar6799from what I can gather of that book, it’d be the same as the movie up to rescuing Fiona and then it would end there, and the difference would be that Fiona was always an ogre and they married immediately.
0:32 Me walking to the movies to watch Shrek 5 when it comes out
Me too
This is downright bizarre, and just about as creepy as something so "fun" can get.
It's the type of ad that would play when I was a kid, and I'd have to shut the TV off (or run out of the room).
WARRIOR APES ❤
Lmaoooo
Damn, I'm glad I ain't the only one who got scared because of such adverts
This is like with Johnny Quasar where nobody could find a way to uncover the lost short, only for someone who worked on it to suddenly upload it on the internet.
This feels like a fever dream
Go back to work and make a full movie out of it, NOW! This is gold!
Well it’s safe to say I’m glad that they took a different approach to Shrek’s design..
He looks like the potato guy in the starlight music video
After this many years im more used to this design
It FINALLY happened! An absolutely historic moment for the ages, thank you for sharing this ancient relic of lost media
This was the last thing I was expecting to see on Black Friday
Yep. Really glad we got it though
Yeah
omg the spongebob clip guy, wasn't expecting finding you here lol
I didn't expect to find you here.
fully believe I would be a serial killer today if this was the shrek I grew up with
Holy crap, I never thought I’d see this found! Thanks to who found and uploaded it!
Feels satisfying to see the full version of the concept, really neat animation
Why do I keep watching this over and over again
I find it funny how donkey basically never changed throughout all 3 versions of this film
Imagine what the entire film would look like if they released it before 2001.
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I use to pray for times like this
So glad whoever made this was fired
Did some digging. This is the RUclips channel of Barry E. Jackson, an artist and animation industry veteran who did indeed work on Shrek.
This is the real deal.
Legend
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And thus, the quest has come to an end. The full short of Farley Shrek has been found after many years of just having screenshots, audio, a storyboard and some low-quality footage.
This is literally the only lost media I ever cared about, so it feels good (no pun intended) to finally see it in action.
Same, but apparently there is some more footage 👀, the full test animation is 2 or 3 minutes long, hopefully we will see that some time soon 😯
@@SMF381 I'm sure they are talking about what we saw in that storyboard. Maybe they only got to animate those 38 seconds.
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I can’t believe it’s finally been found!! Super surreal to see this full animation. It’s wild.
This is cool but i really wanna see how lord Farquod looked like
YEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much to the people at Zoom Art Studio for giving us this! You guys marked your place In internet history!
Now I understand why the animators were sent to work on Shrek like it was a gulag
rip chris farley
I would be totally down for a creepy, Tim Burton esc rendition of Shrek with this character model. It's just so creepy it'd be a shame for it to go to waste
No more lost media?
I feeel good! cheers!
I can’t believe that after a year of finding the clips used for this, we finally get to see what the actual footage looks like.
the full scene finally found now all we need is the original audio
I'm so glad we exist in the timeline where we got the Shrek we did
This feels like a fever dream. I never imagined I’d see a crude early rendition of Shrek dancing to “I Feel Good”. It’s a wonder that this ever became the incredible series that it did.
i actually can't believe i've managed to live to a point where this shrek test animation has finally been found, THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!
Lol
sup
mason ❤️ wasn’t even looking for you but you always come back to me boo boo bear
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6 replies lol
Audio was clearly dubbed over for the RUclips video judging by the audio quality, but at least this is finally out there after all these years.
Yeah, you can hear a mouse clicking at 0:09 so this has been dubbed over.
Was probably a temp audio track before the final one was made
0:12 in 1995 shrek is weird
The song or the animal?
Shrek isn’t an animal
I can't believe I lived to see this moment. The long lost footage finally available for everybody.
This version of Shrek would’ve been an implicit nightmare material, where you can’t pinpoint what it was that you watched way back in your childhood, but just a glimpse of crude cgi and probably a different song that you remembered wrong.
0:24 so this is the "bite me" that you apparently could lip-read in the silent version
I think Mike Myers Shrek is pretty scared of the 1995 test! lol
I find it really interesting how beta Shrek feels more in line with the Shrek from the old picture book, being more comically exaggeratedly ugly and also being a lot more unhinged and devil-may-care
What getting Shrek'd really looked like.
this must have been terrifying for most punished animators in 1995
They need to add this shrek design as a Easter egg in the 5th shrek movie
Good thinking
@@TheZoomArtStudioyou hinting me he is gonna be in the 5th movie 😏
@@TheZoomArtStudiojk
@@TheZoomArtStudiobut seriously what if he is going to be a background character 😮
This looks way too good for 1995
It looks like 1998 or 1999 way ahead of its time
The lighting is really advanced
and also, remember the fact, they mention in the shrek 1990's vhs ebay description, this animation test was made in a GARAGE of a worker, obviously not only a single worker worked in this test animation but also, alot of workers more worked in this test animation in a garage of a worker of the film
1996 or 1997
Wow! Thanks for uploading this! The same guy obviously did Shrek and the robber's voice, but the production materials I saw with the storyboards listed Tom Kenny playing the robber for some reason.
Fun fact: During the old shrek scene in forever after, shrek mimics the walking dance shown here on a similar looking village.
He ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
If this was released as the actual Shrek movie, it would have been the cause behind WW3.