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New concept artwork and ideas for the film has been added to the site!
Including one of the early ideas: Spirit is taken to a mining town, where he is later used to pull coal carts underground.
The Mines
Spirit and some other horses get stuck in the mine and though the others loose hope, Spirit does not give up and tries to cheer them up by telling them about his homeland.
"This scene would have taken place moments after the images in the dark mine, and you can feel the change in mood. Ultimately the story was judged to be simply too painful to watch, and people in the studio began to refer to it as "Schindler's Horse." "
~ Paul Shardlow
The Frontiersman
The Frontier Man is a early concept of Little Creek, the only kind human Spirit meets. He saves Spirit from the forest fire and later gains enough trust from the horse to be the first to ride him.
Broken In
Another story concept - Spirit (now broken in) is used as the Colonel's mount.
Spirit was in some way going to be an American version of "Black Beauty", passing from human to human and being used for different jobs.
THE FIGHT
One of the old concept ideas was that Spirit was going to fight another stallion
For more info click on the link below!
https://www.animationsource.org/spirit/en/custom/&id_film=16&nump=9438
Also click on the "Production" page link to see more Spirit artwork!
https://www.animationsource.org/spirit/en/custom/&id_film=16&nump=9273
Take Note: In this storyboard Spirit appears to have a white blaze in the last panel. Possibly the inspiration for Spirit.Jr
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Very cool concept ideas!  Spirit was so close to being a ''Black Beauty set in America'' story. Although I find the early idea of the mines and pit horses kind of hard to imagine, it would have been something different from Dreamworks - and the Frontiersman would have been a very interesting character to have! |
| May 06, 2018 | ||
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Really interesting and beautiful concept art! Really nice job, keep up
the good work  |
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