the same people that shit on rotoscoping usually think calarts are the peak of design and that AI needs to be banned, don't take these people seriously
More like the people who idolize the Richard Williams school of turboautistically detailed animation. You see a lot of these types shitting on TV animation without understanding it.
>Tfw we will never get the rest of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings cartoon
Disliked the look of the film as a kid because the vhs transfer was pretty bad and made everything look kinda mushy. The blue ray transfer opened my eyes.
It's really not "good" rotoscoping by traditional standards, but the uncanny weirdness of the botched effort is part of the charm. It's like an accidental art film.
dont know shit about his lord of the rings stuff but i really like wizards, american pop, and fritz. i also remember seeing the butter battle book special he did as a kid. seuss himself said it was his favorite adaptation and called bakshi himself to do it and bakshi and him worked on it but bakshi didnt like animating kids stuff and only did it because he got to work with seuss. too bad he doesnt make animation anymore he has a very distinct and cool style.
The only way Bakshi could get the movie made was by promising to keep the costs as low as possible. He outsourced everything to the lowest bidders and there was notoriously poor communication between the different studios. IIRC the studio in charge of the rotoscoping didn't even get proper instructions for filming the guide footage, and a lot of times they just faked the effect by cranking up the contrast.
It wasn't just cranking up the contrast.
It was a specific effect called Solarization, where you end up with an image that is partially inverted, partially properly exposed.
dont know shit about his lord of the rings stuff but i really like wizards, american pop, and fritz. i also remember seeing the butter battle book special he did as a kid. seuss himself said it was his favorite adaptation and called bakshi himself to do it and bakshi and him worked on it but bakshi didnt like animating kids stuff and only did it because he got to work with seuss. too bad he doesnt make animation anymore he has a very distinct and cool style.
Fun fact: Ralph Bakshi spent most of the film's purported budget on his Amway upline becoming the number one Tupperware salesperson for New Jersey West in 1977.
>ralph bakshi >perverted israelite who draws cartoons of extremely israeli men diving headfirst into blonde aryan veganas while rapping Black folk sell everyone drugs
oh no
and nothing of value was lost
Some people shit on rotoscoping but I find it mesmerizing to look at. Wish it didn't die out so quickly.
I wish for world peace but you do you.
Yeah, I wish Sam would go back to making actual productions too.
You have twisted my words for your own foul ends. "WordSpinner" I name you. Ill news is an ill Nick.
It added an eerie otherworldly feeling to it. They should bring it back.
for me, spine of night scratched that itch
>They should bring it back.
they did:
the same people that shit on rotoscoping usually think calarts are the peak of design and that AI needs to be banned, don't take these people seriously
More like the people who idolize the Richard Williams school of turboautistically detailed animation. You see a lot of these types shitting on TV animation without understanding it.
I know people that shit on all three because some morons just love to shit on anything and everything.
>t. my ass
>It added an eerie otherworldly feeling to it.
I think you mean uncanny valley.
Why can't he have his own view on it instead of using cliches to sound smart like some wiener sucking pseud?
Disliked the look of the film as a kid because the vhs transfer was pretty bad and made everything look kinda mushy. The blue ray transfer opened my eyes.
It's really not "good" rotoscoping by traditional standards, but the uncanny weirdness of the botched effort is part of the charm. It's like an accidental art film.
>Bakshi
>accidental art film
>accidental
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wtf
on this note,
and here, yall should watch coonskin it's great
If they had just done it for the Nazgul for that effect, sure. Instead it just comes across as very cheap.
The only way Bakshi could get the movie made was by promising to keep the costs as low as possible. He outsourced everything to the lowest bidders and there was notoriously poor communication between the different studios. IIRC the studio in charge of the rotoscoping didn't even get proper instructions for filming the guide footage, and a lot of times they just faked the effect by cranking up the contrast.
It wasn't just cranking up the contrast.
It was a specific effect called Solarization, where you end up with an image that is partially inverted, partially properly exposed.
It looked terrible.
Bakshi did it because he was a hack.
Except for the mains, most of it's barely even real rotoscoping though. They just hand-tinted footage of actors in costume.
Ralph is a hack but i enjoy the look his work has
Same
watch this. also the creator has some other clips on his youtube channel.
cast is shit but the art looks nice
I always thought it was a lazy way to animate movements.
fire and Ice is his best rotoscope imo. it looks really good.
dont know shit about his lord of the rings stuff but i really like wizards, american pop, and fritz. i also remember seeing the butter battle book special he did as a kid. seuss himself said it was his favorite adaptation and called bakshi himself to do it and bakshi and him worked on it but bakshi didnt like animating kids stuff and only did it because he got to work with seuss. too bad he doesnt make animation anymore he has a very distinct and cool style.
the best parts of the bakshi lotr was the part he basically failed to rotoscope at all. the orcs and nazgul are fricking gloriously not-animated.
Don't remind me.
I love the Bakshi version no matter the variation in quality from scene to scene.
Fun fact: Ralph Bakshi spent most of the film's purported budget on his Amway upline becoming the number one Tupperware salesperson for New Jersey West in 1977.
His Hobbit film is extremely comfy.
That was Rankin Bass, not Ralph Bakshi
Oops. My bad. Great movie though.
it was crap
it's called a.i.
Dude, it'll be one of the first Fan-made AI "Project Completion" productions, along with Jodo's Dune.
>ralph bakshi
>perverted israelite who draws cartoons of extremely israeli men diving headfirst into blonde aryan veganas while rapping Black folk sell everyone drugs
oh no
and nothing of value was lost
Okay groomer
Post the funky Balrog