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Fire and Ice
1983 · Film · 82 min
Directed by Ralph Bakshi
AnimationFantasyScience FictionAdventure
The villainous Nekron and his mother, Queen Juliana, plot against the human race from their frigid fortress. Creating mass destruction with huge glaciers, mother and son incur the wrath of Larn, a warrior whose entire village was destroyed by ice. When Nekron's underlings kidnap the beautiful Princess Teegra, Larn sets out to rescue her, assisted by the fierce and enigmatic Darkwolf.
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> The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director.
Although rotoscoping is a venerable technique, the results we're looking at with this service don't bear much stylistic resemblance to early works like Fire and Ice or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (or more recent rotoscoped works like The Little Mermaid either). If they did, I'd have given them a pass on the 'anime' claim, even though calling the Disney house style — or Bakshi's — 'anime' is still a stretch.
The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director.
Logically, very similar during production to how Avatar was made, but doing the rendering "by hand" (and being unable to change the camera after capture).
Pretty impressive results given the budget and time requirements.