deleted wrote:I admit, I've never heard of Ralph Bakshi, but now, I'm interested. When did he work on this BR stuff?
See, I didn't know about the BR project, which as you can see from the de Lauzirika quote from the chat transcript, didn't bear fruit. However, Bakshi has been a singular presence in animation ever since the late 1950s.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000835/
He is best known for his very adult animated features.
Fritz The Cat was a faithful adaptation of R. Crumb's sex and drugs-laced underground "comix," and earned the film an X-rating in its initial release. He followed up
Fritz with
Heavy Traffic (a semi-autobiography),
Coonskin, American Pop, Fire and Ice, and eventually
Cool World. He also did
Wizards, a movie that the entire family can enjoy, and the first film adaptation of
Lord of the Rings, which covered the trilogy from the beginning to the Battle of Helm's Deep.
He also did TV....he got his real start in the business as an animator at Terrytoons doing cartoons for CBS and the Captain Kangaroo show. He also discovered John Kricfalusi, and together they did the groundbreaking "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures."
Right now Bakshi is working on the cartoon-
Noir feature
The Last Days of Coney Island as an indie production. With advances in animation technology that works on off-the-shelf Macintosh computers, he and a small crew in New Mexico are working on this movie. It's still listed on IMDB as coming out in 2007, but fat chance of that.
Hope this helps...