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it was a box office flop, and having a second rate illustrator like Frazetta on board didn't help either

I know it, was a rotoscope technique, that's why so amazing literally they do 2 movies, because in that times there no was motion capture or capture softwares, just sweat and tears 😊

I love the actress of Teegra screaming 😱😂 4:41

I wish there were more of these. I am trying to make my youtube series using same technique but with softwares.

I didn't see this movie when it first came out but I did see it in the early 90s and was just blown away with the life like movement. It reminded me so much of He-Man when I saw it since He-man used about a dozen or so rotoscoping scenes but thinking this movie was like the epitome of this form of animation.

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He-Man was also drawn over photo models acting out the motions like this.

Even though it's rotoscoped there's a certain organic energy to this process. Today everything is so perfectly rendered with computers which just sucks the life and personality right out of the animation.

the paintings are gorgeous

This film is part of my childhood. It’s fucking awesome.

Gurney and Kinkade 👏👏👏🎨🎨

One of my favorite animated films, Bakshi and Frazzetta’s works are amazing.

The movie system is too bland. Should have done this tracing animation based style to help just in case if budget or other issues were in the way. Fire and Ice is awesome.

Thanks for uploading this. Much kudos and again many thanks for sharing.

This method is like basically making two movies, lol. A real life version and an animated one. So much work!

thank for this as the commentary on the dvd release wasn't the greatest

Just did the math. If 4 seconds of screen time= 40 hours of work then the movie took 54,000 hours of labor just for the initial drawing

An absolute masterpiece. I have the honor of watching this as a kid and studying it when I was in art school. Nothing like this has ever been done before, and since. So detailed and precise. Rotoscoping isn't easy. A lot of hard work and it shows. I'm not even gonna mention the music, acting and vibe, that's the charm of the 80s, but animation wise, this is gold. Pure excellence!

🤩 thank you!! never seen this before! 🤩🙏

This is pure magic!

I would´ve really loved to see the "Behind the scenes stuff" as in the live action segments before animation. Imagine watching this movie live action.

Masters of animation

That's how they did it. I wish Beowulf was done in this style instead of the cgi.

Thank you very much.

James Gurney spotted

All their painstaking efforts were taking forward step to computer animations..thanx to them

We need more...2021 Dune should have been made like this.

Yep

Thank you so much for posting this super rare footage.

Thank you. The longhaired layout guy with the deep voice is my spouse of 40 years, Tim Callahan. I am sorry to hear every vestige of this colorful romp is obliterated. BTW, Those 2 hipstery plaid shirted dudes are: Jim "Dinotopia" Gurney and, Tom, Painter-of-Light Kinkade, in their breakout roles. Tim taught me how Frazetta "fingerpainted". and I have utilized it in my work.

The best part is these two(Bakshi, Frazetta)NEVER SOLD OUT TO DISNEY. God bless both of them, they are two of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st century. RIP Frank. 🙏🏻

The only thing I hate about Bakshi movies is the sound department. The sound in the actions sequences and the volume of the music is turned down so much for my taste.

ughh, the pains. its hurting your arm more than traditional. sometimes i feel like just grab that knife, stab, cut and pull out that bracioradishitwhatever muscle, that thing in your arm. i think tracing put more strain because you limiting the movement. Salute to the arm and eye of those animator. they did well.

The manual "hands on" techniques were so great. It's a tremendous loss that this is gone forever.

the amount of work and creativity it took to make this amazing movie, wow!

I totally knew this film was rotoscoped some parts in the beginning with that ice king dude were hand traditional but other than that the entire thing is rotoscoped. Anyone can trace over video footage doesn’t really count as animation to me. But at least it looks pretty cool.

Amazing

Please can u do it a real movie this year i love dis ...fire and ice 2019

You should of hired Bob Ross LOL Made myself laugh But he was doing his show in 83 So Bill Alexander is probaly a better choice.

This was a fairly new way to animate-- it's not my favorite, because you can definitely lose a lot of the imaginative and creative processes of animation. If you're not careful it can look like tracing, and you might as well just FILM the entire thing. But Fire and Ice still manages to be a treasure.

For its time this was a landmark process. The true artistry came in taking the rotoscopes and applying the exaggerated drawing styles to the creatures and monsters. Just wonderful !.

11:42 she is hot!...

yeh, but the boobs

So is the original video of the actors acting the parts gone? Or does anyone have a link to that?Tbh I got to see the liberties they took between tiger's ass and the original actresss'.

Insane how labor intensive that process is. Now animators use motion capture and the computer can fill in between key frames.

thank you for posting this. As someone who is interested in animation this was a real eye opener!

Oh, so that's why most of the characters didn't have any clothes. They had to read the body movements of the stunt live action actors properly.

Wow! Thank you for this gem!

Previously there was a concern with quality and great artists made history in the animated film!

I love how rotoscope (invented by Fleischer Studios, the creators of Betty Boop) allows animated film to achieve a more lifelike feel. My only problem with it, is that (as with mocap in CG film) it can become easily abused.