Titan AE came out when I was in high school and I loved it. That film along with Anastasia, Tarzan, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Aladdin, and Pocahontas had a HUGE influence on how I draw people and were the reason why I originally wanted to be an animator. I ultimately ended up being an illustrator since Disney shut down their traditional animation studios my freshman year of art school, but 15+ years later in the industry and I haven't regretted a single second of it (I'm 38 now). The funny thing is that people STILL recognize that influence in my work, especially from Anastasia. Every so often I'll still get a comment here and there that says my work reminds them of Anastasia, and I tell them they have a very good eye. One of my friends says it shows the most in how I draw cheeks in profile. Titan AE had a FANTASTIC soundtrack, too. I still listen to it from time to time, especially "It's My Turn to Fly" and "Cosmic Castaway". Those still slap.
This is such an underrated Sci Fi Action Adventure film from Don Bluth, and it was also the last animated film from Fox Animation Studios the company went bankrupt in 2001.
Another one of my childhood favorites. I don't know if it gets hate, or if it was just ahead of its time/marketed incorrectly. This was way before adult animation was commonplace.
First watched in my early 20s when it came out and still love the film. Separate from the film was it's DTS soundmix on the DVD release and THX optimizer special feature. It was a must have disc for home theater enthusiasts. The soundmix still holds up and still one of the best to show off a system.
In _Titan A.E.,_ which stars Bill Pullman as the voice of "Capt. Joseph Korso", the new Earth is christened "Bob". In _Top Gun: Maverick,_ Lewis Pullman (Bill's son) plays "LT Robert Floyd", callsign "Bob". #MINDBLOWN
The type of animation you're talking about where they use actual footage of someone moving an then animate over it is called rotoscoping and was first used by Flesher studios in 1915. It was used to speed up production and to get smoother more natural movement.
I really like this movie, it's one of the first I bought on DVD in college, and I remember going out to buy the soundtrack the day after I saw it. It is interesting that we got a run of animated sci-fi films around 2000 (Iron Giant was '99, this was '00, Atlantis was '01, and Treasure Planet was '02), and they (mostly) all flopped. Re-watching them today makes it hard to see why, because they're all actually pretty great. I guess they were just ahead of their time. Hope you guys do give Treasure Planet a re-watch, as well as Atlantis!
I always loved this movie and I'm glad you guys enjoyed it too. I believe the Dredge were afraid of humanity's potential to shape the galaxy to their liking. They only attacked when they learned of the Titan project which is a clear example of both human ingenuity and ambition. They saw a potential threat in this young race and wanted to wipe them out before they became a real problem. Also yes, movies do feel longer when you're a kid. Everything does, because you've experienced less time. When you're 6 years old 3 years is half your entire lifetime, but when you're 30 it's only 1/10.
Once humans could engineer liveable planets at will they would spread all over and be impossible to stop easily. I always joked about a sequel set a few generations later. Rebuilt population and a fleet going out for payback against all the species that didn't help humanity or treated them like shit while humans were nomads. Except for the bat people, the realest allies humans could have, took till I was older to realize the one fully sacrificed itself to save the girl.
I loved this movie when it came out! I also recall this being one of the first movies I used to "showcase" my brand new DVD player (lol) when it was released on home video. Traditional animation has a certain "feel" that CGI doesn't, and Don Bluth always had a very fluid style. As many have said, the film was marketed poorly and didn't fit squarely into a specific demo - too adult for kids, and too kiddish for adults, and animated sci-fi was kind of a hard sell. It was also a bit expensive and FOX animation was in the process of layoffs while it was being made. One of the odd things I recall about this move was that Creed's song "Higher" was featured in the promotional materials/trailers, but does not appear in the movie or on the soundtrack. That said, the "creed trailer" was amazing - no dialogue - just music and footage.
You got to admit it, this underrated movie has the best soundtrack period. Loved the voice talents and it’s animation. I loved this film as much as Treasure Planet and Atlantis the Lost Empire. Great review, gents.
Agreed. One of my favorites growing up. My greatest takeaways from this movie was the inspiration that it gave and why humanity was being hunted down; that humanity can achieve anything. A great message. Love your reaction to it!
I love this film. Underrated. I often found myself watching this, Atlantis: The forgotten kingdom and Treasure planet when i was in a sci fi animated film mood. All three kind of compliment eachother and make for a fun evening watching back to back.
1. Great Reaction, Great film. 2. It IS Sid from Ice Age. 3. The animation you're thinking of is Rotoscope, and Guardians wanted to tribute Ralph Bakshi's "American Pop" & "Lord of the Rings". This film was Not rotoscope.
I remember this came out and I thought it was a rip off of Treasure Planet, kinda like what Tom was saying. A lot of the same beats are there. There's a jaded protagonist with daddy issues, a mix of CG and 2D animation, space pirate betrayals, dated 2000s pop music, both flopped at the box office, etc etc I always held Treasure Planet in higher regard because I liked the characters more, but then I learned that Treasure Planet actually came out AFTER this movie. Now I like Tiitan A.E. a lot more lol
It gets hate? I've always loved this movie, but more importantly, i was under the impression that most other people did too. The worst thing I could say about it is that its not as popular, and therefore is underrated.
Real bummer this didn't do better. I don't know if it was bad box office timing or lack of marketing or what. Seems like Pixar came out on top when the 90's were said and done. From then on, everyone said "Do like that! Do like that! Make moneys! Dooo!" I guess we still got some direct to video DC and Marvel stuff for a little while but most modern 2D comes from overseas like Japan for instance. I'm just glad I was a kid when I was and that I got to go down to the Disney and Universal parks when I did. Even got up at 3 am one of those mornings to go see a space shuttle take off at like 9 cause of ice problems. Worth it even to a 10 year old by the way.
Don Bluth is a legend. And I feel like Disney went out of their way to kill his legacy because he was a competitor. He worked for Disney in their early years and then created his own animation studio. They produced a ton of greats like The Land Before Time, Secret Of N.H.I.M., and The Brave Little Toaster. One of the best animators and storytellers of all time. And he didn't insult the intelligence of younger viewers like Disney does every day.
5:50 "You'll freeze! Instantly!" No, actually... It's true that outer space is _very_ cold, but there's almost nothing to carry heat away from your body. What _actually_ happens is that you fall unconscious, then you die of suffocation, then over the next 24 to 48 hours you slowly freeze into a popsicle. (Either that, or if you're close enough to a star, you get roasted into a crispy critter.)
Had this baby on VHS back in the day. Such a great movie! This and Final Fantasy: Spirits Within were some of my favorite sci-fi animations, but no one I knew had ever heard of them.
I think what your mate is thinking of is reference footage, and Rotoscoping. Animators do shoot video to help with the animation, sometimes with full costumes and something of a set. Disney did shoot a bit of live footage that you can find for Alice in Wonderland and many of those classic films. As for the movie, sadly the studio was already bleeding money before Fox Animation even got to it. The movie was actually supposed to be live action and was meant to be a big franchise, there was a PlayStation One demo made. So it would've had to be a massive success to save the studio. Sadly then movie was a victim of a bad set of circumstances, the studio was acquired by Fox mostly by accident. And funny you should mention Treasure Planet, I say also look at Atlantis the lost empire. That era was full of big budget animated films trying to reach other audiences, specifically action but sadly at that time animation was seen as ONLY forever young children. Something Japanese anime had gotten over years ago. Titan Hell you should watch Cowboy Bebop if you like this sort of sci-fi
The whole “freeze instantly in space” thing is actually a myth, which makes sense when you think about it. Like, a snowstorm in Antarctica is going to be like 60 degrees below zero, and it will absolutely freeze you solid if you are exposed to it in a t shirt for more than like a minute, but this movie doesn’t show them floating in space for 60 full seconds. It implies that they get tossed out and picked back up within like 5-10 seconds, tops. So, like, if you were running in a T-shirt from one building in Antarctica to another building in that -60 weather and those two buildings were only like 20 feet apart, you could totally make that run in 5-10 seconds and be fine, as long as you actually made it. Same thing with Space. If anything, it would probably be MORE survivable in space, since there is literally no matter surrounding your body in space that could siphon your bodily heat (like cold air, perhaps) you would probably freeze significantly more slowly and would probably suffocate and/or have all of the moisture sucked out of you (though this IS where you would lose the vast majority of your body heat), long before your body heat eventually dissipated. I mean, that would still take a while… like 5-10 minutes, but people have survived drowning for that amount of time relatively unscathed in real life, so as long as the whole moisture sucking thing added on top for a few minutes, it’s totally feasible that they would have survived what they went through well enough to make a full recovery after a few days of over hydrating and not pushing themselves too hard.
Like, the physics of heat transfer don’t suddenly start functioning instantly in space. They work on a gradient, just like everything we experience on earth.
I went to see this at the pictures and thought it was a great film. I think it was too ahead of its time at the time. It also has elements similar to Arthur C Clarke's book 'The Songs Of Distant Earth'. Mike Oldfield composed an album based off the book and the music is awesome. Whenever l watch this film back on DVD I often think Oldfield's music would be great here in this scene or that scene. That's not to say the film's music is bad... but if you ever get the chance to listen to Mike Oldfield's 'The Songs Of Distant Earth' you'll know exactly what l mean.
If you guys are open to watching animated movies, you know part of the journey towards seeing EVERY movie that exists means eventually you'll have to get to MY favorite animated movie of all time - the 1986 classic Transformers: The Movie.
At the time this was released, there were three novels that accompanied it. The novelization of the film along with two prequels. "Karl's Story" and "Akima's Story" giving a full background for each character. The novelization of the film also included a much more indepth explanation of why the Drej actually feared the humans... (Spoiler alert) the humans are pretty much the bad guys.
The marketing was bad, it wasn't really for young kids, but it didn't do enough to get adults to the theaters and it also came out in the summer which is always tough. It's a pretty good movie.
Another underappreciated favorite of mine that I grew up with. I loved Don Bluth's animated films and loved sci-fi and so this was right up my alley as a kid!
Disney artists used to have models come in for the artists, as wells as animals like lions and bears. Then they started working from films in the wild, and they had stock sequences they would use as fillers (Like in Jungle Book and Winnie the Pooh, same exact sequences can be seen, just redraw the main character's looks and some of the background). This was before computers but there were times they filmed a scene, then drew it. They also would have the artists observe the voice actors, etc. It was common place before the 90s.
i have a box version of this movie, for a vhs, and it has the shape of the ship, i dont know if it was a version that was a studio preview or a "limited edition" or something, cant find info on it.
The writers of Titan AE learned the lesson of Star wars episode one and chose to kill off the cockroach chef, who was originally meant to tag along with the main group as comic relief. Not wanting to create a second Jar jar, they chose to have the dredge summarily execute it after he snitched on the protagonists. Also; doesn't Akima remind anyone of a certain cycloptic space pilot? Purple hair, strong female sci-fi space pilot? Wasn't Futurama part of Fox in the earlier first series like Titan AE?
Hi guys. Awesome content. I think a few movies you may want to check out are Once Upon a Time in the West (the best western movie, followed by the good the bad and the ugly), Lawrence of Arabia, and also the Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window. I think you will enjoy all of these classic masterpieces.
I don’t think it got hate per se. It just didn’t get a big audience to go see it. I actually saw it with my dad when it came out and we had a very small audience in the theater we went to.
The type of animation traced over live film is called rotoscoping. It was originally used to get a realistic effect, specifically with the movement of women, before animators had explored such techniques more. It later became popular as a cheap way to create a film, adding all the effects in post animation, such as the Lord Of The Rings animated film. If you want to see a 21st century example, check out the film “A Scanner Darkly”.
You don't freeze in space, you only get cold if your temperature gets rapidly taken away by a strong wind. That's why when there's snow on the ground but no wind you don't feel cold in the first minute. He told him to breathe out so he doesn't burst his lungs.
This Film is kinda cute, i have seen it back in the Days. I connect the second Film i watch next to this one strongly, they differ but that's it for me - watch FAKK2 HEAVY METAL, it is this one in more evil!! ;) Enjoy!
Don Bluths animation is timeless, sadly I agree this was underrated but it does a have fan base and remains a firm classic with me , and the voice actors were amazing, Matt Damon , bill Pullman , drew Barrymore, John leguizamo , Nathan lane , Jeannine grolafalo , and Ron perlman
this is one of my fave movies i saw as a kid! i saw this in theaters, and i was so attached to it deeply! its very underrated! Im so glad you guys watched it!
The film has some frustrating cliches with the story and characters, including certain scenes that haven't aged well mainly because of the combination of CGI, physical props, and hand-drawn animation that didn't mix well together. But I have to admit, there are some emotional moments and great animation from time to time. The action, music, and voice-acting are decent (although Matt Damon can be a bit much). It's a serviceable movie that entertains and has nostalgia value to it. Looking back at the 90s and 2000s, we had it pretty good with films in general. Cliched? Yes. But there was a real passion and love for story-telling. Now-a-days, it's gotten to a point where it's not about telling a good story anymore. Everything is far more political and cynical, plus no originality. And that's something Titan A.E. has that many films these days do not.
Titan AE came out when I was in high school and I loved it. That film along with Anastasia, Tarzan, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Aladdin, and Pocahontas had a HUGE influence on how I draw people and were the reason why I originally wanted to be an animator. I ultimately ended up being an illustrator since Disney shut down their traditional animation studios my freshman year of art school, but 15+ years later in the industry and I haven't regretted a single second of it (I'm 38 now).
The funny thing is that people STILL recognize that influence in my work, especially from Anastasia. Every so often I'll still get a comment here and there that says my work reminds them of Anastasia, and I tell them they have a very good eye. One of my friends says it shows the most in how I draw cheeks in profile.
Titan AE had a FANTASTIC soundtrack, too. I still listen to it from time to time, especially "It's My Turn to Fly" and "Cosmic Castaway". Those still slap.
This is such an underrated Sci Fi Action Adventure film from Don Bluth, and it was also the last animated film from Fox Animation Studios the company went bankrupt in 2001.
Another one of my childhood favorites. I don't know if it gets hate, or if it was just ahead of its time/marketed incorrectly. This was way before adult animation was commonplace.
I enjoyed it, however I remember the marketing hyping it up like it was the next Star Wars, I'm sure they even said that.
One of my favorites as a Pre-Teen , have it on DVD
First watched in my early 20s when it came out and still love the film. Separate from the film was it's DTS soundmix on the DVD release and THX optimizer special feature. It was a must have disc for home theater enthusiasts. The soundmix still holds up and still one of the best to show off a system.
In _Titan A.E.,_ which stars Bill Pullman as the voice of "Capt. Joseph Korso", the new Earth is christened "Bob".
In _Top Gun: Maverick,_ Lewis Pullman (Bill's son) plays "LT Robert Floyd", callsign "Bob".
#MINDBLOWN
When I was in my 40's, and having a horrible day, my daughter would pop this in the VCR. You need this tonight MOM!!
The type of animation you're talking about where they use actual footage of someone moving an then animate over it is called rotoscoping and was first used by Flesher studios in 1915. It was used to speed up production and to get smoother more natural movement.
A modern rotoscoped film - “A Scanner Darkly”
Disney use it a lot in there animated films as well.
Bought the CD soundtrack for this for an exclusive song from The Urge - “It’s My Turn To Fly”.
Still a treasure for me.
I remember the "Over My Head" song being played on MTV.
That song & "Cosmic Castaway" still find their ways onto a lot of my playlists!
I have "Cosmic Castaway", "It's My Turn to Fly", "Over My Head", and "Not Quite Paradise" on my playlists to this day. ^_^
same
I really like this movie, it's one of the first I bought on DVD in college, and I remember going out to buy the soundtrack the day after I saw it. It is interesting that we got a run of animated sci-fi films around 2000 (Iron Giant was '99, this was '00, Atlantis was '01, and Treasure Planet was '02), and they (mostly) all flopped. Re-watching them today makes it hard to see why, because they're all actually pretty great. I guess they were just ahead of their time. Hope you guys do give Treasure Planet a re-watch, as well as Atlantis!
I loved this movie as a kid. Such an underrated film ❤
I always loved this movie and I'm glad you guys enjoyed it too.
I believe the Dredge were afraid of humanity's potential to shape the galaxy to their liking. They only attacked when they learned of the Titan project which is a clear example of both human ingenuity and ambition. They saw a potential threat in this young race and wanted to wipe them out before they became a real problem.
Also yes, movies do feel longer when you're a kid. Everything does, because you've experienced less time. When you're 6 years old 3 years is half your entire lifetime, but when you're 30 it's only 1/10.
Once humans could engineer liveable planets at will they would spread all over and be impossible to stop easily.
I always joked about a sequel set a few generations later. Rebuilt population and a fleet going out for payback against all the species that didn't help humanity or treated them like shit while humans were nomads. Except for the bat people, the realest allies humans could have, took till I was older to realize the one fully sacrificed itself to save the girl.
I watched this in theaters in 2000, when I was about 15 years old. Remember liking it a lot, but I don't remember anything about it.
12:56 - Shorty's correct. Disney rotoscoped a great deal of their animations, and re-used the original footage on multiple films.
I loved this movie when it came out! I also recall this being one of the first movies I used to "showcase" my brand new DVD player (lol) when it was released on home video. Traditional animation has a certain "feel" that CGI doesn't, and Don Bluth always had a very fluid style. As many have said, the film was marketed poorly and didn't fit squarely into a specific demo - too adult for kids, and too kiddish for adults, and animated sci-fi was kind of a hard sell. It was also a bit expensive and FOX animation was in the process of layoffs while it was being made.
One of the odd things I recall about this move was that Creed's song "Higher" was featured in the promotional materials/trailers, but does not appear in the movie or on the soundtrack. That said, the "creed trailer" was amazing - no dialogue - just music and footage.
One of the best openings in a movie ever! 🔥
You got to admit it, this underrated movie has the best soundtrack period. Loved the voice talents and it’s animation. I loved this film as much as Treasure Planet and Atlantis the Lost Empire. Great review, gents.
I LOVED this movie when I was a kid. What a blast from the past.
U should watch the animation movie Heavymetal, with John Candy and Eugene Levy. Plus the sequel with Billy Idol.
Agreed. One of my favorites growing up.
My greatest takeaways from this movie was the inspiration that it gave and why humanity was being hunted down; that humanity can achieve anything. A great message.
Love your reaction to it!
I love this film. Underrated. I often found myself watching this, Atlantis: The forgotten kingdom and Treasure planet when i was in a sci fi animated film mood. All three kind of compliment eachother and make for a fun evening watching back to back.
1. Great Reaction, Great film.
2. It IS Sid from Ice Age.
3. The animation you're thinking of is Rotoscope, and Guardians wanted to tribute Ralph Bakshi's "American Pop" & "Lord of the Rings". This film was Not rotoscope.
I remember this came out and I thought it was a rip off of Treasure Planet, kinda like what Tom was saying. A lot of the same beats are there. There's a jaded protagonist with daddy issues, a mix of CG and 2D animation, space pirate betrayals, dated 2000s pop music, both flopped at the box office, etc etc
I always held Treasure Planet in higher regard because I liked the characters more, but then I learned that Treasure Planet actually came out AFTER this movie. Now I like Tiitan A.E. a lot more lol
It gets hate? I've always loved this movie, but more importantly, i was under the impression that most other people did too. The worst thing I could say about it is that its not as popular, and therefore is underrated.
It got hate at the time. Then became a cult classic
at the time it was panned yes, i love it though
Real bummer this didn't do better. I don't know if it was bad box office timing or lack of marketing or what. Seems like Pixar came out on top when the 90's were said and done. From then on, everyone said "Do like that! Do like that! Make moneys! Dooo!" I guess we still got some direct to video DC and Marvel stuff for a little while but most modern 2D comes from overseas like Japan for instance. I'm just glad I was a kid when I was and that I got to go down to the Disney and Universal parks when I did. Even got up at 3 am one of those mornings to go see a space shuttle take off at like 9 cause of ice problems. Worth it even to a 10 year old by the way.
Don Bluth is a legend. And I feel like Disney went out of their way to kill his legacy because he was a competitor. He worked for Disney in their early years and then created his own animation studio. They produced a ton of greats like The Land Before Time, Secret Of N.H.I.M., and The Brave Little Toaster. One of the best animators and storytellers of all time. And he didn't insult the intelligence of younger viewers like Disney does every day.
best line ever. "I've finished my nap. Who's your daddy, Goons your daddy."
Watched this movie all the time as a kid. Loved it
5:50 "You'll freeze! Instantly!" No, actually... It's true that outer space is _very_ cold, but there's almost nothing to carry heat away from your body. What _actually_ happens is that you fall unconscious, then you die of suffocation, then over the next 24 to 48 hours you slowly freeze into a popsicle. (Either that, or if you're close enough to a star, you get roasted into a crispy critter.)
news flash im 65 and have loved this movie for years
Had this baby on VHS back in the day. Such a great movie! This and Final Fantasy: Spirits Within were some of my favorite sci-fi animations, but no one I knew had ever heard of them.
you're so close to 100k subs now 🤗🤯🥳 crazy to think when i subbed there was only a few thousand subs 😯😯
I think what your mate is thinking of is reference footage, and Rotoscoping. Animators do shoot video to help with the animation, sometimes with full costumes and something of a set. Disney did shoot a bit of live footage that you can find for Alice in Wonderland and many of those classic films.
As for the movie, sadly the studio was already bleeding money before Fox Animation even got to it. The movie was actually supposed to be live action and was meant to be a big franchise, there was a PlayStation One demo made. So it would've had to be a massive success to save the studio. Sadly then movie was a victim of a bad set of circumstances, the studio was acquired by Fox mostly by accident.
And funny you should mention Treasure Planet, I say also look at Atlantis the lost empire. That era was full of big budget animated films trying to reach other audiences, specifically action but sadly at that time animation was seen as ONLY forever young children. Something Japanese anime had gotten over years ago. Titan
Hell you should watch Cowboy Bebop if you like this sort of sci-fi
The whole “freeze instantly in space” thing is actually a myth, which makes sense when you think about it.
Like, a snowstorm in Antarctica is going to be like 60 degrees below zero, and it will absolutely freeze you solid if you are exposed to it in a t shirt for more than like a minute, but this movie doesn’t show them floating in space for 60 full seconds. It implies that they get tossed out and picked back up within like 5-10 seconds, tops. So, like, if you were running in a T-shirt from one building in Antarctica to another building in that -60 weather and those two buildings were only like 20 feet apart, you could totally make that run in 5-10 seconds and be fine, as long as you actually made it. Same thing with Space. If anything, it would probably be MORE survivable in space, since there is literally no matter surrounding your body in space that could siphon your bodily heat (like cold air, perhaps) you would probably freeze significantly more slowly and would probably suffocate and/or have all of the moisture sucked out of you (though this IS where you would lose the vast majority of your body heat), long before your body heat eventually dissipated. I mean, that would still take a while… like 5-10 minutes, but people have survived drowning for that amount of time relatively unscathed in real life, so as long as the whole moisture sucking thing added on top for a few minutes, it’s totally feasible that they would have survived what they went through well enough to make a full recovery after a few days of over hydrating and not pushing themselves too hard.
Like, the physics of heat transfer don’t suddenly start functioning instantly in space. They work on a gradient, just like everything we experience on earth.
I went to see this at the pictures and thought it was a great film. I think it was too ahead of its time at the time. It also has elements similar to Arthur C Clarke's book 'The Songs Of Distant Earth'.
Mike Oldfield composed an album based off the book and the music is awesome. Whenever l watch this film back on DVD I often think Oldfield's music would be great here in this scene or that scene. That's not to say the film's music is bad... but if you ever get the chance to listen to Mike Oldfield's 'The Songs Of Distant Earth' you'll know exactly what l mean.
the last part on the ice looks so good it holds up even today
If you want to see what actually happens when you get exposed to the vacuum of space, you should get around to watching The Expanse.
If you guys are open to watching animated movies, you know part of the journey towards seeing EVERY movie that exists means eventually you'll have to get to MY favorite animated movie of all time - the 1986 classic Transformers: The Movie.
A great animated movie is Batman Mask of the Phantom. It is consistently chosen in the top Batman movies ever.
Joss whedon and Ben Edlund (firefly writers)are the geniuses for doing this masterpiece
At the time this was released, there were three novels that accompanied it. The novelization of the film along with two prequels. "Karl's Story" and "Akima's Story" giving a full background for each character. The novelization of the film also included a much more indepth explanation of why the Drej actually feared the humans... (Spoiler alert) the humans are pretty much the bad guys.
The marketing was bad, it wasn't really for young kids, but it didn't do enough to get adults to the theaters and it also came out in the summer which is always tough. It's a pretty good movie.
The animation for the ice nebula is still amazing to this day.
I love this movie, but i admit it is a guilty pleasure. (But one has to love Gune)
Another underappreciated favorite of mine that I grew up with. I loved Don Bluth's animated films and loved sci-fi and so this was right up my alley as a kid!
Disney did indeed film actors and animated over them to get the movements correct. They did this in multiple films.
I love the film, unfortunately it flopped that badly, it killed the studio.
As far as I know, there was never a follow up film or comic/book.
Disney artists used to have models come in for the artists, as wells as animals like lions and bears. Then they started working from films in the wild, and they had stock sequences they would use as fillers (Like in Jungle Book and Winnie the Pooh, same exact sequences can be seen, just redraw the main character's looks and some of the background). This was before computers but there were times they filmed a scene, then drew it. They also would have the artists observe the voice actors, etc. It was common place before the 90s.
PLEASE, fans of CR: Turn these smart fellows onto Being There, one of the smartest, quirkiest comedies ever. They deserve more worthy films! PLEASE!
i have a box version of this movie, for a vhs, and it has the shape of the ship, i dont know if it was a version that was a studio preview or a "limited edition" or something, cant find info on it.
Humans can be Evil, but the Dredge DESTROYED Earth. That makes the Dredge truly Evil
I was one of the few people who saw this in theaters. The last theatrical film from the amazing Don Bluth ❤️
Not enough people know of that movie. It is a great sci-fi animation movie with an engaging story
The writers of Titan AE learned the lesson of Star wars episode one and chose to kill off the cockroach chef, who was originally meant to tag along with the main group as comic relief. Not wanting to create a second Jar jar, they chose to have the dredge summarily execute it after he snitched on the protagonists.
Also; doesn't Akima remind anyone of a certain cycloptic space pilot? Purple hair, strong female sci-fi space pilot? Wasn't Futurama part of Fox in the earlier first series like Titan AE?
I honestly would have loved this movie as a kid because I loved Treasure Planet, and my dad actually really likes Titan AE
Hi guys. Awesome content. I think a few movies you may want to check out are Once Upon a Time in the West (the best western movie, followed by the good the bad and the ugly), Lawrence of Arabia, and also the Alfred Hitchcock movie Rear Window. I think you will enjoy all of these classic masterpieces.
It's called rotoscoping and, yes, Disney did it, too.
I don’t think it got hate per se. It just didn’t get a big audience to go see it. I actually saw it with my dad when it came out and we had a very small audience in the theater we went to.
Disney definitely rotoscoped a lot of their human characters in their early films. and event he later ones, they still had live action references.
I don't understand the hate either. It's one of my favorite movies ever, especially with the combination of 2D and CGI!
"You'll freeze instantly."
Why does everyone think this? It's not true. The film actually handles it well.
You'll freeze in an hour. Something like that.
Titan A.E. and The Fifth Element are the best Star Wars movies that aren't Star Wars movies.
I love this movie. I own a copy on DVD. It was definitely marketed as a kids movie when it seems more for teens/young adults.
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Gotta watch Land Before Time
This movie definitely still holds up, but the soundtrack is a total banger all around. :D
The type of animation traced over live film is called rotoscoping. It was originally used to get a realistic effect, specifically with the movement of women, before animators had explored such techniques more. It later became popular as a cheap way to create a film, adding all the effects in post animation, such as the Lord Of The Rings animated film.
If you want to see a 21st century example, check out the film “A Scanner Darkly”.
Imagine entertaining the idea that humans are the baddies.
the mass effect comment got me hooked !!
Loved this movie as a kid & still do.
All if not most cartoons since Betty Boop have used rotoscoping. Even Disney because they bought out the animators from Fleischer Studios
You don't freeze in space, you only get cold if your temperature gets rapidly taken away by a strong wind. That's why when there's snow on the ground but no wind you don't feel cold in the first minute. He told him to breathe out so he doesn't burst his lungs.
i seen somewhere that said they wanted to make it live action but they had no idea how to make the drej
Loved the animation in this movie.❤
This Film is kinda cute, i have seen it back in the Days.
I connect the second Film i watch next to this one strongly, they differ but that's it for me - watch FAKK2 HEAVY METAL, it is this one in more evil!!
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Enjoy!
6:14 lmao i agree there was a tension there
Don Bluths animation is timeless, sadly I agree this was underrated but it does a have fan base and remains a firm classic with me , and the voice actors were amazing, Matt Damon , bill Pullman , drew Barrymore, John leguizamo , Nathan lane , Jeannine grolafalo , and Ron perlman
This film and Starchaser Legend of Orin, have been compared to each for so long!!
I remember really liking this movie when I saw it
It's a fun film, its got a cult following for sure. Great reaction!
I absolutely love this movie. Watched it over and over as a kid and I still love it as an adult. The hand drawn animation and the story is fantastic.
Thanks, Shaun! Thanks, Tom! 🚀 I enjoyed it; wild to fathom 23 years have elapsed since. #CinemaRules #DonBluth #GaryGoldman #TitanAE
Along with The Two Towers, this has one of the best openings of any film.
It is Sid the sloth!!!! Well done.
A E stands for another earth.
atlantis is also very good.. and the iron giant... tv series in 2000 is also very good, extreme ghostbusters, godzilla, big guy and rusty, etc
this is one of my fave movies i saw as a kid! i saw this in theaters, and i was so attached to it deeply! its very underrated! Im so glad you guys watched it!
So I wasn’t the only one with my dad to see it in the theaters lol
@@tbirdUCW6ReAJ yeah my dad took me to see it and it was the best movie I’d ever seen, it’s very special to me lol
The film has some frustrating cliches with the story and characters, including certain scenes that haven't aged well mainly because of the combination of CGI, physical props, and hand-drawn animation that didn't mix well together. But I have to admit, there are some emotional moments and great animation from time to time. The action, music, and voice-acting are decent (although Matt Damon can be a bit much). It's a serviceable movie that entertains and has nostalgia value to it.
Looking back at the 90s and 2000s, we had it pretty good with films in general. Cliched? Yes. But there was a real passion and love for story-telling. Now-a-days, it's gotten to a point where it's not about telling a good story anymore. Everything is far more political and cynical, plus no originality. And that's something Titan A.E. has that many films these days do not.
"You'll freeze instantly". Not true. Tons of misconceptions about how space works include this, but it isn't remotely true
Aaah yes, Planet Bob.
You should watch Heavy Metal, 1981.
I will always love this movie
I always loved this one. :P
I was already legally an adult when this came out and I loved it.
This film was AWESOME. Don Bluths animation and his studio went head to head with disney and won over and over imho.
Love this movie!
A really good film to react to if you know STREET FIGHTER is the Animated film from the late 90s i think if not early 00s
tom wearing the same shirt as corsos lol
I noticed too, i even had to look to see if anyone else did.
Love this movie! Great visuals, great music!
Love this film
I think Iron Giant also flopped on release. I think it just came out too late and wasn't marketed properly.
Underrated masterpiece!