Don't try to say it was an artistic choice or whatever. It looks cheap as hell especially since they reuse the same scenes and in some cases just flipped the image. It didn't even look this bad in Lord of the Rings. Bakshi has a real problem with this crap, he even snuck it in near the end of the otherwise traditionally animated Hey Good Lookin' - a ridiculous looking scene with rotoscoped characters dancing in the same shot as non-rotoscoped characters.
shareI thought it made the movie look really cool.
shareDon't try to say it was an artistic choice or whatever.
Watched "Wizards" today on TV. Not going into the story or characters from the 70s.
40-some years of technical progress make a big difference, all the details I didn't notice first time around:
Most backgrounds are inked line drawings with an overlay of airbrush pastel. They are gorgeous and moody. Animated figures are jarring in comparison.
Most jarring is the color pallete -- just use any old color that's bright and in-your-eyeball contrasty? It's jarring. We've been brainwashed by Disney -- It's a long way from Disney's iron grip on CYMK usage.
Interspersed newsreel B/W footage, rotoscoped outlines, it's all a kind of visual shorthand.
Truthfully I bet somebody could duplicate this visually with a decent home computer.
I just got the rotoscoped army scenes confused with the newsreel scenes. Wasn't always sure what was happening.
And where did all those soldiers of darkness come from anyway? Did they just crawl out of hell when they saw the Hitler newsreels were on? The cartoony mutants were already there, but everybody else?
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