#top craft

[sunekit]

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Top Craft fanart (c!Jazzghost e Coelho Dourado)

[bunnymajo]

“Koala Boy Kokki” - October 4, 1984

[everyanimatedmovie]

287. The Hobbit (1977)

7/10

Easily the best movie Rankin/Bass ever made, with uncharacteristically cool design and writing. It's a fairly straight adaptation of the book (as straight as one can be when adapting Tolkien, that is) and many of the songs have lyrics from Tolkien's poetry. A few details are left out here and there, but there is only so much you can cram into an hour and fifteen minutes of movie. The songs are good, though they are definitely a product of their time - they are very 1970's.

The Hobbit is a perfect example of how good design can turn a cheap movie into a masterpiece. There isn't anything expensive about this movie, and yet a little effort to make it unique went a hell of a long way. The cel animation itself was done by the Japanese studio Topcraft, which later was bought by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki, and renamed Studio Ghibli, which you may have heard of. Every race of fantasy creature looks like a distinct, unique species, not just humans with pointy ears, and the design for Smaug is my favorite of any I’ve seen. I highly recommend this movie over the under-imagined Peter Jackson trilogy.

[kaijuborn]

“Molly, who am I? Why am I here? What is it that I’m seeking in this strange place, day after day? I knew a moment ago, but now I’ve forgotten.” 

- The Last Unicorn (requested by anonymous)

[wannabeanimator]

Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was first released on March 11, 1984.

After the heavily re-written and edited 1985 release of this film in the United States and Europe (as "Warriors of the Wind"), which substantially changed the movie in addition to cutting nearly 25 minutes of footage, Hayao Miyazaki was hesitant to release any of his films outside of Japan. Miyazaki demanded that any new licencor for his films be contractually bound to do no edits whatsoever aside from a straight translation and dub. Disney (who bought the rights to all of Miyazaki's films except The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)) has honored this stipulation. (x)

[wannabeanimator]

Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ) was first released on March 11th, 1984.

Miyazaki was so upset by the original international cut version that he sent a samurai sword to the Executive at Disney with a simple note which read: "No cuts." (x)

[jimforce]

NEW VIDEO The Return of the King (1980) Review

Talking about the worst and least well known of the Tolkien animated films. The follow up to the hobbit that skips 2 books and pretends that's gonna work out even though it's a terrible idea. but the animation is nice