![]() ![]() When Frodo puts the ring on at Weathertop, the use of opacity between the dark world of the ring and the actual world is amazing. Ralph Bakshi’s Rotoscoped Nazgul (Black Riders) The Black Riders or Nazgûl are rotoscoped mainly in black with little detail except for their eyes until they uncloak themselves on Weathertop, where a good deal of detail is put into them, making the Nazgûl as menacing as they are described in the books. The colors and backgrounds of Saruman delaying Gandalf are very cool, “trippy” would be a good word to use considering the time period it was released in. All of the live action sequences that were animated was shot by Bakshi, which must have been a huge undertaking in the 70’s, even if you disregard the fact it was just shot for rotoscope to be animated over later. The rotoscoped parts of this movie were not live-action scenes taken from other films, as Bakshi had done in Wizards. The artwork in the painted backgrounds throughout this movie are equally impressive.Įqual to the backgrounds, the animation whether it be just straight hand-drawn animation (as animation should be) or rotoscoped animation is just beautiful. ![]() After Bilbo Baggins’ birthday party we see 17 years pass in the Shire and the background artwork of the Shire depicting that passage of time is breathtaking. ![]()
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