Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi ( born October 29, 1938 in Haifa, Palestine, now Israel) is an American film director who brought forth mainly cartoon films for an adult audience and occasionally other feature films, most recently for television formats.
In 1967, Bakshi producer and director of the Paramount Cartoon Studios. His first feature film, an animated version of the comic strip Fritz the Cat, 1972 was a blockbuster. The film gained cult status, the author Robert Crumb, however, distanced himself clearly from the film adaptation of his work.
Two other adult cartoons from his workshop, Heavy Traffic ( 1973), Coonskin (1974 ) that the topic of Black America devoted themselves received by film critics praise.
In 1977 he made the first movie version of JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings as an animated film in the complex rotoscoping method ( rotoscoping engl. ): Real actors were filmed and then frame by frame oversubscribed. The film was a financial success, however, was different reactions of Film Critics.
Bakshi tried in several films of a mixture of animation and real scenes; these were still visually separated in Heavy Traffic, acted as Brad Pitt Cool World in 1992 as a real performer in an animated environment.
Bakshi works mainly in recent years for the U.S. television in 1997 and produced a short-lived television series called Spicy City.