Bakshi recalled, " All my friends were black, everyone we did business with was black, the school across the street was black.

Bakshi received a pay raise, but was not as satisfied with his career advancement as he had anticipated ; Rasinski had died in 1965, Bakshi did not have creative control over The Mighty Heroes, and he was unhappy with the quality of the animation, writing, timing and voice acting.

Although Bakshi did not have enough time to pitch the film, Gross agreed to fund its production and distribute it, believing that it would fit in with his grindhouse slate.

This is an example of what Bakshi did best — using the medium of animation to comment on society.

Bakshi did not want to produce a broad cartoon version of the tale, so he planned to shoot the entire film in live action and animate the footage with rotoscoping.

He did not want to repeat the process that had been used on Wizards, which was unsuitable for the level of detail he intended for The Lord of the Rings, so Bakshi and camera technician Ted Bemiller created their own photographic enlarger to process the footage cheaply.

Bakshi was forced to pay the union wages out of his own fees, and the continuity between Kricfalusi's animation and the live-action footage did not match ; however, the video was completed on time.

When Sagansky left TriStar, Bakshi was forced to pitch the film again, but the studio's new executives did not understand its appeal and cut off financing.

However, Bakshi did not own the rights and did not know who did.

Bakshi did not initially view the footage ; he believed that Klein was overreacting, but agreed to let him cut the scene.

Bakshi said of the work, " It's the most proud I've been of a picture since Coonskin — the last real thing I did with total integrity.

Paramount threatened to sue Bakshi if he did not complete the film.

Bakshi later accidentally shoots Kelso with a toy gun, but Kelso does not see who did it.

" Bakshi also stated that he " had a lot of animators there that I'd brought in and I thought that maybe I could just have fun animating this stuff, which I did.

Artist Alex Niño signed a contract with Bakshi to work on the film, and was granted a work visa, but was unable to gain permission from the Philippine government in order to leave for the United States until two months afterward, and later found that by the time he had arrived in the U. S., not only had the film's animation had been completed, but Niño's visa did not allow him to submit freelance work on any other projects.

Because Bakshi did not have a lawyer, he sought advice from directors he had become friends with, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg, asking them how much they made on their films.

However, Bakshi did not own the rights and did not know who did.

Bakshi did not initially view the footage ; he believed that Klein was overreacting, but agreed to let him cut the scene.

Arkoff threatened to withdraw his financial backing unless Krantz rehired Bakshi, which Krantz did a week later.

" John Updike, comparing Abner to a “ hillbilly Candide ,” added that the strip ’ s “ richness of social and philosophical commentary approached the Voltairean .” Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

Marvin Digs, which Bakshi conceived as a " flower-child picture ", was not completed the way he had intended: It " was going to have curse words and sex scenes, and a lot more than that.

Bakshi became the first person in the animation industry since Walt Disney to have two financially successful movies released consecutively.

With the success of his second film, Heavy Traffic, Bakshi became the first person in the animation industry since Walt Disney to have two financially successful films released back-to-back.

Ralph Bakshi became the first person in the animation industry since Walt Disney to have two financially successful films released back-to-back.

" Charlie Chaplin, William F. Buckley, Al Hirschfeld, Harpo Marx, Russ Meyer, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Bakshi, Shel Silverstein, Hugh Downs, Gene Shalit, Frank Cho, Daniel Clowes and ( reportedly ) even Queen Elizabeth have confessed to being fans of Li ' l Abner.

Bakshi convinces her to stay and have a good time with him.

The Ralph Bakshi-helmed Seasons 2 and 3, however, almost entirely eliminated villains from the comic book as a cost-cutting measure, choosing to instead have Spider-Man face generic green skinned magical villains and monsters, thereby enabling re-use of stock footage from Rocket Robin Hood, another animated cartoon TV show Bakshi produced.

Ralph Bakshi was the first person in the animation industry since Walt Disney to have two financially successful films back-to-back.

Michael Barrier, an animation historian, described American Pop as one of two films that demonstrated " that Bakshi was utterly lacking in the artistic self-discipline that might have permitted him to outgrow his limitations.

Anand Bakshi ’ s association in Hindi films with film Music Composers include appox 302 films with Laxmikant Pyarelal, 99 films with R D Burman, 32 with Kalyanji-Anandji, 26 with Anu Malik, 17 with Rajesh Roshan and 11 with Anand-Milind ans his songs have been sung by singers like Shamshad Begum, Khursheed Bawra, Amirbai Karnataki, Bhushan & Party, Sudha Malhotra and more.

Bakshi met with Burt Hampft, a lawyer for the studio, and was hired to replace Culhane.

During production meetings, Wells told Bakshi that he had not fulfilled his contractual obligations and had used more live-action than he said he would ; Bakshi's lawyer was able to convince the studio not to sue him.

Despite receiving financing from other sources, including Saul Zaentz ( who agreed to distribute the soundtrack album on his Fantasy Records label ), the budget was tight enough to exclude pencil tests, so Bakshi had to test the animation by flipping an animator's drawings in his hand before they were inked and painted.

Bakshi wanted the voices to sound organic, so he experimented with improvisation, allowing his actors to ad lib during the recording sessions.

Bakshi and Lucas had negotiated contracts entitling them to franchise ownership, merchandising and back-end payment, so Ladd suggested that they fund the completion of their films themselves.

Animator Carl Bell loved drawing Aragorn so much that Bakshi gave Bell the live-action costume, which he wore while animating.

According to Bakshi, " Rotoscoping is terrible for subtleties, so it was tough to get facial performances to match the stage ones.

Fire and Ice was the most action-oriented story Bakshi had directed, so he again used rotoscoping ; the realism of the design and rotoscoped animation replicated Frazetta's artwork.

According to Bakshi, " I sold them a show they already owned, so they just gave me the rights for nothin '!

According to Bakshi, " I sold them a show they already owned, so they just gave me the rights for nothin '!

According to Bakshi, " Rotoscoping is terrible for subtleties, so it was tough to get facial performances to match the stage ones.

According to Bakshi, the scene " is based on personal experiences of black men I knew who couldn't afford to feed their families, so they left because they couldn't stand to see them suffer.

The New York Times called it a " zany, lively, uninhibited, sexual odyssey that manages to mix a bit of Walter Mitty and a touch of Woody Allen with some of the innocence of Walt Disney the urban smarts of Ralph Bakshi ," while Charles Solomon of The Los Angeles Times called it " a sprawling undisciplined piece of sniggering vulgarity that resembles nothing so much as animated bathroom graffiti.

However, the camera man was not around to capture these events, so Bakshi filmed them himself.