Over the next eleven years, Bakshi directed seven additional animated features.

As he continued to work on Heavy Traffic, Bakshi began pitching his next project, Harlem Nights, a film loosely based on the Uncle Remus story books.

After locking Bakshi out of the studio the next day, Krantz called several directors, including Chuck Jones, in search of a replacement.

The music video put together a production team at Bakshi Animation whose next project was the short-lived TV series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures.

Outside her apartment, Bakshi and Monet appear on the verge of admitting that they love each other, but agree to meet the next week.

Bakshi began pitching his next project, Harlem Nights, a film loosely based on the Uncle Remus story books.

The next day, Krantz locked Bakshi out of the studio, reportedly tapping Bakshi's phone because he was wary of his loyalty as an employee.

William Squire voiced Gandalf in the animated film The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 ) directed by Ralph Bakshi.

By the time Fritz the Cat was released, Bakshi had become a celebrity, but his reputation was primarily based upon his having directed the first " dirty " animated film.

Bakshi juxtaposed stereotypical designs of blacks with even more negative depictions of white racists, but the film's strongest criticism is directed at the Mafia.

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.

A number of memorable animated videos were produced during the heyday of MTV, including " Take on Me " by a-ha ; " Sledgehammer " by Peter Gabriel ; " Money for Nothing " by Dire Straits ; and " The Harlem Shuffle " by The Rolling Stones ( the animated sequences in this video were directed by Ralph Bakshi and John Kricfalusi ).

Bakshi then simultaneously directed a number of animated films, starting with Heavy Traffic.

These stories served as the basis for a pair of film adaptations produced by Steve Krantz, Fritz the Cat 1972, directed by Ralph Bakshi, and The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat 1974, directed by Robert Taylor.

Animator Ralph Bakshi directed a film adaptation of Fritz the Cat, released in 1972 to much success.

Under Bakshi, Kricfalusi directed the animation for The Rolling Stones ' 1986 music video " Harlem Shuffle ".

Cool World is a 1992 American live-action / animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi, and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne, and Brad Pitt.

Category: Films directed by Ralph Bakshi

It was written, produced, and directed by Ralph Bakshi.

Category: Films directed by Ralph Bakshi

Heavy Traffic is a 1973 American animated film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi.

Bakshi later directed Fritz the Cat, an adaptation of Robert Crumb's comic strip of the same name.

Category: Films directed by Ralph Bakshi

In 1977, he began work on the animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings produced and directed by Ralph Bakshi.

Ralph Bakshi directed an animated movie adaptation of The Lord of the Rings in 1978 ( partly made with the rotoscope technique ), which covered only the first half of The Lord of the Rings.

In 1978, Tolkien Enterprises and the distributor United Artists funded an animated version of The Lord of the Rings directed by Ralph Bakshi, which covered approximately the first half of the Lord of the Rings.

* Fire and Ice ( 1983 film ), a 1983 animated feature film directed by Ralph Bakshi and co-created with Frank Frazetta

The live-action was directed by famous animation director Ralph Bakshi and the animation was directed by future The Ren & Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi.

Billy Barty was the model for Bilbo, as well as Frodo and Sam, in the live-action recordings Bakshi used for rotoscoping.

Billy Barty was the model for Sam, as well as Frodo and Bilbo, in the live-action recordings Bakshi used for rotoscoping.

In 1987, Bakshi returned to television work, producing the series Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, which ran for two years before it was canceled due to complaints from a conservative political group over perceived drug references.

In 1966, Bill Weiss asked Bakshi to help him carry presentation boards to Manhattan for a meeting with CBS.

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

Bakshi served as head of the studio for eight months before Paramount closed its animation division on December 1, 1967.

Bakshi Productions paid its employees higher salaries than other studios and expanded opportunities for female and minority animators.

In 1969, Ralph's Spot was founded as a division of Bakshi Productions to produce commercials for Coca-Cola and Max, the 2000-Year-Old Mouse, a series of educational shorts paid for by Encyclopædia Britannica.

When a cameraman realized that the cels for the desert scenes were not wide enough and revealed the transparency, Bakshi painted a cactus to cover the mistake.

Inspiration for the film came from penny arcades, where Bakshi often played pinball, sometimes accompanied by his 12-year-old son, Mark.

Krantz had not compensated Bakshi for his work on Fritz the Cat, and halfway through the production of Heavy Traffic, Bakshi asked when he would be paid.

Bakshi financed the film's completion himself from the director's fees for other projects such as Wizards, The Lord of the Rings and American Pop.

Returning to the fantasy drawings he had created in high school for inspiration, Bakshi intended to prove that he could produce a " family picture " that had the same impact as his adult-oriented films.

The experiment worked, and Bakshi got the pages he needed for a penny per copy.

As War Wizards neared completion, Lucas requested that Bakshi change the title of his film to Wizards to avoid conflict with Star Wars ; Bakshi agreed because Lucas had allowed Mark Hamill to take time off from Star Wars to record a voice for Wizards.

Bakshi arranged a meeting with Mike Medavoy, United Artists ' head of production, who agreed to let Bakshi direct in exchange for the $ 3 million that had been spent on Boorman's screenplay.

Bakshi contacted Saul Zaentz, who wrote a check to cover MGM's debt and agreed to fund the $ 8 million budget for the first of what was initially planned as a series of three films, and later negotiated down to two.

During the middle of a large shoot, union bosses called for a lunch break, and Bakshi secretly shot footage of actors in Orc costumes moving toward the craft service table, and used the footage in the film.

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.