Ralph Bakshi is a director like no other. After working nearly a decade for Terrytoons and on shows like Rocket Robin Hood and the 1967 Spider-Man, he founded his own animated studio in 1969.

“We were all excited that the Bakshi film was in bounds for this project,” wrote principal art director Tom Jenkot in an email interview. “It’s such a beautiful movie and it has some amazing technical ...

Dirty cartoons have been around since the dawn of animation (and the dawn of man), but none took the world of cinema by storm, pushed the envelope further, and made a cause célèbre quite like the ...

Gandalf is a crazy old man, jabbing his finger and issuing threats. Aragorn is a pissy Native American. Gimli is the world's first six-foot-tall dwarf. Legolas has a round face and eyes that don't ...

There are many great scenes in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but some of the most interesting are the ones that often escape us in the first or second watch. Some of them are even ...

After fighting producers, the studios and even fellow animators for more than 25 years, maverick filmmaker Ralph Bakshi left Hollywood and moved to Santa Fe, N.M., where he has spent the past decade ...