Disney and Rotoscoping

[Elladorine]

If they did Snoppy type rotoscoping, I'm a little sad but, oh well, it's not exact tracing.

That's nothing to be sad about, it's not exactly a crime for any artist to use references.

For the heck of it, here's more on the Fleischers' rotoscoping (this is a special from the mid-90's I used to have on tape):

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I didn't mean exact tracing, but pretty close in some stuff. In the case of Snoopy, I'd call that live-action referencing and NOT rotoscoping, but maybe that's just how I define the word.

I think rotoscoping eventually came to mean frame-by-frame referencing, even in cases like this. After all, the animators themselves are calling it that and they're the professionals. No big deal though.

Yeah, ha, that's where I discovered all those movies and first got into Anime (since they also would air Vampire Hunter D when TBS played the same movies; not that I ever got heavy into watching Anime beyond Sailor Moon, but I still wouldn't mind getting more into it eventually).

Thanks for the info on the special too.

I recorded Rock & Rule for a friend of mine in college; he'd had an unedited prerecord of it but it got stolen when he let a friend borrow it (his VCR was stolen with the tape inside)! The same friend let me borrow his copies of Akira and Riding Bean (I was never big on Akira but Riding Bean was pretty cool, especially since it took place in Chicago, where we were currently living). I remember catching Vampire Hunter D as well but barely remember anything about it now. When it came to anime I never got much past the shoujo-type stuff like Sailor Moon, Magic Knight Rayearth, Fushigi Yuugi, etc. but I occasionally watch stuff outside the genre.

And no problem.

[Super Aurora]

I recorded Rock & Rule for a friend of mine in college; he'd had an unedited prerecord of it but it got stolen when he let a friend borrow it (his VCR was stolen with the tape inside)! The same friend let me borrow his copies of Akira and Riding Bean (I was never big on Akira but Riding Bean was pretty cool, especially since it took place in Chicago, where we were currently living). I remember catching Vampire Hunter D as well but barely remember anything about it now. When it came to anime I never got much past the shoujo-type stuff like Sailor Moon, Magic Knight Rayearth, Fushigi Yuugi, etc. but I occasionally watch stuff outside the genre.

And no problem.

Riding Bean is fucking awesome. I'm glad you like it. That was the prototype oneshot to the much more well known series by Kenichi Sonoda called Gunsmith Cats. I think you'll love that one also. Bean Bandit in that one too and It still takes place in Chicago. The anime is only small OVA but the manga is a series and is awesome. Darkhorse has release all of the volumes in english now if you want to check it out.

[slave2moonlight]

Never heard of Riding Bean, though I have heard of Gunsmith Cats.

[Super Aurora]

Never heard of Riding Bean, though I have heard of Gunsmith Cats.

Riding Bean was a was a initial prototype one-shot that Sonoda made before it later became Gunsmith Cats. Bean Bandit is the same in both version but Rally Vincent was completely different. In Cats, she a bounty hunter with dark skin and is part British part Indian(India) girl. In Riding Bean she's a white girl cop with blonde hair.

[Elladorine]

Riding Bean is fucking awesome. I'm glad you like it. That was the prototype oneshot to the much more well known series by Kenichi Sonoda called Gunsmith Cats. I think you'll love that one also. Bean Bandit in that one too and It still takes place in Chicago. The anime is only small OVA but the manga is a series and is awesome. Darkhorse has release all of the volumes in english now if you want to check it out.

I used to have Gunsmith Cats on DVD! Really liked that one, but my ex took off with it when we split up and I never got around to replacing it. They put a crazy amount of effort into making it authentic Chicago, and it was kinda surreal to watch scenes of an anime take place in areas I literally used to walk through every day. The characters are pretty bad-ass, I'll have to check out the manga sometime.

Never heard of Riding Bean, though I have heard of Gunsmith Cats.

Should be able to watch Riding Bean for free on Hulu, I caught it there again a few months back.