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Steven H wrote:Time Masters is in a similar animation style... Then again, if you hated Time Masters for it's style, it's done largely the same way. You can watch some clips on youtube here and here

What A Disgrace wrote:I love this film...but I have to ask...what does everyone think of Laloux's last feature; and the only one not available on DVD - Gandahar?

Lino wrote:TM also used the traditional form of cell animation whilst FP's style is achieved by animating paper cut out images which creates that geometric sense of movement instead of the more fluid one that results from the former.

Steven H wrote:You can watch some clips on youtube here and here, though they may "give away" some plot points (definitely not the main attraction of the film, however.)

Macintosh wrote:Thanks for the clips. Those seem much better (and much more trippy) than Time Masters. I should mention that the thing that bothered me most about Time Masters was the music and character's voices.

"Willow cuts to the chase, eagerly digging in his bag and pulling out a copy of the sound track to the 1973 cult classic children’s film, The Fantastic Planet. Originally released in France under the title Le Planete Sauvage, the soundtrack is well known as a sample source for much of the first Quasimoto album, The Unseen. As Madlib licks a seal on his blunt, a glimmer of recognition flickers through his eyes when his gaze wanders over the blue-green cartoon aliens depicted on the cover. “I was watching that movie at the time. It was on Bravo or Independent Film Channel or some shit. I just flipped that shit on one night. Right when I turned to it the music was on and I was like, “What the fuck?” I just turned my VCR on and started recording that shit. ‘Come on Feet’ is from the visuals. I got a few tracks from that and [Peanut Butter] Wolf bought me the original album a little while later.”

Watching The Fantastic Planet, it’s easy to see how it could inspire you to work with an alien being who goes around smacking suckas with bricks. The Planet Fantastic is controlled by a race called the Traags, their society much like our human one, with a crucial difference: the Traags are giants on their planet and the human beings there are rodent-sized by comparison. In this world, humans are mere playthings in a psychadelic landscape, the victims of the same absent-minded tyranny that we reign over pets and wild animals.

“If I had seen that when I was small I would have been kind of frightened. And the music is ridiculous. That’s how I’d make a music if I was making a soundtrack.” The making of a lost classic?

Indeed. “I did a whole CD trying to recreate the soundtrack hip-hop style. But my man lost it. Like my master. I passed that out, and I don’t save my shit, my homeboy lost it. I was like damn man, that took me two days.” And so the beats were recreated for Lord Quas."