https://www.xplainthexmen.com/2020/08/hawk-talk-video-renaissance/
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"Ooh, ooh, I get to do my Count Zero Contextualizes Stuff through Anime Thing for a Hawk Talk.
So, a lot of these Ranken-Bass cell animated projects – Flight of Dragons, The Hobbit & Return of the King, and The Last Unicorn were all animated by Studio Topcraft. If that name sounds familiar, they also animated Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind. When Topcraft went bankrupt, the staff basically either went with Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki to Studio Ghibli, with Hideaki Anno to help Daicon Film on their project Royal Space Force: Wings of Honnêamise (and some later going on to GAINAX).
The rest went on to a new company called Pacific Animation Corporation, which got bought by Disney, dissolved in the early 2000s, with everyone then starting a third company called The Answer Studio where they’ve been working on DC Animated projects."
"Oh, and one other thing – the character designer for the Ranken Bass Hobbit movies (and IIRC Flight of Dragons), would go on to do character design work for Record of Lodoss War, and is basically responsible for Anime Elves having such super long and pointy ears."
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