Fire and Ice | |
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Directed by | Ralph Bakshi |
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Based on | Characters by Ralph Bakshi Frank Frazetta |
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Cinematography | Francis Grumman |
Edited by | A. David Marshall |
Music by | William Kraft |
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Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox (United States) Producers Sales Organization (International)[1] |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.2 million |
Box office | $860,000 |
Fire and Ice is a 1983 American animated dark fantasy adventure film directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film, a collaboration between Bakshi and Frank Frazetta, was distributed by 20th Century-Fox. The animated feature, based on characters co-created by Bakshi and Frazetta, was made using the process of rotoscoping, in which scenes were shot in live-action and then traced onto animation cels.
The screenplay was written by Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas, both of whom had written Conan stories for Marvel Comics. The background painter was James Gurney, the author and artist of the Dinotopia illustrated novels. The American painter Thomas Kinkade also worked on the backgrounds to various scenes. Peter Chung, the creator of Aeon Flux, was a layout artist.