Please recommend some interesting hand-drawn rotoscoping...

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Please recommend some interesting hand-drawn rotoscoping...

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Besides A-Ha's music videos and the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds section of Yellow Submarine, what are some really cool examples of hand-drawn rotoscoping? The more surreal, the better.

(Computer-assisted rotoscoping like Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly doesn't count. I'm looking for the hand-drawn stuff.)

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Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings (1978).
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Dennis Tupicoff, "Chainsaw". A serious and dense movie, completely rotoscopted in a good style. Met the guy once, he's tall! and very nice.
"Alois Nebel" http://www.aloisnebel.cz/?lang=en. They did it nearly completely in AfterFX, tracing keys and then used the AFX tweening to good effect.
Films by Jeff Scher http://fezfilms.net/. You have to look, he's the "animator in residence" for the NY times (what a job!). Works mostly in watercolor, with a beamer on top projecting images down on the paper.
Robert Breer, "Fuji" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HudkC6Oapww from 1974. I like this one, has a dream-like quality.
There's so much more, try to search Cartoonbrew with "rotoscope".
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Thanks, guys! I'm aware of the Bakshi LOTR movie, but I've never seen any of the ones slowtiger recommended. Keep the suggestions coming!
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Courtesy of Gregg, the roto guy on my current job (and, seriously, all this was in his head, which is a little scary). I guess your definition of 'cool' may vary:

Princess Iron Fan: http://archive.org/details/princess_iron_fan

Disney: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland, Lady and the Tramp, Tron
Fleischer: Betty Boop (Bamboo Isle, Crazy town,Minnie the Moocher) Gulliver's Travels, Out of the Inkwell (first use ever, I think), and Superman
Bakshi: Wizards, American Pop, Fire and Ice, Cool World
Bluth: Titan AE, Anastasia
Filmation: He Man and the Masters of the Universe
John Lamb: Tom Waits for No One
Hitchcock: The Birds
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Heavy Metal

Music:
Beastie Boys: Shadrach
Linkin Park: Breaking the Habit
Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
INXS: What You Need
Zero 7: Destiny
Molotov: Frijolero
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Thanks for the excellent suggestions, dm!

FWIW, I'm a Tom Waits fan and had no idea that the "Tom Waits for No One" video existed -- interesting!
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