indie films

This Q&A with Ralph Bakshi spawned this CGtalk thread and this one.

Bakshi's main point is that he started because he felt like no one had the guts to do something new and different. He knew he didn't have the money or even the talent to compete on the same level as Disney. But he also had no interest in playing the Disney game, he wanted to do his own story his own way. I recall hearing that Bakshi didn't let people do tests, they just went and that's what they got(maybe that was Bluth). And he has all those crazy live action backgrounds. He mentions that Plympton's the only one doing his own films, but in today's world with today's technology all you need is a computer instead of a studio to make movies. Granted he's talking about 2D movies, but this is similar to some ideas Keith Lango was throwing around, about not trying to compete with the big boys in the same arena, do something they can't do so you can do it in a reasonable amount of time, on your own. (an example of that series of posts)

anyway, food for thought