After his "urban adult" movies "Fritz the Cat", "Heavy Traffic" and "Coonskin" Ralph Bakshi decided to go for a more family friendly fantasy feel with his next project "War Wizards" ("War" was scrapped after a request by George Lucas to avoid conflict with "Star Wars"). Although some of the material is "edgy" compared to other family entertainment, and it borrows a bit from Vaugh Bode's adult cartoons, this movie did not need an X-rating or cause the controversy its predecessors did.

While much of the rotoscope experimentation was done because of budget reasons it turned out quite effective. Bakshi: ""I thought that if we dropped all the detail, it would look very artistic, and very beautiful, and I felt, why bother animating all of this? I'm looking for a way to get realism into my film and get real emotion."

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