These spindly and fragile looking spacecraft are still’s taken from the 1982 French Animated Film ‘Les Maîtres du temps’ (The Masters of Time, a.k.a. Time Masters) directed by René Laloux and designed by Moebius. I have to admit that I’d never actually heard of this until I saw it featured over on Eric Carl’s excellent Blog.Sans-Concept.
Full post here: http://blog.sans-concept.com/?p=293 and check the full stills set at: http://flickr.com/photos/mr_carl/sets/72157612581774973/
In my opinion, pretty much any French Sci-Fi automatically qualifies as extremely interesting, and ‘Les Maîtres du temps’ certainley fit’s the bill! Also worthy of more reading; the career of Animator & Director René Laloux (July 13, 1929–March 13, 2004) most famous for ‘La Planète Sauvage,’ (Fantastic Planet 1973). Check his wonderfully bizarre 1965 Short film ‘Les Escargots’ : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXn6d13YC0 a parable of Nuclear Holocaust?
Those are simple fantastic! I’m going to have to find a copy of that movie.
Comment by SerKevin — January 19, 2009 @ 1:21 pm
I know it looks wicked… http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095525/ < < here’s another 80’s animation by the same director…. Ruining the surprise of all my future material here! – never mind
French Sci-Fi Rules!
Comment by Kie — January 19, 2009 @ 6:14 pm
OMG!!! I have been desperate to remember this wonderful film from my childhood….and now you have provided me with the name!
A thousand thank-you’s!!!!!
Comment by EvilEuropean — February 24, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
Hey no worries! As I said actually borrowed the content from Eric Carls’s http://blog.sans-concept.com/?p=293
Comment by Kie — February 24, 2009 @ 3:24 pm