Totally Trippy Retro Animatic For The Hobbit

Boring.

Seriously, this thing sets some kind of record for the number of times I've paused a video and said "wait, WHAT?" It actually makes Ralph Bakshi and Rankin & Bass seem restrained by comparison, and that's damn impressive. Even the Leonard Nimoy Bilbo Baggins song was a better retelling of the tale.

OK, so I'm going to tell the story of the Hobbit. Only, no dwarves. Or elves. Or wargs, eagles, Battles of Five Armies, or anything else. And change the names of Smaug and Gollum. Also, "troll" and "goblin" sound too weird, so make up some names for those, and turn the trolls into trees instead of stone for no apparent reason. Also don't give Thorin or Gandalf anything to do, really. But add a crossbow made of refuse, a guardsman who literally has no role in the story, and oh yeah, a child-princess who ickily falls in love with and partners up with the middle-aged hobbit protagonist. Also, circular mountain range!

Man, that trumps the "Beatles Lord of the Rings" project as the most ill-advised Tolkien-related project that thankfully never got off the ground, ever.

this was interesting but like the movie... not very good...too far from the book

@Azog: it should be more clearly noted exactly what an animatic is: An early stage in the animation process where the story board is taken off the board (in this case coloured) and film to give the film makers a sense of the movement.

This step would have been followed by the final animation, should look up "Gene Dietch" on youtube to see examples of how this might have looked finished.

But I agree whole heartedly, I don't know much about the book, but the extremely little I do know of tolkiens world tells me that this is horrible adaptation of his story. saying it's like a "fractured" fairytale, might be true in more ways than one.