Sorry if this is old news to everyone but I did a search and did not find anything on it.
I just saw this for my first time last night and thought it was absolutely genius. It came out in 2001 so a lot of you have probably already seen it. If you have not then check it out. The way that the animation is made to go along with the music is very well done and the music is great, especially if you are into turntable scratch artist DJs or hip-hop in general. These guys are phenomenal. Also they use some awesome mecha designs several of which are kitbashed models and some digitally drawn and some 3d modeling. I think this is a classic sci-fi animation in its own right.
The movie is called "Wave Twisters"
featuring:
DJ Q-Bert
Yogafrog
D-styles
DJ-Flare
Buckethead
http://www.thudrumble.com/wavetwisters.asp
(from that page):
Wave Twisters is an eye-popping, hip-hop meets Hanna-Barbera, animated adventure synched skratch for skratch with DJ Qbert’s turntable master piece of the same name. Each Track of Q-Bert’s original album was designed to provide the audio framework for another chapter in this sci-fi/kung-fu epic. Every aspect of the story – music, sound effects – even dialogue – has been seamlessly integrated into Q-Bert’s original musical compositions. Wave Twisters gives visual expression to Q-Bert’s narrative while pioneering the concept of visual skratching.
Preview http://www.hiphop-network.com/archives/out...tertrailer1.asp
Buy it: https://www.thudrumble.com/products.aspx?productID=77
YouTube (sample): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rh0M-B2PcM
Some screen grabs of the kitbashed mecha:
I am going to buy this DVD and watch it over and over again. It is incredible stuff.
I have heard that Q-Bert has quite an impressive personal mecha collection too. If anyone has any photos of that please post here.