Dune

So there's a need or there's a want for this genre.

Yeah, Conan just kind of set that off and Italians are doing a bunch of stuff and, you know, Sand Dune, so...

And Bakshi's key idea was to collaborate with his friend, Frank Frazetta, and create an animated world that would approximate Frazetta's paintings.

The project originally carried the extremely straightforward working title, Sword and Sorcery.