Sep 28, 2026 · 58 min · 11 segments
“Lost” no más! The once thought to be lost Mexican animated feature Roy Del Espacio (1983) is now out on Blu-ray! In this special Trash-Mex Podcast episode, hosts Armando & Joey alongside Alejandro…
Alejandro VidalGuestJoey DiazHostCeleste de la CabraGuestArmando HernándezHostCan you go in a little bit about the process of animating? I was telling you before we started recording that while I enjoy watching animated movies, I'm not an animation historian or by any means.
So can you just go in a little bit about the process of how they animated the movie and what it took?
Well, as far as we understand, and according, and I have to refer to our book, the one about the history of Mexican animation, they were trying to rotoscope these old Flash Gordon serials, the short films from the 1930s, from 1936, 37.
But as far as Enrique Chea tells us, he's an ex-Carmona, ex-López Carmona-like device, a makeshift rotoscoping machine using a 16-millimeter camera.
But the thing is, the projection was very blurry, and the animators, I mean, the team were tracing the tracing didn't go well.
So essentially they were trying to trace, to rotoscope using as a base material, these Flash Gordon movies.
Later, like Two years ago, somebody found a press article from La Opinion, which is a Spanish-speaking newspaper from California, actually, if I'm not mistaken.
It was a somewhat lengthy article in which Hector Lopez Carmona was explaining how they were working with this.
The machine doesn't exist anymore as far as His grandson told us, told to Dennis and me, I was present during the interview, after the failure of the movie, all that material was just stopped.
But it was a somewhat makeshift and improvised rotoscoping method he justified.
Can you go in a little bit about the process of animating? I was telling you before we started recording that while I enjoy watching animated movies, I'm not an animation historian or by any means.
So can you just go in a little bit about the process of how they animated the movie and what it took?
Well, as far as we understand, and according, and I have to refer to our book, the one about the history of Mexican animation, they were trying to rotoscope these old Flash Gordon serials, the short films from the 1930s, from 1936, 37.
But as far as Enrique Chea tells us, he's an ex-Carmona, ex-López Carmona-like device, a makeshift rotoscoping machine using a 16-millimeter camera.
But the thing is, the projection was very blurry, and the animators, I mean, the team were tracing the tracing didn't go well.
So essentially they were trying to trace, to rotoscope using as a base material, these Flash Gordon movies.
Later, like Two years ago, somebody found a press article from La Opinion, which is a Spanish-speaking newspaper from California, actually, if I'm not mistaken.
It was a somewhat lengthy article in which Hector Lopez Carmona was explaining how they were working with this.
The machine doesn't exist anymore as far as His grandson told us, told to Dennis and me, I was present during the interview, after the failure of the movie, all that material was just stopped.
But it was a somewhat makeshift and improvised rotoscoping method he justified.
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