Talk:The Legend of Frosty the Snowman (20th Anniversary Edition)/@comment-68.224.57.136-20181126172609

Well, according to the lyrics of his theme song written and composed by Peter Cottontail's Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins, Frosty's appearance was that his have not just his corncob pipe, button nose and two eyes made out of coal, but his snow body nearly shaped like a human body with his closely round torso. His same appearance was later reused in The Legend of Frosty the Snowman, but the center of his hat's pink flower was colored lavender instead of blue.

In fact, among all of Rankin/Bass' regular productions and holiday classics, Frosty the Snowman was the first traditional animated project to be outsourced to Mushi Production (or Mushi Studio) in Tokyo, Japan— an animation studio originaly founded in 1961 by Osamu Tezuka, the creator of manga and anime favorites such as Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Ambassador Magma (also known as The Space Giants for P Productions' tokusatsu [special effects] adaptation), who later found his second studio, Tezuka Productions, seven years later on January 23, 1968. The special's overseas animation was supervised by Yusaku "Steve" Nakagawa from Hanna-Barbera.

And speaking of all types of stop motion animation; be them like wooden puppet, cut-out or claymation, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was Rankin/Bass' first Christmas television special. But after The New Adventures of Pinocchio, the special and the feature film, Willy McBean and his Magic Machine, were together in production during 1963, which makes a total of the company's first three "Animagic" projects. The source of "Animagic" was Tadahito "Tad" Mochinaga's MOM Production (or Video Tokyo Production) in Tokyo.

If you like to find out more about Rankin/Bass who adapt both Rudolph and Frosty into American/Japanese animated TV programs, Sasha.cruz.77770, you should collect Rick Goldschmidt's documentary books such as The Enchanting World of Rankin/Bass, The Making of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Arthur Rankin, Jr. Scrapbook: The Birth of Animagic.