In terms of pure entertainment value? Triplets is better, livelier, funnier. Fantastic Planet is too strange, moves too slowly to ever be as entertaining.
But FP, in its own, weird way, was vastly more influential. Laloux was the animation end of the "Metal Hurlant" movement in France--and in other films, he collaborated with like minded illustrators like Moebius.
Granted, when Heavy Metal hit the US, it came to be defined as "big boobed babes with swords." But the visual aesthetic of those original artists has bled through into the best of modern cinema. Ridley Scott's production design for both Alien and Blade Runner leaned heavily into the Metal Hurlant aesthetic, and more fanatical devotees of the art than me could probably point out dozens of examples.
So do check out FP. You might not enjoy it, but I think you'll find it interesting.
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But FP, in its own, weird way, was vastly more influential. Laloux was the animation end of the "Metal Hurlant" movement in France--and in other films, he collaborated with like minded illustrators like Moebius.
Granted, when Heavy Metal hit the US, it came to be defined as "big boobed babes with swords." But the visual aesthetic of those original artists has bled through into the best of modern cinema. Ridley Scott's production design for both Alien and Blade Runner leaned heavily into the Metal Hurlant aesthetic, and more fanatical devotees of the art than me could probably point out dozens of examples.
So do check out FP. You might not enjoy it, but I think you'll find it interesting.