Bass productions of  _Hobbit, The (1977) (TV)_ (qv) and  _Return of the King, The (1980) (TV)_ (qv), and was their final  collaboration. Topcraft was then hired by Tokuma Shoten and  Hayao Miyazaki (qv) to make his 1984 landmark  _Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)_ (qv) (Nausicaa of the Valley of  Wind). In 1985, when Miyazaki and Isao Takahata (qv) formed Studio  Ghibli, most of the major talent at Topcraft was brought on board.