Well, for 80's Hanna-Barbera, it sure does have art-direction.

You see, back then Rock'n'Roll was all about combing your hair and crashing your car, za-ba-doo-bee-doo-bee-doo-dah...

A significant portion of the intro seems to be taken from various Yellow Magic Orchestra videos which, while awesome, probably wouldn't be considered rock and/or roll.

I seem to remember reading a blog comment from a guy who said he worked on Rock Odyssey. I couldn't find the comment so I'm going from memory. Someone has asked who the girl was and he said his girlfriend had been the model for Laura and the production was a mess. He said management spent too much time doing drugs and not enough time creating a coherent plot. Who knows if I'm confusing Rock Odyssey with another film or if that guy was telling the truth, but it sounds plausible to me.

There's a blog devoted to this film http://rockodysseyart.blogspot.com/

what the hell?

All of that videosynth stuff at the beginning looks like it was stolen from a late 70s VHS tape of trashy video art called just "Odyssey" that I have.

Skip to 6 minutes and it becomes watchable. Otherwise the editing copy and pastes the same scenes 3 times over. Stars for the quality of that minute or so of stuff.