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Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki [video]
- jandrese 8y agoI love Miyazaki films and their hand drawing is beautiful, but this article is kind of funny in how he retired in 2013 and went "I wonder if there is any merit to these weird 'computers' people keep talking about?" Then he spends the next 5 years twiddling around with them and decides that yes, apparently the world was right and they are in fact useful for animation.
- cerebrum 8y agoIn 2013 he was 72 years old.
- aasasd 8y agoCGI was used in Spirited Away (afaik), but in very limited quantities. You pretty much can tell the scenes when you see them. Miyazaki retired like a dozen times, nobody believes him anymore. The last one was the last year or 2016, iirc.
- the_af 8y agoIt was also used in limited form in Princess Mononoke.
- aasasd 8y agoHuh, and all this time I thought Spirited Away was the first one—which would also fit with the massive difference in style from the earlier films. It means, though, that their flirtations with CGI go back full two decades to right after the first Toy Story.
- Bokanovsky 8y agoIt's funny you should mention Toy Story. Pixar's John Lasseter is well known to be a friend of Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli even released a DVD of the home movie visit to America titled Thank You, Mr. Lasseter. http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/lasseter/ http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/lasseter/ I remember seeing once that Pixar had a life size Cat-bus from Miyazaki's Totoro installed in their studios. The original home movie DVD release of Spirited Away was also introduced by Lasster.
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- ZenPsycho 8y agotoy story 3 had totoro in it as a toy character.
- bch 8y ago> You pretty much can tell the scenes when you see them. There was one especially, (lamp, leaving Zeniba’s house) that stood out, but I don’t recall others? Give some hints?
- aasasd 8y agoSea water in some scenes was made with CGI. And I believe, though it's not confirmed, that the leaf tunnel was too. It was too bold of me to say ‘can tell the scenes,‘ they are quite subtle—but you can make some guesses on a rewatch if you know about the CGI.
- Bokanovsky 8y agoFrom my understanding Studio Ghibli's been using computers for a long while, just not for CGI. They hand draw the images, scan them in and then digitally colour the images.
- stretchwithme 8y agoThe Kingdom of Dreams and Madness is also pretty interesting. https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Dreams-Madness-English-Subtitled/dp/B00PEJ1T1G https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Dreams-Madness-English-Subtit...
- mholt 8y agoI watched that one. Made me realize how fascinating Hayao Miyazaki really is, and helped me to understand and appreciate his movies more. I would say we need more filmmakers like him, but there's something special about being unique in the ways that he is... that I almost don't want another Miyazaki.
- digsmahler 8y agoYes! This makes me so happy that Miyazaki would unretire and make more movies!
- the_af 8y agoThe clip they show him working on is the short that's shown in the Ghibli Museum! I absolutely love almost everything from Miyazaki, but I wonder what's it like to work with/for him. This short trailer makes it seem he's probably a difficult man... like all great authors, I guess.
- tempotemporary 8y agoHis temper looked much like Steve Jobs
- aasasd 8y agoAfaik Ghibli Museum had a dozen or more short films over time, which are beautiful but aren't widely available. It's Ghibli work that you don't get to see unless you travel there, or unless someone smuggles them out (a couple float around on the web, from what I know).
- Baeocystin 8y agoI felt genuinely bad for the animation team that worked on AI-generated walk/movement when they showed their work to Miyazaki. It was downright brutal. That doesn't change the fact that he has told amazing stories. He is an amazing creator, and has made some of my favorite films. But the hurt in those folks' faces as someone they idolized called what they did 'an insult to life itself'... It was ugly behavior.
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- vanadium 8y agoWatched this on NHK earlier in the year, and it's worth every minute. Fantastic documentary and really gives you a thorough sense of who he is and how he operates.
- aasasd 8y agoWhat do you know, his glasses aren't always connected to his eyebrow ridges, and in fact can come off completely. I was afraid that they've grown in by now.
- ezoe 8y agoAll of the current situation is his own fault. He is a very sadistic overworked animation director who created the good movie at the cost of stressful low wage workers like they are expendable assets. The workers under the Hayao's lead quickly burned out so nobody followed his path. That's why he can't retire but back to work to create more movie. The market should eliminate these inefficient overworked idiot. But current technology can't beat the good hand-made animations so the bad situation continues.
- vertline3 8y agoInteresting viewpoint, I have heard manga artists being overworked. The deadlines are crushing. Studio Ghibli for a long time had to rely on outside animators due to cost, and american studios like Disney fired all of their hand animators. It is a brutal industry.