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Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images
- ryankrage77 6y agoYou can bulk download these with wget like so; wget http://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/{ged,chihiro,karigurashi,ponyo,kokurikozaka,marnie,kaguyahime,kazetachinu}{001..050}.jpg However they're low quality 1080p jpegs, so you're better off splitting out the frames of a blu-ray rip of the movie using ffmpeg or something.
- rootsudo 6y agoI did not know I could do {001...999} with wget! wow!
- pxndxx 6y agoThat's a shell feature, not wget's.
- lohfu 6y agoReally? I thought the shell could only expand globs if it matches files on the local file system?
- ses1984 6y agoThoae aren't globs, if you put an asterisk there it would not work.
- falcor84 6y agoYou're right regarding glob functionality, but the curly braces are a separate shell feature. The most useful idiom I use it for is renaming or copying, e.g.: cp filename{,_backup}
- lloeki 6y agoThe feature is called brace expansion: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Brace-Expansion.html#Brace-Expansion https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Brace-Exp... You may also be interested in yet another powerful feature that is parameter expansion: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Parameter-Expansion.html https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Par... Filename expansion (nitpick: often mistaken for globbing) is performed last: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Filename-Expansion.html#Filename-Expansion https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Filename-...
- account42 6y ago> nitpick: often mistaken for globbing What exactly would you call globbing if not the feature that is controlled using the nullglob, failglob, nocaseglob and dotglob options as well as the GLOBIGNORE variable.
- lloeki 6y agoGlobbing has an ambivalent definition given that it’s mostly used for filename matches (especially given its origin as the glob command), but it’s really a specific form of pattern matching using wildcards such as * and ?, it need not apply only to filenames or paths on the filesystem: this matching is also used to match strings in case/in/esac constructs and test’s == != https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Conditional-Constructs https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Condition... I guess one could say globbing is applying this pattern matching to filter a list.
- jasonjayr 6y agoCurl has it built in: curl -O 'https://example.org/[2-4].jpg' (quotes disable any kind of shell expansion)
- kazinator 6y agoYou mean, you didn't know that wget can be given more than one URL argument it can fetch, and that Bash can generate arguments with interpolated numbers using {from...to}.
- SparkyMcUnicorn 6y agoIt isn't bound by command. You can use it everywhere!
- barrkel 6y agoOf course, this only works well with non-ancient bash, not the ancient version which ships with MacOS, which will do {1.999} but can't do the leading zeros (you can use printf '%.3d' as a separate step).
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- yummybear 6y ago...Found the guy who crashed the site ;)
- arkitaip 6y agoIt's really the tragedy of the commons and why we can't have nice things. Ghibli went out of their way and gave something nice, only to have it immediately abused by gluttonous data horders.
- hajhatten 6y agoYeah, it's definetly the ~100 people using a shell script to download a couple of jpegs crashing the site. Not millions of regular people looking around.
- ekianjo 6y agoOut of their way? Releasing a few pictures they already stored digitally hardly seems like a lot of effort.
- poopsmithe 6y agoThis is a nice use case for IPFS. People `ipfs pin` the images to satisfy their data lust, and instantly become part of the growing swarm of computers which are now serving the content to new visitors.
- throwaway8941 6y agoOr just put it on a tracker, like we've been doing for 20 years.
- nicolaslegland 6y agohttps://instant.io/#e371e76f57923f555c0585910420137cd615911a https://instant.io/#e371e76f57923f555c0585910420137cd615911a magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e371e76f57923f555c0585910420137cd615911a
- scns 6y agoCould you upload an archive for the others since the site went down? With the note about usage preferrably.
- the_af 6y ago> However they're low quality 1080p jpegs Good enough for me :) They look nice. Thanks for the wget tip!
- maple3142 6y agoI know shell can expand, but this is my first time seeing somethings like this. I didn't know shell can do things like Cartesian product before.
- kotrunga 6y agoDumb question but I'm getting 404 errors with the wget command (but the urls work fine in the browser). Any advice?
- happy_bear 6y agoI got the same error on zsh, but not on bash
- kotrunga 6y agoI was using fish, wasn't working there either. thanks :)
- eejjjj82 6y agoCheck out https://letsenhance.io/ https://letsenhance.io/ I've been using it for >year to get print quality images. Works great
- Rafael_Milcic 6y agoTo piggyback off this - As a graphic designer, I've tried basically all publicly available upscaling tools, and Gigapixel AI is by far the best one.
- kixiQu 6y agoIf anyone upscales this collection, can they send me a message (all modes of contact on https://maya.land/ https://maya.land/)? I'm happy to send you some $ to be able to download the higher res copies; seems like a waste to do it twice.
- lucascantor 6y agoI've given this a shot using Pixelmator (https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2019/12/17/all-about-the-new-ml-super-resolution-feature-in-pixelmator-pro/ https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2019/12/17/all-about-the-new...) Expect an email with the upscaled images sent via WeTransfer.
- kixiQu 6y agoThanks!! Appreciate it. :) Let me know if you've got a ko-fi or whatnot?
- combatentropy 6y ago> low quality 1080p jpegs imagemagick reports their quality as 75, based on a few I picked at random: identify -format '%Q' marnie007.jpg 75 --- which is not terrible but not great either. The thumbnails are PNG. It's too bad they didn't use that for the full-size ones.
- jordache 6y agogood enough as photo reference!
- feross 6y agoDownload them over WebTorrent directly in your browser: https://instant.io/#e371e76f57923f555c0585910420137cd615911a https://instant.io/#e371e76f57923f555c0585910420137cd615911a magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e371e76f57923f555c0585910420137cd615911a
- ivarv 6y agoonce downloaded to the browser is there an easy to dump the images to disk?
- Santosh83 6y agoWithout addons, I suppose "Save Page" is your only option. Or tediously save each image manually.
- ivarv 6y agoIn firefox the "Save Page" doesn't save the downloaded images. I'll have to investigate the addon options.. So far on Firefox neither "Down them all!" nor "Download All Images" recognized the torrented images.
- nicolaslegland 6y agoLook for the "Download all files as zip" link.
- ivarv 6y ago
- omnimus 6y agoCan somebody say/translate what kind of license is that? Can i use them commercialy? Like for example when demoing a product? Can they be remixed/edited?
- rangibaby 6y agoThe signed note from Miyazaki says "Please use these freely, within the bounds of common sense" > Can i use them commercialy? Like for example when demoing a product? Can they be remixed/edited? Probably not
- GuB-42 6y agoI wish there was a bit more details about that one. I am not into legalese but Studio Ghibli is a Japanese company. What is "common sense" for the Japanese may not be common sense in the west. For example, there is a thriving amateur "doujinshi" community that commonly take copyrighted characters without authorization and make porn manga out of it. There are usually sold at conventions like Comiket and can be found second hand in many of these big stores that all over Akihabara. But at the same time, they take intellectual property very seriously. There is not much piracy there, or it is well hidden. Counterfeit products are rare too. And Japan in general is well known to be a country with many unwritten rules. And foreigners are often considered differently too. Clearly a different culture, and clarifying what "common sense" means could be useful.
- Hamuko 6y ago>For example, there is a thriving amateur "doujinshi" community that commonly take copyrighted characters without authorization and make porn manga out of it. There are usually sold at conventions like Comiket and can be found second hand in many of these big stores that all over Akihabara. It should be kept in mind that doujinshi usually make a loss. It's a hobby and not a business. (Also doujinshi isn't just porn)
- mhh__ 6y ago> Also doujinshi isn't just porn It's called Hentai, and it's art Not really my cup of tea but the craftsmanship is surprisingly impressive from what I've stumbled into in the depths of various forums
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoDid anybody manage to mirror these before the site went down?
- jansan 6y agoSite did not go down.
- lukeramsden 6y agoTook ~6 refreshes before I got it to load, but then all the images loaded instantly, so there's certainly some poor server somewhere struggling quite a bit.
- kzrdude 6y agoIn some cases, wouldn't it make sense to submit this URL for example behind a transparent cdn - if there are any sensible such services remaining.
- 2bitencryption 6y agono source on this, but the story I heard is that Japan recently passed a law which makes sharing screenshots to be equatable to piracy. This prompts Studio Ghibli to publicly release many screenshots under a "do whatever you want" license so people can continue discussing the films. edit: possibly related: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/27/national/japan-limits-scope-illegal-downloading-copyrighted-work/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/11/27/national/japan-...
- bigdict 6y agoWouldn't it be up to the studio to initiate such lawsuits anyway?
- fireattack 6y agoThis was/is exactly another shitstorm in Japan years ago (I didn't remember if it made into copyright law already or not) as part of the effort for joining TPP: ".. to allow for the prosecution of copyright infringement without the need for a formal complaint from the original creator or rightsholder". [1] [1] https://www.icmp-ciem.org/news/japan-government-tackle-copyright-infringement https://www.icmp-ciem.org/news/japan-government-tackle-copyr... Japanese Wikipedia article has more info: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E8%91%97%E4%BD%9C%E6%A8%A9%E6%B3%95%E3%81%AB%E3%81%8A%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B%E9%9D%9E%E8%A6%AA%E5%91%8A%E7%BD%AA%E5%8C%96 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E8... )
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- Larrikin 6y agoMy information may be slightly outdated since I don't live there anymore, but when I did the research before moving to Japan a few years back I found that Japan had recently passed some of the strictest digital piracy laws in the world but had never actually prosecuted anyone for it.
- thereyougo 6y agoI'm always shocked by how creative the Japanese illustrators are. It's mind blowing
- newsbinator 6y agoCould you share some examples that would be mind blowing? I'm not well versed in Japanese animation, and I'd like to understand what the "next level talent" aspects are.
- gjkood 6y agoFor me, watching "Spirited Away"[1] was my mind blowing introduction to beautiful Japanese animation and Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli in particular. As a child I used to watch a lot of the Japanese Robot related animations. A precursor to Transformers I guess. I also remember 'Kimba, the White Lion' which later got reincarnated as Disney's Lion King. But nothing held a candle to the beautiful animation of Spirited Away. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- philshem 6y agoI’m watching Spirited Away now. Impressive.
- HideousKojima 6y agoVisually at least, I think Akira is one of the most visually impressive animated films ever, especially for something made in the 80's when quality standards were much lower
- codyjones 6y agoThere is a scene half way through "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya" that blew my mind. A little context is necessary though. Like many Ghibli women, the princess was free spirited. However, she let herself be reformed into a bland and meek woman. She did this only to please her well-meaning but dim father. Eventually her mind breaks and she runs away. Her expensive clothes fly out from behind her. The formerly restrained artwork becomes wild, thick charcoal lines that jump around. Even the normally static moon shakes in the sky. It was beautiful, and I loved how the style changed to match the princess' emotions.
- izietto 6y agoDoes anyone think it might be a problem if I implement a lorem image based on these images? I mean, could I have license issues due to that?
- raindropm 6y agoGot some nice wallpapers here. Thanks Ghibli!
- atentaten 6y agoAs someone who has watched and enjoyed some of the films from Studio Ghibli, but fails to appreciate the reason for releasing these images, can someone explain what this is all about?
- sirn 6y agoJapan has a very limited fair use law (see also Article 30[1]) to the point that a single frame capture from an anime is considered gray area unless it was used as a reference (引用) with a proper copyright attribution in the format of "(c) <Year> <Author>" usually obtained by visiting that work's home page^1. Though there's no clear line what is counted as a reference. I think this is just Ghibli open up the possibility of using these images in those gray area (e.g. posting these shots on social media, referencing from a blog, etc.) [1]: https://www.cric.or.jp/english/clj/cl2.html https://www.cric.or.jp/english/clj/cl2.html ^1: e.g. for http://www.ghibli.jp/works/chihiro/ http://www.ghibli.jp/works/chihiro/ it is "© 2001 Studio Ghibli・NDDTM"
- leksak 6y agoWould it be legal/illegal to vectorize these images and print T-shirts and sell? Not that I'm going to do it, I like my bathtub too much to do silkscreen stuff at home but curious about the legalese.
- sirn 6y agoIANAL, some will say it is OK under the private use cause in Article 30 as long as you print it yourself, but some will say it's not since you're wearing it in public thus it no longer become private use. I'm not aware if the private use cause in situation like this ever been tested on court. Ghibli saying "within common sense" doesn't help clear this case either.
- numpad0 6y agoAppears briefly discussed in their magazine article but I don’t have access to full quotes, gist of it is trying to protect rights could accelerate obsolescence contrary to intent: https://twitter.com/ockeysan/status/1307119386235461637 https://twitter.com/ockeysan/status/1307119386235461637 https://twitter.com/nmisaki/status/1306950045091139585 https://twitter.com/nmisaki/status/1306950045091139585 https://twitter.com/doridori/status/1307554413406384129 https://twitter.com/doridori/status/1307554413406384129
- lmilcin 6y agoSo how this is HN material?
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoAnime fandom has had a significant overlap with computer nerds and hackers probably for longer than the majority of people reading this post have been alive. Anyway, as the guidelines point out "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."
- jfax 6y agoThe reuse terms of these images are pretty curious, "within the bounds of common sense".
- MrXOR 6y agoThanks for sharing this. I am a big fan of Hayao Miyazaki and Pete Docter.
- rafaelvasco 6y agoLove Ghibli's art style so much. It's timeless;
- neves 6y agoThere are some movies I've never seen. Now that Ghibli can be found in streaming, which movies are in "you can't miss" category?
- umvi 6y agoI personally like Castle in the Sky the best, not because it has the best animation (it doesn't), but because it was the first Ghibli movie I saw. It captured my imagination in the same way Chrono Trigger did. Plus Mark Hamill does his trademark over-the-top villain which is always fun. Fun fact - Level-5 appears to have casually plagiarized this movie in their game "Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy". I mean, check out the evidence in this blog article: https://thewolfthatfellforlittlered.tumblr.com/post/93741989928/professor-layton-and-the-azran-legacy-vs-castle-in https://thewolfthatfellforlittlered.tumblr.com/post/93741989...
- pacaro 6y agoIf you like castle in the sky and live in or visit Seattle, then you may want to check out https://castleintheskyrobot.tumblr.com/post/183937582881/spring-33019 https://castleintheskyrobot.tumblr.com/post/183937582881/spr... which a friend of mine made and has in his front yard. People make offerings
- a_e_k 6y agoThat's pretty awesome! I'll have to check that out on my next walk. BTW, 5 blocks due east of there (by street numbering), I ran across a house decorated with a Totoro theme -- a bus stop sign by the driveway labelled for the Cat Bus, soot sprites on the garage door, small Totoros looking out the window, etc.
- tyrust 6y agoMy wife and I have been going through the films from the beginning. We're only up to '95 and they've all been great so far. I think that (in the US at least) Isao Takahata's works are underappreciated. I only knew him for Grave of the Fireflies (which is the best movie that I will never watch again). For example, Pom Poko is a wonderfully bizarre film that I'd suggest anyone watch.
- lanius 6y agoYou may also be interested in the background images Studio Ghibli released for use as virtual backgrounds in online meetings: http://www.ghibli.jp/info/013251/ http://www.ghibli.jp/info/013251/
- M5x7wI3CmbEem10 6y agois there a way to bulk download these?
- toyg 6y agoThey all have individual names so wget won’t work, but you can use a browser-based mass-downloader of images linked from a page.