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1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)
- dtgriscom 11mo agoGorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. Spirited Away's image of a train moving through shallow water has always grabbed me. https://www.ghibli.jp/works/chihiro/#&gid=1&pid=43 https://www.ghibli.jp/works/chihiro/#&gid=1&pid=43
- all2 11mo agoI dunno what it is, but whenever I see it I feel as if I have been there before.
- echelon 11mo agoAs much as I love Spirited Away and Castle in the Sky, I've been so bummed Miyazaki hasn't returned to more adult storylines. Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa are two of my top ten films. I'd do anything to have Miyazaki make one more. I even bought Miramax's old marketing website and kept it online [1]. I was lucky enough to teach English in Hokkaido [2], which is where Ghibli animators drew inspiration for Princess Mononoke. It's such a beautiful place, and you can feel it in the film. [1] http://www.princess-mononoke.com/ http://www.princess-mononoke.com/ (I should get SSL certs but I haven't touched it in years.) [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035689 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035689
- treyd 11mo ago> I'd do anything to have Miyazaki make one more. He's "retired" like 3 times now, you might not have to do very much.
- take-five 11mo ago> As much as I love Spirited Away and Castle in the Sky, I've been so bummed Miyazaki hasn't returned to more adult storylines. What about "The Wind Rises"?
- Lucasoato 11mo agoPlease, don’t make me cry like that.
- kataklasm 11mo agoThe Wind Rises is my favorite Ghibli, something about it just draws me in like no other. Don't get me wrong, I love Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away like the next person, but The Wind Rises is special to me.
- PacificSpecific 11mo agoNausicaa was definitely his best work. It was also one of his earlier works and that can be hard to recapture.
- fsloth 11mo agoI love Nausicaa but I would argue technically it has some weaknesses in the narrative and pacing compared to later works. So in case someone comes to this without previous exposure Nausicaa may not be the best place to start. It _is_ nice.
- zeograd 11mo agoI'd love to see the original manga story animated. There are so many beautiful scenes and plots missing from the movie... However, it couldn't just be a sequel of the movie, as it diverged from the manga story line near the end.
- rhardih 11mo agoLooking at [1] really took me back to those early days of the web. It was a special time. Thank you for that. Depending on how it's hosted, giving it a letsencrypt certificate isn't too much of a hassle. I'd be happy to help.
- armenarmen 11mo ago> I even bought Miramax's old marketing website and kept it online That’s awesome, private sale or did they let it drop?
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- naet 11mo agoWell I just scraped the hell out of that. Some very pretty images. I know it is labor intensive, but they really put the effort into a massive amount of hand drawn frames for some of these movies and it shows in the final product.
- ycombinete 11mo agoWhat did you use to do the scraping?
- caconym_ 11mo agoI don't know what he did, but I gave gemini-cli the url and asked for a script. The LLMs are pretty good at this sort of simple but tedious implementation.
- exasperaited 11mo agoAnd nothing of value was gained.
- caconym_ 11mo agoTrue if you think the images have no value, nor the time I saved by "outsourcing" the work, but writing the kind of trivial web scraper I've written N times before somehow does. Personally I would disagree!
- stevenwliao 11mo agoIt might have been that the OP wanted to try for themselves using an app or some source code.
- caconym_ 11mo agoThey are welcome to do so! I encourage anyone who finds this scraping problem interesting to approach it in whatever way they find the most rewarding!
- vunderba 11mo agoAlways happy to see stills from my favorite Ghibli film, "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind".
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- mekpro 11mo agoThey are so beautiful that i dont want any of these been stole by AI.
- danielbln 11mo agoThey are no less beautiful nor are they gone after some gradient descent has slithered over them, so worry not.
- p-e-w 11mo agoIt’s strange and highly unpleasant to watch people treat something as a zero-sum game that is decidedly not one.
- spencerflem 11mo agoNo, I get it. AI has the effect of making whatever it creates feel worthless. Something AI made says “this wasn’t worth spending any time on. It’s not something important ” Seeing something you care about become part of that Sucks.
- p-e-w 11mo agoThat idea is incomprehensible to me. I see value (or lack of it) in what I have in front of me, not in how much a person had to struggle and suffer for it to come into existence. Either something is good or it’s not. Creating something good can sometimes take a lot of effort, but it’s not the effort that makes it good. Otherwise digging a hole and filling it back up would be a valuable undertaking.
- spencerflem 11mo agoNo, it doesn’t have to take effort, but that does mean that someone genuinely cares. Like, I love blog posts. Really do, I’ll read anyone’s about anything. Someone thought of something and cared about it and put it into the world and that’s wonderful. But someone making an AI post doesn’t care. And worse, it makes anyone who does care feel silly, like, why am I wasting my time on this thing that’s so worthless that whatever the first thing the computer spits out is good enough for them
- qmmmur 11mo agoI'm so glad that this is available so some cretin with TPUs can train the next culturally and morally compromised generative model.
- Fuzzwah 11mo agoOr maybe the next great story teller to create something meaningful that touches people in ways that change their mental model of the world. Perhaps allowing them to find the positives in new technologies. Or, you know... Slop. An open mind doesn't hurt though.
- exasperaited 11mo ago> Or maybe the next great story teller to create something meaningful that touches people in ways that change their mental model of the world. How many pieces of AI art can you actually remember? I mean, call to mind in the same detail as you can remember a photograph? I think AI generated imagery is fundamentally compromised somehow in this regard: something subliminally uncanny, no matter how realistic, makes them harder to recall. For this reason I personally doubt AI generated art will ever have a profound effect on people. Because it really seems to lack the mechanism.
- spencerflem 11mo agoBecause it is the devaluation of art. If the medium is the message, then the message of any AI production is that the correct amount of time to care about this thing is zero seconds.
- exasperaited 11mo agoWell it is that but I think it is also that it is, at some informational level, fundamentally incoherent and unreal. It looks fine, but it is not anything. It has no intent in the art strokes (which I think always shows in geometry), it has no reality in the lighting of a photo. It may be, I concede, that I see more AI-generated photos than other art types (AI generated photo fraud is a serious issue in a corner of the web I frequent) but I tend to find that I literally can't remember what they look like long after I see them. Same exercise, focussing on faces specifically: - try to visualise Taylor Swift's face. Or that of Rachel Weisz or Ming-Na Wen, or Sarah Silverman, or Alfre Woodard. - now try to visualise the face of Tilly Norwood. Obviously if you don't know who any of these people are, you can't do this exercise (which is why I included Taylor Swift). And if you don't know what Tilly Norwood is, you can't do this exercise. But if you've seen a lot of content about Tilly Norwood, can you visualise the face in the same way? Is it memorable? It is not. It is my contention that these images actually have something very undefinable missing, that my brain needs to find them worth memorising. I have seen many "AI models" now and I can't remember any of "their" faces.
- fishbacon 11mo agoI swap back and forth between favorit movies. Every few days it may be Goodfellas. Some days it is The Room. But I always return to Kiki’s delivery service and Howls moving castle. Both are absolutely gorgeous and incredibly well told. I also find myself quoting porco rosso a lot lately. This a treasure trove of gorgeous lockscreen images. Very excited to put them into rotation.
- ant6n 11mo agoThe room? “… ohai Mark!”
- schrectacular 11mo agoHave you seen "The Fall"?
- genezeta 11mo agohttps://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/mimi011.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/mimi011.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/marnie004.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/marnie004.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/ponyo005.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/ponyo005.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/ged023.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/ged023.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/majo002.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/majo002.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/totoro001.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/totoro001.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/laputa037.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/laputa037.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/umi003.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/umi003.jpg Sometimes they arrive after much adventure. Sometimes arriving is a discovery. Sometimes it's not an end but the beginning of something. Sometimes it's a departure. They all look forward, taking us with them, into whatever awaits.
- rightbyte 11mo ago> https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/ged023.jpg https://www.ghibli.jp/gallery/ged023.jpg Which one is that? Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind? edit: No the castle in that looks nothing like it.
- Erwin 11mo agoTales from Earthsea aka "Gedo Senki". Badly reviewed but I enjoyed it.
- rightbyte 11mo agoOh yeah haven't seen it due to bad reviews. Maybe I should give it a try someday. I mean I sat through the whole of Pom Poko! I guess you need to dare to have all those full blown hits, which might disappoint from time to time.
- crossroadsguy 11mo agoI am not clicking on that link. Few stills of Grave of the Fireflies and I will have to place order for fresh tissue boxes.
- throwaway613745 11mo agoOne of the best movies I have ever seen and I will never watch it again as long as I live. Emphasis on never.
- foo42 11mo agoI am in a position I suspect many would be envious of. I've never seen any of these films. My first experience waits ahead! Where should I begin? I have kids in the 10-15 year old bracket if people think they'd make a good family experience.
- ant6n 11mo agoI’d start win this order: Spirited away Howls moving castle Princess Mononoke Castle in the sky Nausicaa
- krapp 11mo agoSpirited Away.
- Zealotux 11mo agoSpirited Away is my absolute favorite one and I think great for children too. Mononoke, Porco Rosso, and Nausicaa are maybe more serious/mature but still incredible. Other valid options especially for children: Totoro, Ponyo, Howl's Moving Castle. In any case you're in for an adventure!
- pvibby762 11mo agoThe order as presented in letterboxd is pretty spot on. The first 8 are the most accessible to audiences. After that it is more for a deep dive and/or completionists. I've seen the top 11, I should probably watch them all again sometime. https://letterboxd.com/director/hayao-miyazaki/ https://letterboxd.com/director/hayao-miyazaki/
- junon 11mo agoThis is a good order for sure. Enjoy it GP, these are some of the most beautiful, bizarre, otherworldly pieces of art ever created.
- MPSimmons 11mo agoWarning: I thought the first 10 minutes of Up were the saddest thing I'd ever watch, but then I watched Grave of the Fireflies.
- rcarmo 11mo agoI hope someone gets this into the Internet Archive as a tidy ZIP so we don’t have to scrape them… I’ve just pushed https://github.com/rcarmo/python-fastapi-trmnl-server https://github.com/rcarmo/python-fastapi-trmnl-server and these images are going to look great as part of the rotation. Edit: someone apparently did - https://www.tumblr.com/three-thousand-worlds/169781667311/studio-ghibli-stills-links https://www.tumblr.com/three-thousand-worlds/169781667311/st...
- smusamashah 11mo agoFew images I have looked at include the characters as well. When I watched "When Marine Was There" I loved the background stills and wanted to use them as wallpaper or something. The house with the lake looked otherworldly to me. I don't know how to navigate this website and if it even contains the backgrounds only. Does it have those, are Ghibli movie backgrounds available anywhere else?
- SenHeng 11mo agoCan someone explain why the Ghibli films are so popular? I’ve been on a Ghibli binge this week because my wife can’t believe that I’ve never watched any of their films so we’ve watched 1 a day. I wasn’t intentionally avoiding them, they just didn’t seem interesting based on the few clips I’ve seen. Having watched a few, my opinion is unchanged. I enjoyed them, I just don’t ‘get’ the craze. While the films are generally beautifully animated, I simply couldn’t get into the stories nor understand why they’re so highly acclaimed. I say this as an anime fan and a fairly typical otaku. The stories don’t really have a proper conclusion, it’s often a pattern of a thing happened, let’s undo the thing, life goes on. The Japanese voice acting is often quite bad as Miyazaki seems to have a very thing against using professional voice actors. The music’s cool though. - Nausica - Raputa - Totoro - Mononoke - Spirited away - Howl
- NalNezumi 11mo agoIf you're an Otaku it's not too surprising you don't like Ghibli. Ghibli is quite atypical and the reason it got popular is because it's not like the standard anime, that people used to look down on, in the 80s and forward until maybe 2015 when it got normalized. >The stories don’t really have a proper conclusion, it’s often a pattern of a thing happened, let’s undo the thing, life goes on. One could say this about Ghost in the Shell, Akira, and even Evangelion too. I personally think that Ghibli is popular because it gives a sense of nostalgia, a beautiful depiction of nature and it feels alive because the care that goes in to the background and background characters movement. It feel less like a theater, a story crafted to entertain, and more just like a snapshot of life of someone/something that will go on after the movie ends. Also as for music. If you watched the American version, they've actually changed many scenes and added additional music. Disney said that American populace couldn't watch a scene where no music is present for happens for more than 3 min so they had to add some extra music. [1] [1] https://youtu.be/jM6PPxN1xas?si=pqBBNhnKtujxs4kt https://youtu.be/jM6PPxN1xas?si=pqBBNhnKtujxs4kt
- SenHeng 11mo ago> If you're an Otaku it's not too surprising you don't like Ghibli. That’s definitely something I felt the whole time. They’re anime for non-anime fans. Story-wise, Gits and Akira do have a kind of logical story progression. I don’t understand Eva too. Cool visuals though. Let’s take Princess Mononoke as an example. The Main Character goes west in search for something, discovers a Japanese Industrial Revolution underway led by some lady Eboshi. Eboshi and tall shoes guy kill a god, causing massive death and destruction, but they returned the god’s head at the end and suddenly everything is forgiven. Mononoke’s adopted mom is dead, several tribes of boars are dead, thousands of people are dead, the industrious village is destroyed and large numbers of their inhabitants sent to die in an ambush by their own boss but it’s all OK, because the people that started it ended it by returning something they stole. What? Similar thoughts for Raputa and Howl.
- workfromspace 11mo agoA movie theater in my city (northern europe) shown both Kiki's Delivery Service and Howl's Moving Castle. It was just pure joy to watch them in big screen. I wish they were remastered in 4K, though.