Hayao Miyazaki is a well known animator and co-founder of Studio Ghibli. Miyazaki had an interest in manga and animation at a young age. In 1963 he started working at Toei animation as an inbetween artist. Later in 1985 Miyazaki co-founded Studio Ghibli and directed several films such as Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service.
In this interview Miyazaki explains his idea behind the film, The Wind Rises. https://www.awn.com/animationworld/the-hayao-miyazaki-interview
Many of Miyazaki’s films emphasized on themes such as environmentalism, love and family.
Studio Ghibli’s animation techniques are traditional and all frames are hand drawn as Hayao Miyazaki believes that ‘hand drawing is the fundamental of animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaO2HEkC_qQ In this video it shows Kazuo Oga paint a background painting. I thought this is really fascinating to see how the artist use techniques and puts in really intricate details in the painting.
I think what sets Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s work apart from others is the storytelling is very unique. Each film has a theme, the theme isnt obvious or told in the film, its subtle in a way. For example in Spirited Away the film focuses on a coming of age theme and you can see a change from the main character from when she was introduced to the end, the main character develops throughout the story. The character designs are very interesting as well and it adds more to the whole style to Studio Ghibli’s and Miyazaki’s work. The artwork and the animation also has a very unique style. The animation is very smooth and life like. The animation is very detailed to the artwork and the animation. Its because of the traditional way of animating by hand that makes it as smooth and dynamic.
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