Hayao Miyazaki Is Directing A Computer Animated Film

[Shaka Zulu]

Hayao Miyazaki, the retired/unretired animation legend who is indelibly associated with hand-drawn film-making, is directing his first computer animated film.

The ten-minute short, which will star a caterpillar named Boro and will be displayed at the Ghibli Museum, is expected to take Miyazaki three years to make, according to a report on Anime News Network. It is not clear what stage the film’s production is at, or how much longer it will take to finish it.

“[Hayao] gets bored when his goal is maintaining [the Ghibli Museum], so he needs things to fiddle around with,” his son Goro Miyazaki said at an event last month as explanation for why his 74-year-old father was making a CG film.

Hayao Miyazaki Is Directing A Computer Animated Film


This is great news, and shows that at age 74 a great creator can embrace current technology and not be a complete Luddite like most people nowadays who want pen and ink cel animation to rule over everything (a trait shared with Ralph Bakshi, who's also [I gather] not a Luddite.) A tragedy that said short will only be seen at the Ghibli museum in Japan, though.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Right and even Tomino who is 73 just finished directing G-Reco.

 

[Forbin]

I don't think you need to be called a luddite if you enjoy traditional art.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Yeah. It's like saying anyone who chooses to use a Yamaha grand over a MIDI sequencer is a luddite.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

"Anime was a mistake."-Hayao Miyazaki

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I don't think you need to be called a luddite if you enjoy traditional art.

Yeah. It's like saying anyone who chooses to use a Yamaha grand over a MIDI sequencer is a luddite.

Yes, the OP is ridiculous in its use of the word Luddite.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

He's a unrepentant perv, and like all "Otaku" is a militarist. His movies should have NEVER been imported.

 

[cultcross]

He's a unrepentant perv, and like all "Otaku" is a militarist. His movies should have NEVER been imported.

You've been warned about this,

Infraction for Trolling, comments to PM.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled thread.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

I don't think you need to be called a Luddite if you enjoy traditional art.

Yeah. It's like saying anyone who chooses to use a Yamaha grand over a MIDI sequencer is a Luddite.

Yes, the OP is ridiculous in its use of the word Luddite.

Sorry, but the people at Cartoon Brew get on my nerves with their anti-CGI bullshit. CGI is being used by a lot of people and companies (including the creator of this fan show) for a reason (lower cost in making an animated series and greater freedom of expression in what one wants to do with characters and environments being a big factor, I'd reckon) and if these people can't see that, that's their problem, not that of the people that use CGI or the populace that like to see the movies.

He's a unrepentant perv, and like all "Otaku" is a militarist. His movies should have NEVER been imported.

If you're referring to me, sir/madame, I'm a small fan of anime (I don't see a lot of it, just some) and I find that it's a great style to do a lot of things in.

As for Miyazaki, his movies are nothing like that.

 

[Hound of UIster]

He's a unrepentant perv, and like all "Otaku" is a militarist.

No he is not. He is certainly very anti-war and sees Article 9 as one of the most cherished aspect of post-War Japan and a clean break from its Imperial Militarist past. If anything he is against the right wingers in the LDP and Abe trying to remilitarize Japan and whitewash the crimes of the Japanese Empire.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I don't think you need to be called a Luddite if you enjoy traditional art.

Yes, the OP is ridiculous in its use of the word Luddite.

Sorry, but the people at Cartoon Brew get on my nerves with their anti-CGI bullshit. CGI is being used by a lot of people and companies (including the creator of this fan show) for a reason (lower cost in making an animated series and greater freedom of expression in what one wants to do with characters and environments being a big factor, I'd reckon) and if these people can't see that, that's their problem, not that of the people that use CGI or the populace that like to see the movies.

No need to apologize. It's simply an incorrect and inappropriate use of the term 'Luddite.' Artists who prefer to express themselves using a particular medium or consumers who prefer a particular medium over another are not necessarily technophobes, as a sweeping use of the term Luddite such as appeared in the OP would imply. Their preferences may simply be due to well-considered artistic reasons.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I don't think you need to be called a luddite if you enjoy traditional art.

Agreed. The Bakshi movies I own on DVD are some of my favorites. Fritz The Cat, Wizards, LOTR and Fire & Ice are good for both the stories and animation.

Heavy Metal (I) is another great animated movie.

I like some CGI stuff too, if it's well done and has a good story. Despicable Me was a great one.

 

[Forbin]

Watched Knights of Sidonia last week - entirely CGI. Loved it.
Watched Attack on Titan before that - mostly traditional cel animation with CGI effects. Loved it.
Watched some good ol' Cowboy Bebop yesterday - entirely had drawn. Loved it.

To paraphrase Colin Powell during Desert Storm, you should use all the tools in your toolbox.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Though with Bakshi, you had a whole different kind of animation in rotoscoping.

Then you've got Harryhausen's stop-motion technique. Sam Raimi even paid tribute to this style in Army Of Darkness.

 

[Forbin]

I always thought Bakshi's rotoscoping was kind of lazy. And there's SO much you can do with animation. Just tracing live action isn't very creative.