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Originally posted by artificial sky
Goro as a director... how weird. This is his first project and they made him director. Mostly, you have to be a key animator or something before becoming a director. Has Goro ever animated anything. I have no knowledge of this. We know he can draw still things, plan ahead and think out complicated problems because of his past work experience... but animation? I hope he has more experience than I think in this part. Because knowledge of animation is vital. How unfair... just because he is Miyazaki's son. I hope he proves to be worthy. >>;
Miyazaki is know for many things but the thing that most animators praise him for is his realistic approach to characters. His characters have a lot of life and movement depite their simple design. Their expressions are well thought out and their behavior in taken into a lot of account. For example, that Pixar guy (the ALWAYS introducing Miyazaki's films to the point where it's annoy) mentions the way Chihiro put's on her shoe. He said, exactly like a 10 year old would put it on. Checking to see if it's confortable. And Miyazaki himself mention that he had to redraw several cells (was it 2,000 or something) because their expression weren't done correctly. o__o;; And there is one scene in Laputa where the back ground (I mean all of it) was animated for like 10 seconds. Apparently, no one ever does that with cell shaded animation. Things like that... I don't think we will see. From what I can tell, we shall see a lot of detailed landscapes and dramatic use of lighting but I don't know about the other things. From the trailer, his character lack expression and looked kind of bored :/ or just jaded. X/
Takahata, who is not an animator by any stretch and is simply a great director and writer of animated films, started as assitant director on "Anju to Zushiomaru" in 1963 with no previous knowledge of animation either. Just wanted to point that out, to use that in comparison with Miyazaki Goro.
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“Miyazaki is the greatest living animator… His frames are brilliantly, sunnily ‘lit’, with exhilarating shifting perspectives and cinematic movement, and a drawing style that is as detailed and dense as Brueghel.” — Philip Lopate, Film Comment
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03.11.2006, 08:31 AM
