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Hayao Miyazaki: Studio Ghibli
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In the meantime Miyazaki continues to hone his traditional art-works at Ghibli, his Tokyo animation studio. In the past he has been vocal in his criticism of computer-generated imagery, describing it as "thin, shallow, fake". These days he seems to have made his peace with the beast. He admits that he likes Toy Story because it opened the doors to a new breed of animation and even admits to using CGI in his own movies (but never more than 10% of the finished print). "Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do," he says. "But it is far too late for me to try it."
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In 2006, Nausicaa.net reported Hayao Miyazaki's plans to direct another film, rumored to be set in Kobe. Among areas Miyazaki's team visited during pre-production were an old café run by an elderly couple, and the view of a city from high in the mountains. The exact location of these places is censored from Studio Ghibli's production diaries. The studio has ... announced that Miyazaki has begun creating storyboards for the film and that they are being produced in watercolor because the film will have an "unusual visual style." Studio Ghibli anticipates a production time of 20 months, with release slated for Summer 2008.
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On January 14, 1998, Miyazaki had announced that he would be leaving Studio Ghibli. His eyesight was failing, and he believed that he could not guarantee as high a quality of art in his motion pictures as he wished. He intended to make small films for the Studio Ghibli Museum—insisting that the museum should be full of children being noisy—and to train young animators. Yet on January 16, 1999, he returned as the shocho, or leader, of Studio Ghibli, taking a strong role in asserting organizational discipline and focusing employees on their tasks. Using computer animation to help maintain artistic control of his creations, he directed the fine The Cat Returns (2002), which featured the Baron from Whispers of the Heart, and Lord Howl's Castle (2004), based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones.
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Miyazaki's directorial debut was Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa 1984). The film introduced what would become many of his staple themes throughout his directorial career: war, ecology, totalitarianism, self-reliance, coming of age, flight, gender roles, and villains who are not entirely evil. The film was adapted from Miyazaki's manga series of the same name, which he had started two years earlier. Nausicaa was so successful that Miyazaki was able to leave A Pro and found his own studio, Studio Ghibli, Inc.
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Shortly after, Hayao began working on his follow-up effort, the 1984 futuristic epic Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds, for which he received some of the best reviews and notices of his career. The film announced Hayao as a major new talent in the world of animation and gave him the confidence to establish his own studio with two filmmaking friends. They called it Studio Ghibli.
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For those less familiar with Studio Ghibli, it's a Japanese animation studio that was founded in 1985 by two of animation’s greatest creators Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Known as Japan’s premiere animation studio, its name comes from the word the Italians used for their Saharan scouting planes in World War II, which derived from the Libyan “sirocco”, a hot wind blowing through the Sahara Desert. Studio Ghibli was to blow a new wind into the Japanese animation industry and indeed it has!
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