Week 4: Analyze the auteur of Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki
His unique imagination makes his plays very distinctive
Delicate painting style
The story focuses on conservation, people and nature, growth and self-discovery

The Panda Family

Miyazaki’s all-around animator talent is revealed in “The Panda Family,” which has a lot in common with the later “My Neighbor Totoro,” in that one person did the original work, the script, the scene setting, the original painting, and the art setting.

Miyazaki Hayao introduced the layout design system into animation for the first time, that is, the split production system of storyboard, design draft, original drawing, and animation. Improve the efficiency and accuracy of animation production.

Miyazaki likes to use emotion to unfold the story, regardless of logic, so that the audience can identify with the story emotionally, rich in romance, and give the audience great pleasure in sensibility.

Hayao Miyazaki directed his first animated series- Conan the Future Boy

Through “Conan the Future Boy”, it can be seen that Miyazaki as a director does not have the ability to produce a close and excellent story of an animated series, which may be one of the reasons why he later turned to animated films.

Valley of Winds

The Valley of the Wind is the famous work of Miyazaki Hayao. In order to make the animation he wants to do, Miyazaki Hayao can achieve success in the market at the same time. It uses elements like machinery, war, science fiction, beautiful girls, and so on, and the propaganda policy at that time is also different. This is also an ability to be a good director – to balance personal artistic pursuits with market demands.

To sum up, Miyazaki Hayao is good at completing the movement performance of the space environment in movement, so he is very good at constructing the worldview. In color design, he also has Ghibli’s unique color system. Good at the use of human actions and natural performance, the characteristics of the story, and the creation of easy-to-understand, low threshold.

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