Word: takahata
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...That much is apparent at the exhibition "Studio Ghibli Layout Designs." While layouts - which are not simple frames but elaborate, annotated illustrations that contain the instructions for a whole sequence of frames - have long been a feature of the industry, Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata took them to a far higher level of complexity, beginning with the drawings for the animé series Heidi, Girl of the Alps in 1974. Today, layouts serve to convey the composition of shots, character positions, scenery, follow-through action, camera angles and more, for takes no more than a couple...
...dishes eaten by Chihiro's parents in Spirited Away (the fateful meal causes them to turn into pigs). But neophytes can get just as much satisfaction from the dynamic quality of the drawings. The opening sequence of 1984's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (a Miyazaki-Takahata film that predated the foundation of Studio Ghibli) is there as a lush forest drawn from high above, with blocks of clouds marked A to D - an instruction to the assembly line to animate them in that sequence, at a speed carefully specified on one of the clouds. In another...
...family that founded Miyazaki Airplane, which manufactured parts for the Zero fighter, he studied economics and political science but preferred reading Moby Dick and Tom Sawyer. After graduation he tossed convention aside by joining an animation production company, where he met his lifelong colleague and sometime creative collaborator, Isao Takahata. They struck out on their own in 1985 with Studio Ghibli?named by Miyazaki, an aircraft buff, after a vintage Italian plane...
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