This Board's Seeming Hatred of Studio Ghibli

[Ashitaka]

I have seen Spirited Away and I enjoyed the film. I'm not sure what substances the author was on, but it made for an interesting story.

However, the animation - that is the moving image - lacks weight, fluidity and subtlety. Just as I'll say the same about the character of Anakin Skywalker in Episodes II and III of Star Wars

Soooo, you thought the Jake Lloyd version of Anikan in Episode I had weight and subtlely??

 

[barnum42]

Soooo, you thought the Jake Lloyd version of Anikan in Episode I had weight and subtlely??

Compared to Episodes II & III he was straight out of The English Patient :lol:

 

[Ashitaka]

Compared to Episodes II & III he was straight out of The English Patient :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[wdwswan&dolphin]

You may not want to compare it to Pokémon or whatever, but do you think that, if not for the anime craze, Disney would even bother to import it and release it worldwide?

American companies have tried to get the rights to Studio Ghibli's films for distribution in the USA for more than 20 years, long before the anime craze began.

--Why are the American (animated) films afraid of the silence, the moment of pause?--

 

[barnum42]

--Why are the American (animated) films afraid of the silence, the moment of pause?--

You've lost me there - care to expand on your statement?

 

[brownie]

*bump*

I love Studio Ghibli films!

There's Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, The Cat Returns and several others that I've seen and enjoy very much.

I'm not a big fan of the animation, but I don't dislike it. I recently read somewhere that Hayao Miyazaki refuses to have more than 10% of his movies animated with computers. I really respect how he wants to stick to the traditional animation.

 

[BellhopMicah]

I love all of Miyazaki's films! Princess Mononoke and My Neighbor Totoro are some of my favorite movies. ^_^

 

[BellhopMicah]

The Anime shows themselves are great...shows like Fullmetal Alchemist or Samurai Champloo or Revolutionary Girl Utena. Just don't go looking for fully-realized animation. That's probably why everybody is disappointed. It's a different kind of animation, and people think it's crap because it's not the industry standard. That doesn't mean it's bad...it's just a different way to express the emotions of characters.

Out of topic, but Revolutionary Girl Utena rocks! =D

 

[KevinPage]

Warren Savage wrote, "American audiences are 'trained' to look for certain things: full animation (every moving object changes every frame); 'rubberband' animation with a lot of ease-ins, ease-outs and overshoots; exact lip-sync; exaggerated body language and facial expressions; <ADD here list this to>. (I wanted to add the double-bounce walk, but it might not really fit into this list.)

If they don't see these things in sufficient quantity, they seem to judge the animation as being cheaper.

They're not trained to notice: Detailed backgrounds; subtle shifts between background elements to create an illusion of a moving camera; subtle changes in a character's facial expressions (even when a character is shown frozen still and staring at something, the animators will probably animate the glints in his or her eyes); group or crowd scenes with many characters independently animated; subtle character acting; 'camera' dollies, trucks and cranes (these shots take a LOT of time to animate; <.add to this list here>.

Take heed.