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Princess Mononoke backstage

Posted on June 23, 2009 Leave a Comment
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A series of videos showing the behind the scenes of Miyasaki’s “Princess Mononoke” surfaced on the Youtube a while ago. I would recommend anyone interested in Miyasaki’s work to watch that really long documentary (3 x 15 videos) showing some exceptional footage from Ghibli’s backstage.

Some interesting moments are when Miyazaki works out the story plot using schematic drawings but also how he goes about choosing colours or framing the action. It is also fascinating to see him working on a messy desk amongst the other artists in a cramped office which is probably the old studio.

From the author:
“This Backstage of Princess Mononoke consists of 3 documentary series directed by Toshio URATANI, who rolled a small VCR for overall of 300 hours (before editing of course!)during his 2-year reporting of Studio Ghibli and its struggles in making the phenomenal animation film Princess Mononoke (released in 1997).

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The 3 series proceed as follows:

The 1st series starts as 1-1/14 and ends at 1-14/14.
The 2nd series starts as 2-1/15 and ends at 2-15/15.
The 3rd series starts as 3-1/15 and ends at 3-15/15 (the end.)

Lastly, the opening phrase of ”Crawl the closest to the ideal point each moment, and the whole those procedures’ll make what one calls the works,” by Ghibli’s Director Hayao Miyazaki, holds true not only for the animators but also for all of whom with any sense of creativity or any kind of ambition.

Enjoy this great series anyway anyhow then ( ;

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