Art Block Post #11

Konichiwa fellow artist! This time I'm going more towards the animation side of my love for anime/manga style with one of my favorite animators, Hayao Miyazaki!!

Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941 in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. He's a Mangaka, Film Director, and Animator. Miyazaki began his animation career in 1961 working for Toei Animation. He is most known for his movies and his animation studio, which he co-founded with Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli! Miyazaki was led to the animation field when he fell in love with Taiji Yabashita's "The Tale of the White Serpent".  His manga artist influences include: Osamu Tezuka, Tetsuji Fukushima, and Sanpei Shirato.
His films often incorporate recurrent themes like humanity's relationship to nature and technology. Likewise the protagonists of his film are often strong, independent girls or young women. Miyazaki uses very human-like movements in his animation, and much of the art is done using water colors. Unlike American animation, the script and storyboards are created together, and the animation begins before the story is finished. Miyazaki uses traditional animation throughout his films, but has used computer generated animation in some of his films as well. His film "Princess Mononoke" he uses computer generated imagery to give it 'a little boost of elegance'. Digital paint was also used on "Princess Mononoke" in order to meet release deadlines. However before Miyazaki's latest film "Ponyo" Studio Ghibli's computer animation department was dissolved leaving "Ponyo" to be done in traditional hand drawn animation.
Films:
1984- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
1986- Castle in the Sky
1988- My Neighbor Totoro
1989- Kiki's Delivery Service
1992- Porco Rosso
1997- Princess Mononoke
2001- Spirited Away
2004- Howl's Moving Castle
2010 (2008)- Ponyo

Manga:
1969- Puss in Boots
1982-1994- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
2006- A Trip to Tynemouth
2009- Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)
Undated- Sabuku no Tami (People of the Desert), Shuru no Tabi (The Journey of Shuna), The Notebook of Various Images (which was the basis of Porco Rosso)

"Princess Mononoke" was the first animated film to win Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards in 1997. "Spirited Away" topped the box office sales of "Titanic" in Japan, and won Picture of the Year. It was also the first anime film to win Best Animated Feature at the 75th American Academy Awards.