Hayao Miyazaki was born on January 5, 1941 and currently works as an animator, director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He is known for co-founding Studio Ghibli, which is a major animation company based in Japan. His work deals with the relation between humans and nature, with the rise in technology and civilization interfering with the once peaceful relation. In the article linked below, Miyazaki is known as the "greatest animator and filmmaker since the advent of the form in the early 20th century." Additionally, the writer emphasized Miyazaki's belief of using traditional materials to begin animations. This includes creating watercolor hand drawn depictions of the characters to lay them out. This approach is rather interesting to me as it combines both the traditional methods of making art with new computerized methods later in the process. This can be seen on the drawing to the top left, which is Hayao Miyazaki's watercolor image board of Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke (1997). I love the style he used and the different sketches he did here to make the image board, putting into perspective what was going on inside his head while Miyazaki made this character.
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