Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki [video]
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Then he spends the next 5 years twiddling around with them and decides that yes, apparently the world was right and they are in fact useful for animation.
Miyazaki retired like a dozen times, nobody believes him anymore. The last one was the last year or 2016, iirc.
It means, though, that their flirtations with CGI go back full two decades to right after the first Toy Story.
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/lasseter/
I remember seeing once that Pixar had a life size Cat-bus from Miyazaki's Totoro installed in their studios.
The original home movie DVD release of Spirited Away was also introduced by Lasster.
There was one especially, (lamp, leaving Zeniba’s house) that stood out, but I don’t recall others? Give some hints?
It was too bold of me to say ‘can tell the scenes,‘ they are quite subtle—but you can make some guesses on a rewatch if you know about the CGI.
https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Dreams-Madness-English-Subtit...
I would say we need more filmmakers like him, but there's something special about being unique in the ways that he is... that I almost don't want another Miyazaki.
I absolutely love almost everything from Miyazaki, but I wonder what's it like to work with/for him. This short trailer makes it seem he's probably a difficult man... like all great authors, I guess.
That doesn't change the fact that he has told amazing stories. He is an amazing creator, and has made some of my favorite films. But the hurt in those folks' faces as someone they idolized called what they did 'an insult to life itself'... It was ugly behavior.
Perhaps it was neither of the two? From a recent Dwango event, the team has shown that they have reflected upon it (if you watch the event, they mentioned a few times that they have been scolded by Miyazaki and even conducted an interview with him[0]) and develop a pretty interesting game called ARTILIFE[1] (tldw; MMO tamagotchi?). Overall it was a good turnaround, I think.
My point exactly. Miyazaki offered them genuine feedback ("a dose of reality") and they, to their credit, apparently acted on it. It was hardly, as the OP posted, "ugly behavior"; if anything, it was "beneficent behavior".
He is a very sadistic overworked animation director who created the good movie at the cost of stressful low wage workers like they are expendable assets. The workers under the Hayao's lead quickly burned out so nobody followed his path.
That's why he can't retire but back to work to create more movie. The market should eliminate these inefficient overworked idiot. But current technology can't beat the good hand-made animations so the bad situation continues.