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It was also used in limited form in Princess Mononoke.

Huh, and all this time I thought Spirited Away was the first one—which would also fit with the massive difference in style from the earlier films.

It means, though, that their flirtations with CGI go back full two decades to right after the first Toy Story.

It's funny you should mention Toy Story. Pixar's John Lasseter is well known to be a friend of Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli even released a DVD of the home movie visit to America titled Thank You, Mr. Lasseter.

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.

toy story 3 had totoro in it as a toy character.

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