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"No living animator is as widely heroized by his peers as Hayao Miyazaki is.
When you ask animation directors about the effect his work has had on them, the
same words recur over and over again: inspiration, master, North Star, blows my
mind. Tomm Moore, director of
Wolfwalkers, met Miyazaki at the Oscars’ 2014
Governors Awards and confesses to spontaneously devising a ruse to get near the
director: “I told his translator that I borrowed a cigarette just to hang out
with him a bit,” Moore, who doesn’t smoke, says. “He was amused by that. He
just passed me the ashtray with a cheeky grin.”
Nearly a decade after that night when Miyazaki, now 83, earned the Academy’s
Honorary Award for a lifetime of animation achievements, the co-founder of
Studio Ghibli is still hard at work. The box-office topping American release of
The Boy and the Heron was the latest chapter of a 60-year-long career in
animation. In that time, animators around the world have obsessively studied
the work of an artist whose 12 feature films and numerous TV series aren’t just
heartfelt stories but technical marvels. He’s also a useful model in part
because of how personal his films are. “Most animation is made much more by
committee,” explains Moore, who co-founded his own independent animation studio
Cartoon Saloon. Miyazaki, he says, is an exception: “He has a team working with
him, but they are following him as an auteur. He makes these elaborate
beautiful spectacles, but they still seem like they all just came from the tip
of his pencil.”
Just as Miyazaki’s films were influenced by artists as diverse as fantasy
author Ursula K. Le Guin, French animator Paul Grimault, Japanese director
Taiji Yabushita, and his late Studio Ghibli colleague and mentor Isao Takahata,
generations of animators around the world have taken lessons from him and
applied it to their works. Vulture spoke with 15 animators — directors,
storyboard artists, character designers, and more — who laid out what they’ve
learned."
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