The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki (animationobsessive.substack.com)

Thank you for sharing the image boards! They're very rare and impressed me. How have you found them?

> Future Boy Conan

That's what that giant flying wing warship is from

I highly recommend the NHK documentary "10 years with Hayao Miyazaki" that shows how he works (and also his sometimes difficult character).

There’s so much magic, for lack of a better word, in those illustrations. Miyazaki is really one of a kind.

Seeing Miyazaki’s Pippi makes me so sad that we never got to see that movie. I’ve been reading a ton of Astrid Lindgren with my kid lately, and for many of them I see them in my mind’s eye as Myazaki films, and especially Pippi. Myazaki and Lindgren have a lot in common, I think, in how they tell stories from children’s perspectives. What we’ve got for Pippi movie adaptations instead are very poor things.

He used to make a lot of short illustrated stories too. My favourite is 'Imouto He' because I love the plane concept - there is really nothing like it and I wonder if an aerospace engineer could look at it and spot any reasons it couldn't exist.

https://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2008/03/imoto-he-for-my-siste...

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What the hell, many of these look like complete frames in themselves! Crazy

And nowadays people believe that just setting a Ghibli filter on an AI image generator makes them Miyazaki's equal, because talent isn't real.