| 1. | (16 posts) | "Sen to Chihiro" Downloadable Trailer |
| 2. | (7 posts) | The $1,500 Cel |
| 3. | (13 posts) | Help with Miyazaki Project |
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Two week delay and this is all we get?!
Tracy Timmonsgray found the prototype "Sen" trailer (unofficially) online, "I found this one site that has a lot of previews/openings for recent/upcoming anime and there's an MPEG of the short preview for Sen to Chihiro."
After some format complaints (the trailer came as an ASF), Team Ghiblink whipped up a page linked to the original and an MPEG-1 version. Tom Wilkes reported, "We have placed a new page on Nausicaa.net with a translation of the preview (including elements of Jason's work)." Jason Martens provided a translation of the trailer earlier in the thread.
Bruce Jones commented, "Looks good! Chihiro's facial design looks very similar to that of Matsuko from Yamadas(without the curly hair). It's good to finally see some real animation rather than concept art (thanks Tracey)."
Martin Kaegi added, "The trailer looks (and sounds) great. I've got sweaty palms already..."
Sophia Rogers wondered, "Does anyone know how long Chihiro is going to be? (My favorite Miyazaki movies are all longer than 100 minutes, for some reason. I'm glad there's a feature animator out there who takes his time in letting the stories play out. A lot of animated movies strike me as being too short.)"
Tom squashed any fears, According to the NHK documentary _Breathing life into drawings_, the new movie is planned for 1 hour 50 minutes length. At 110+ minutes (doubtless it will be longer than originally planned), the new movie should fit the bill. ^_^
Got $1,500 laying around? Andrew Tri pointed out one use, "I found something today that amazed me.
An original production cel from Princess Mononoke.
I had originally thought that these didn't exist -as Miyazaki-san is doing everything digitally now. But it seems real, you can see the
original drawing there.
But alas.. it's $1500
Ryoko Toyama corrected and added a point, "Mononoke was the last "traditionally-made cel animation" at Ghibli. Yamadas was the first one that was made fully digitally. The reason why you don't see too many Mononoke cel is that since "Whisper of the Heart," Ghibli stopped selling their production cel. They were concerned about high price of cel and problems about the cel market. Hence, Mononoke and Whisper cels you see (except reproduction) are not really supposed to be in the market. (It's inevitable that there are some leaks.)"
Andrew commented, "It seems to me that the solution is making the problem worse. A nice "Nausicaa" cel goes for about $400 (other cels not of Nausicaa herself go for around $50-$100). . . Yet because of the rarity of Mononoke cels this one is going for $1500! If Studio Ghibli had sold even 10,000 of the 144,000 cels used for Mononoke these cels would be affordable to little ol me (even $500 for a reproduction cel from Usagi's house is too much for what you get)"
Wendy Goldberg asked "Could you say a little more regarding this concern about the prices and the market?. . . I know of some other examples of studios not releasing their cels to the public and I've always wondered why."
I compiled a list of old posts that (I think) answered her question.
Sean Gibbons wrote, "I just had my first day of "Introduction to Film". . . my teacher gave us a quarter project to do on our favorite director, so you can all take a guess at who I decided to choose. . . I'm in search of good information to help me out a bit, if any of you know any interesting little facts or some good sites on the internet to get my information from, it would be much appreciated."
Nausicaa.Net received several mentions (natch), as well as Helen McCarthy's book (Hayao Miyazaki - Master of Japanese Animation). Sean replied that he already had the book plus the Nausicaa manga and various films.
Sharon Westfall added, "I liked the stuff Marc Hairston put in his class in Texas. About the timeline, the comic strip about the delays, and then making On Your Mark to finally free Nausicaa. I thought that was really cool..."
David Mankins recommended:
D. P. Martinez, The worlds of Japanese popular culture: gender, shifting boundaries, and global cultures. 1998.
has an essay by Susan Napier (who is also occasionally on this list) called something like, _Vampires, magic girls, and flying women_,
which has a multi-page discussion of Nausicaa.
Andrew Osmond added, "there's a wealth of translated articles by and about Miyazaki at http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/"
Chris Kuan spotted a "Princess Mononoke" review in the Sydney Morning Herald. Andrew Osmond listed a whole bunch of Studio Ghibli-related articles at scifi.com. Synopsis' for most of the films are now active. Steve Chiavo found some Totoro and Neko-bus icons for Mac users, they apparently require OS 9.1. Think you're a hardcore Studio Ghibli fan? Thank again. Marc Hairston posted details of Susan Napier's anime class at Harvard. Rodney Smith saw Giannalberto Bendazzi in Seattle and posted his thoughts.
Light couple of weeks, but I'll keep archiving regardless. ^_^ See you next week.