Hayao Miyazaki's way to create stories

The Great Mouse Detective

Childhood favorite This was hands down one of my favorite animated films that I saw when I was a child. I remember going often to a video rental shop with my family and every time we went there and I got to choose the movie, I would choose The Great Mouse Detective. Over and over again. Talk about obsession. It must have been a very bad financial decision for my parents not to buy it for me. I forgot about it for years but as a teenager for some reason I suddenly remembered that it exists and how much I loved it and started to look for an opportunity to watch it again. (Is this how normal teenagers behave?) Around that time I was reading Detective Conan manga and really liked detective stories so that's probably why I felt a need to find it. Turned out that my friend had the movie so I was able to borrow it (why can't I ever own it??) and watch it again. I remember being very nervous, what if I don't like it anymore. Fortunately it was as good as I remembered and my obsessi...

Why I want to become an animator

Why I want to become an animator Well I did not want to be an animator when I was young. I didn't think I was able to draw well even when I was certainly drawing a lot. Drawing was only one way to express my ideas that I had for stories. Other outlet was writing and that must have been one of my first dreamjobs, to write books about the stories of my lively imagination. I loved reading comics and watching cartoons and me and my twin sister where able to do that a lot. Probably because that made the twins behave and sit quietly and focused for a while. I remember how we would act the happenings in the cartoons in our playtime. We would get a sticky tape roll and pretend that it was movie tape and we were filming, acting and later editing a movie. We would create backstories and a world for our toys and have very detailed story series for them. I remember that some kids had trouble keeping up with our plays, but some were instantly excited and into the ideas and usually those became...

2D animation Getting started with tools In the old days animations were drawn on special paper and then transferred onto clear acetate sheets called cels for painting. Then they were photographed frame by frame. Sounds like terrible amount of work, right? Well, hand drawn animators still create their animations frame by frame using very similar principles as in the beginning. So no laughing for poor animators of the old times. No need to give up either. Some things have changed! Cels are not in use anymore after scanning drawings into the computer for digital coloring became possible, and now many hand drawn animators skip paper altogether and draw directly into the computer using drawing tablets. So yes the process is getting faster all the time. Now that the idea is to become an animator and we have dropped paper and cells from the tools and have a fast glance on my desk where I have my XP-Pen ready for drawing digitally, it's time to choose (2D) animati...

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