Follow Me: Hayao Miyazaki: "Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki refuses to use AI deep learning and CGI for new feature"

     According to the IBT(International Business Times), Hayao Miyazaki coming out of the retirement about 3 years after the announcement is working on a new film and for this, he learned about Artificial Intelligence more, but he finally refused it. Hayao Miyazaki finished his resting time and started new animation film, "Boro the Caterpillar", and to describe the caterpillar as natural and real he decided to turn his working style form hand drawing into CGI(Computer Generated Imagery). In addition, in order to acquire it more efficiently, he met Nobuo Kawakami, the chairperson of the  Dwango Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and encountered the system realizing the character's imaginary movements and the sample of the programmed zombies. However, the sample offended Miyazaki recalling the neighboring physically challenged people and he decided to come back to his original working style: hand drawn illustration. To sum up, even though Hayao Miyazaki at first decided to use CGI or AI program to animate his new character, after he visited AI laboratory and encountered them deeply, he has given up and returned.

     The news that Hayao Miyazaki is coming back is so impressing to me since he is one of my favorite movie diresctors because of three reasons: beautiful illustrations, implied meaning of scenes, and background music. Miyazaki tends to create each scene of films by drawing them himself and for that reason, his movies convey warm and lyrical emotion. Moreover he always suggests certain social problem and desired world view through his film, as in "Spirited away" he dealt with the problem of prostitution, materialism, and environmental pollution through features and behaviors of characters.
Finally, the back ground music of his films amplify atmosphere and mix with scenes so well that the music tends to represent the movie itself. By hearing the news saying that Hayao Miyazaki breaks out of the retirement, I have been looking forward to watch his movie entailing elaborate scenes of the film, touching messages toward us, and supportive music.


Russon, Mary-Ann. "Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Refuses to Use AI Deep Learning and CGI for New Feature." International Business Times UK. N.p., 12 Apr. 2017. Web. 25 May 2017.


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