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Since Studio Ghibli is trending, worth noting the mind-boggling effort Hayao Miyazaki and his team put into a film. Each has 60k-70k frames, all hand-drawn and painted with water color. This 4-second clip (“The Wind Rises”) took one animator 15 months to do. In the documentary “10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki”, the legendary Japanese filmmaker talks to one of his animators (Eiji Yamamori) after they complete the crowd scene. The exchange is gold:

Miyazaki: “Good job.”

Yamamori: “It’s so short, though”

Miyazaki: “But it was worth it.” The animator gets a second of joy (he’s pumped) but on to the next. *** Link to doc: www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/sh

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Trung Phan

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On a related note, Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” is a great lesson on how technology changes art. He created the masterpiece in 1889. But the painting style was born from the art world's response to invention of the camera decades earlier. I explain it here:

The Camera, Van Gogh and "The Starry Night"

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Trung Phan

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Hayao Miyazaki after seeing the 86th meme template turned into a Studio Ghibli image

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Fernando Alday

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The animation process of Akira (1988). This makes me appreciate this masterpiece even more

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Glorious!

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Tyler Lorenzo

@CulbertsonTyler

Have you seen this one by Miyazaki?

This was Miyazaki’s response to seeing an ai demo years ago: “I am utterly disgusted”, “I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”

Daniel Sempere Pico

@BTCGandalf

When you spend 1 year and 3 months to illustrate a 4-second crowd scene, and then OpenAI release GPT-4o image generation:

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@D0804292010441

15 months to do a 4 second clip... which will be done with AI in a couple of hours at most. Thats how fast innovation is going. We are going into a world where you turn on the TV and choose to watch a new Anime Series everyday if you want...

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Steven Doar

@steveotenors

AI is amazing, but Miyazaki created this style and was also great at… writing a story that speaks to people, stays with them, makes them fall in love with their lives and humanity, revising it, changing their minds, getting the performances right, the music right, the sound

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everythingism

@_everythingism

They're great films but I feel like all these AI bros now losing their minds over "Studio Ghibli style" would have never watched them when they first came out. It's like seeing your favorite band go mainstream and the fanbase is now made up of the most annoying people possible.

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Torsten Hoffmann Filmmaker @TorstenHQ

@TorstenHQ

Found it here

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Ep 1. 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki

documentary chronicling the creative process of the legendary Japanese filmmaker#Hayao #Miyazaki #SpiritedAway #ponyo

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AndaSeat

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Fun fact: Every dragon scale on our FlyQuest Edition tells a story! Our designers integrated dragon elements into:

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Side wing patterns (dragon wings, anyone?)

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Ned

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openai just kills this guy business.

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SEOforDeplorables

@DeplorableSEO

As AI-generated art becomes ubiquitous, we will be surrounded by art that is technically perfect but devoid of soul. It's not the technique that makes Miyazaki's films mind-blowingly great, it's the humanity behind each one. I'm not just talking about the story but the

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Calvin || THE VOID RUNNER

@calvinle

It may have taken a team a year+ to create a shot that lasted 4 seconds, but it remains external throughout time

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Onno Hoitingh

@OnnoHoitingh

They are legends for their creativity, a perfect and vicious example of AI terminating a line of work, though economically as source of income, and not as a human passion. Like he says, it will still be worth it. But the machines are coming no doubt

The Monkey in the Machine

@MonkeyInMachine

Miyazaki-sama would be profoundly sad right now looking at the X timeline.

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Nayak Satya

@NayakSatya_SG

we are suddenly living in a new world in fraction of few hours what a generation in Tech space

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Eduardo Borges

@duborges

impossible not to love the japanese people

forever a legend

It’s actually not the time to note this

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Gaas-cmb.nft

@GaasCmb

I might have to check it out

SWA Sabers

@SWA_Sabers

This Alternate 'Revenge Of The Sith' Opening Scene is 10X BETTER General Grievous Kidnaps the Chancellor (Original SWAnimation)

One can’t put a price to what is worth

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TheHeretic

@EthosHeretica

Miyazaki saying that probably made that guys whole year. Guy was a slavedriver and I imagine faint with real praise.

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Dusty Lee Cook

@DustyLeeCook

Oh wow. 4 seconds for that??? Incredible

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Charles R Cherry

@CharlesRCherry

The Japanese are beyond amazing.

Audio engineers used to take razor blades to physical tape and splice cuts together. Now you just press a button and AI removes all the dead space.

Dillon Freed

@dillonfreed

AI is potentially the death of human genius

Craftsmanship!

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chondis

@chondiis

4 second scene ... 15 months ... x.com/TrungTPhan/sta…

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samso_n

@samson_auroux

This trend is a huge insult to Miyazaki and all his work and all the animators who worked with him !!

0berly

@iam0berly0

Wind rises is my favorite ghibli work. The earthquake scene while on the train is insane. And the transition scenes of flight- just beautiful.

Lyndon Tucker

@LyndonTucker

how does this make money

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@ennyirl

The Wind Rises made me cry

@ironyofdarkness

this is greatness, profound greatness.

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Kek

@smellslikesalm

Time machine within the matrix is more plausible

Pen.MJ

@PenMJ89

We’re going to the point that a machine takes out our creativity and makes us misunderstand that we are genius

Jabr0nie

@0xJabr0nie

Totally agree! Miyazaki's attention to detail is next level. It's what makes their films so magical.

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Templedweller : Visionary Ornamentalism/Surrealism

@TempledwellerAI

OpenAI are assholes for using living artists, IP etc (especially one who has spoken out against it) as their primary examples instead of fostering creative modeling, fine tuning and artists using the tools for expanding their own language as the examples

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