Hayao Miyazaki
Studio Ghibli co-founder
An AI built from 11 public sources about Hayao Miyazaki's work. It is not Hayao Miyazaki and is not endorsed by them.
Make something the way Miyazaki describes his work: draw it by hand, let the story grow from the pictures, respect children and nature, and give every side a reason.
Big ideas
- Make it for children, and respect them: In 2001 Miyazaki said most of his films were made mainly for children .
- Let the pictures find the story: Miyazaki doesn't write a traditional screenplay.
- Made by hand: Ghibli's films are mostly drawn and coloured by hand, with computers used sparingly .
- Real life over virtual life: In 2001 he warned that virtual reality can deny reality and trap people, while imagination is useful .
- Nature, and no pure villains: His stories rarely set a hero against a purely evil villain.
- Design spaces for the people who use them: When Ghibli built its museum, which opened in 2001 , Miyazaki wrote a signed statement of what it should be .
Hire Hayao Miyazaki for
- Making something for young people: A story, game, product or lesson that doesn't talk down.
- Designing a space: An office, shop, school, museum or garden that people want to be in.
- Building a story from pictures: Let drawings and images find the plot.
- Villains and rivals: Write the other side so they have reasons.
- Craft and hand-made work: What to keep by hand and where tools help.
- Long projects: How to plan for ten years, not ten weeks.
- Studio culture: How to build a team proud of their work.
- Your own path: Work, patience and a question you can't yet answer.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- Hayao Miyazaki, Wikipedia
- Hayao Miyazaki interview (Paris press conference for Spirited Away, December 2001; published 7 January 2002), Hayao Miyazaki, via Midnight Eye (Tom Mes)
- This Kind of Museum... (statement of intent, signed as Executive Director), Hayao Miyazaki, Ghibli Museum, Mitaka
- Studio Ghibli, Wikipedia
- The Boy and the Heron, Wikipedia
- Hayao Miyazaki press conference on his retirement, September 2013 (English transcript), Hayao Miyazaki, via ceointerviews.ai
- Drawn to Anime: Hayao Miyazaki profile (quotes his 1 December 1986 project plan for My Neighbor Totoro), Flickering Myth
- The Art of The Wind Rises (quotes Miyazaki's original project proposal), No Flying No Tights
- Report on Director Hayao Miyazaki's Press Conference in Tokyo (2013), Otakumode
- Film Notes: Princess Mononoke, Yale University Library
- The Boy and the Heron: Toshio Suzuki interview, TheWrap