Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli is a Japanese film company who create wondrous and magical fantasy animations, such as spirited away. Ghibli films are mainly created using a hand drawn technique, only rarely using CGI (Computer Generated Imagery). For this every single frame has to be drawn out by animators before putting it together to create the animation, there is a lot more to it than just this though. Each scene must be drawn out, frame by frame, it is then transferred onto carbon sheets before being burnt onto transparent cells. This is when color is added using water color paints. Backgrounds are created separately from characters, the cells are then placed onto the corresponding backgrounds and each frame is shot individually. It is then the job of the editor to sync up the actions with sounds, such as speaking, the timing must be precise as the images must match the dialogue/sounds accordingly. Everything is then put together creating the final outcome. Studio Ghibli films are made for entertainment with original stories. In the case of Spirited Away the story is very magical and entertaining, the feeling of the film is quite mysterious as a lot of the things going on can be confusing at first as well as wondrous and exciting. I plan on creating my own animation using a hand drawn technique, while I will make mine in a much more simple style, I really enjoy the movies Studeo Ghibli creates and love the art style of them, with beautiful scenery and interesting characters. I am also planning on having monsters in my animation, some of the inspiration for this comes from some of the creatures that appear in Studio Ghibli movies, such as the character No Face from Spirited Away.

This quote is an extract from an article I found describing the work that Studio Ghibli puts into creating a  animated movie.
"The majority of Studio Ghibli films are made using traditional animation techniques. So what does this mean? EVERY SINGLE FRAME is hand-drawn by animators, before being put together to give the illusion of movement and create the film. This is a very repetitive and time-consuming process but the studio’s co-founder Hayao Miyazaki believes that “hand drawing on paper is the fundamental of animation”."