The art of Studio Ghibli
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Studio Ghibli is an animation style that is lost in time, using hand-drawn art, light color palettes, and natural landscapes. It has impacted the entire art community by showing that hand-drawn animation brings raw emotion through its detailed backgrounds and expressive scenes. This influence has inspired other animators to create similar works, such as Wolf Children and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time by Mamoru Hosoda. Ghibli’s art is important because it is a lost art style in a world of electronic animation.
Other than visuals, Studio Ghibli’s style has also changed how women are represented in anime. Their stories avoid stereotypes, no sexualization, no demeaning jokes, just plots about personal growth and growing up. This makes Ghibli films a more welcoming community for women. The studio also supports female artists behind the scenes, hiring artists like Kazuko Nakamura and Atsuko Tanaka, helping create better representation both on and off screen.
The Secret world of Arrietty is about a tiny person who lives in someone's home with her family and borrows household items while trying to stay unseen.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Is about a post-apocalyptic world where humanity is struggling to survive, and there's a power struggle between them, but the princess is trying to understand and make peace with the ways of the new world, while not recreating the bad history of the past.
Spirited away is about a 10-year-old girl who finds an amusement park and Chihiro goes into a world of gods, spirits, witches, and she goes on a journey of learning to become herself again and return to the human world.
These films both have very different meanings. The Secret World of Arrietty focuses on being smaller than yourself feeling unnoticed and trying to survive with a fear of the unknown and the trust that comes with it. While Spirited Away is a coming-of-age story where she learns about being an adult and seeing greed in real time and she works very hard to grow. This matters because the art styles are completely different having very different tones and the art style makes these tones feel very real with The Secret World of Arrietty's tone being very colorful and whimsical while Spirited aways tone is dark full of shadows and creatures while still beautiful it feels emotionally heavier. With these two drastic changes in art style, it really helps reach a wide audience for everyone because there's something you will like.
Studio Ghibli while their art style may take many hours longer to create, they really are the heart and soul of the animation industry inspiring people to make stories that are only the story no stereotypes just pure plot. Hopefully they will keep showing the animation industry that newer is not always better and sticking with the old ways can add depth and creativity even though it's at the cost of speed.
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