tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post8535672037246471809..comments2024-03-19T02:27:08.584-05:00Comments on Ghibli Blog: Studio Ghibli, Animation and the Movies: Miyazaki Comics - Tree (1989)Daniel Thomas MacInneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01406180871529775448noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-49852590408022682942011-02-03T19:46:25.782-06:002011-02-03T19:46:25.782-06:00You might be interested in Karl Sims' point of...You might be interested in Karl Sims' point of view. To put in in perspective, in the U.S., the technological culture and the hippie culture are not entirely separate. There's a certain artistic mentality that I think eventually became swallowed over as computer animated special effects became popular.<br /><br />This one, Virtual Creatures, shows a process of virtual evolution by artificial selection.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgG_VSP7f8&feature=related<br /><br />This film, Panspermia, shows life evolving on a planet struck by a pod.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgeuRukfZLE&feature=related<br /><br />Liquid Selves isn't about nature in the earlier sense, but is about humanity being eroded in a virtual environment.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG1GxxnWoMM&feature=related<br /><br />I brought those up to show a different point of view.GWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060736362111492822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-37998465004255969222011-02-01T09:11:17.000-06:002011-02-01T09:11:17.000-06:00A lovely comic and an interesting observation abou...A lovely comic and an interesting observation about the dearth of genuine nature themes in American animation. I noticed on TV Tropes that under the <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GhibliHills" rel="nofollow">Ghibli Hills</a>, someone noted that Studio Ghibli and its creators actually live in areas close to or surrounded by exactly those sorts of forests. I can personally attest that, in Japan, you are not very far outside of Tokyo at all before you're smack into the hill country. The plains and the valley bottoms are all developed, but you get onto the mountain and it's just you and nature.<br /><br />And considering that it's not much different at my home up here in Canada, I definitely agree with you. I get something spiritually out of Ghibli's films that I don't get out of American animation today (in addition to artistically and narratively).Cory Grosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12141983255020503557noreply@blogger.com