{"id":237563,"date":"2021-04-28T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/luca-inspiration-came-from-2d-aardman-studio-ghibli-interview-film\/"},"modified":"2021-04-28T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:00:56","slug":"luca-inspiration-came-from-2d-aardman-studio-ghibli-interview-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/luca-inspiration-came-from-2d-aardman-studio-ghibli-interview-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Luca Inspiration Came From 2D, Aardman, Studio Ghibli [Interview] \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Luca Inspiration Came From 2D, Aardman, Studio Ghibli [Interview] \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Luca<\/em><\/strong> is probably the closest Pixar will get to making a Studio Ghibli film. That\u2019s probably not a huge swing to make \u2014 the creatives at Pixar have long been fans of the works of Hayao Miyazaki and the anime<\/a> studio that he co-founded, frequently citing films like\u00a0Kiki\u2019s Delivery Service<\/em> and\u00a0Spirited Away<\/em> as influences for their own award-winning films. But there\u2019s a certain\u00a0feeling<\/em> with Ghibli films that is hard to express. A nostalgia, a serenity of spirit, a bittersweet simplicity that has been consistent with most of the films from the renowned Japanese animation studio. And\u00a0Luca<\/em> gets pretty close to achieving that (at least in the 30 minutes of footage that this reporter watched for an early press presentation dedicated to the Pixar film).<\/p>\n

And that was intentional, according to\u00a0Luca<\/em> animation supervisor\u00a0Mike Venturini<\/strong>. The director of\u00a0Luca<\/em>,\u00a0Enrico Casarosa<\/strong>, grew up watching some of the earliest TV works of Miyazaki and his frequent collaborator Isao Takahata, like\u00a0Future Boy Conan<\/em> and\u00a03000 Leagues in Search of Mother<\/em>, and that love for all things Miyazaki bled into\u00a0Luca<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u00a0really comes from Enrico\u2019s love for those films and how it\u2019s influenced him as a filmmaker,\u201d Venturini told \/Film in an interview over Zoom. \u201cWe use the word lyrical to describe his storytelling. It\u2019s very rhythmic and get can get quiet at times.\u201d
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\nWhich was why Venturini and the animators turned to the works of Miyazaki as inspiration for\u00a0Luca<\/em> \u2014 as well as the films of Aardman Animation and Laika, which specialize in stop-motion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe watched all of that stuff for that kind of handcrafted feel of it,\u201d Venturini said, which led to\u00a0Luca<\/em> looking unlike any other recent Pixar film \u2014 simpler, expressive, more like 2D animation. That may sound like a step backwards for a studio that specializes in making increasingly photorealistic 3D animation, but it makes for an utterly fresh Pixar movie, Venturini said.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Luca]<\/em> just ended up being a wonderful collage of all these influences,\u201d he said. \u201cWhich is why when you watch this film, you\u2019re like, \u2018It\u2019s different than what a Pixar film does, but I can\u2019t put my finger on where else I\u2019ve seen this. It feels comfortable and familiar but I can\u2019t say I\u2019ve seen exactly this.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Read our full interview with Venturini on the melting pot of influences on\u00a0Luca<\/em> below.
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During the presentation, you said that your team was greatly inspired by 2D animation. Can you speak specifically about which aspects of 2D or which films inspired Luca<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, we went outside of 2D as well, we looked at the stop motion. We looked at some of the Aardman stuff we looked at the studio that made My Life as a Zucchini<\/em>, a European stop-motion film. We watched all of that stuff for that kind of handcrafted feel of it. Aardman, we looked at for mouth shapes and how simple some of their dialogue is. We didn\u2019t want to be too complex in our dialogue, because we wanted it to be more graphic. But mostly we were looking at anything from the [Hayao] Miyazaki library starting with his very first series<\/a> he did, Future Boy Conan<\/em>, which was, you know, a television show that Enrico [Casarosa] grew up with, that really imprinted on him. And so we watched episodes of that. What we started to notice was, certainly in anime in general<\/a> and in Miyazaki\u2019s work, it\u2019s very expressive in a different kind of way. And one of the ways was, that they do these really<\/em> big eyes and mouth-shapes and it\u2019s like an expression of the character\u2019s emotion or energy. It\u2019s not meant to be realistic in any way.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s through the full body too.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah! And then they\u2019ll get really small, and delicate, and quiet. So we wanted that range in our characters and we knew that because we wanted these kids to be playful and seeing and doing things for the first time, we really wanted to feel that emotion and just be super expressive. So from a design aesthetic, those were some of the things that we pulled. The other thing was that in Miyazaki\u2019s films, it\u2019s very efficient. They only animate \u201ccomplex\u201d when they need to for the story, they don\u2019t do it if it\u2019s not important to the story. They\u2019ll find really wonderfully drawn poses and spend a lot of time in the pose. We noticed lots of scenes of characters just sitting there and it\u2019s just the wind in their hair, and very little animation, almost none in some situations. And we wanted to try that. We always, at Pixar, we try to make things feel organic, and there\u2019s a lot of movement and realism in it. We wanted to try to pull that out, because we felt like in the Miyazaki library there\u2019s a lot of mood that you get from that, and we wanted to kind of try some of that. So those were some of the inspirations that we pulled from.
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