Hybridity Assignment

 Hayao Miyazaki

Background: 

Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and manga artist. Many people know him though as the director of Studio Ghibli, one of the most famous on pronoun anime studios of all time. Throughout his pieces, you can see him using basic hand-drawn art, digital art, cgi, and music. So, let us get into some of his pieces.

Howl's Moving Castle:

Howl's Moving Castle is one of Studio Ghibli's and Miyazaki's greatest works to date. Although it looks mostly hand drawn, it actually consists of almost entirely CGI animation. Although many people argue the piece is not CGI, unlike Pixar, rather than creating everything entirely in the computer, Hayao had hand drawn figures and background which were then scanned digitally and worked on from there. Lastly Miyazaki uses a great ordeal of music throughout, including the incredibly famous Howl's Moving Castle Theme which is an incredible founded on piano which later builds up into an entire band. I have yet to watch this film and I am quite excited for when I get the chance.

Princess Mononoke:

Princess Mononoke is a story about a boy, Ashitaka, trying to find a cure for a disease he got from the Boar God during an attack on his village. The story follows him going across the world trying to find the dear God which he believes can give him the cure to his sickness. On his way he meets Princess Mononoke, a human companion to the Wolf God. The central theme throughout this story is how we, the humans, are killing off the Gods of our land(In reality this could represent how we a re killing our earth due to many different issues). Besides the plot, this piece, unlike Howls Moving Castle, is mostly hand drawn and has little CGI. This piece again contains music, giving it another form of art that impacts the pieces hybridity. I have seen this movie before and in my opinion it is one of the best older animated films I have seen. 

Ponyo:

As a kid my mother was a big fan of Ponyo so I watched it quite a bit. It is about a Goldfish princess Ponyo encounters a human boy named Sosuke during a forbidden expedition to see the surface world. Ponyo longs to be human, and as she becomes closer to Sosuke, she becomes more human like. When Ponyo's father brings her back to their ocean kingdom, she is so determined to live on the surface that she breaks free, spilling a collection of magical elixirs that endanger Sosuke's village. This piece unlike the others is entirely hand drawn, but still includes a vast amount of music still making it a piece of hybrid art.

Discussion questions.

1. I learned that hybridity is a form of art that combines a variety of different genres of art, even including music.

2. Like Miyazaki, different pieces might call for different procedures, but he usually it artists trying to do something a little different.

3. I might be able to use hybridity in my artwork by possible modeling my character and then creating that character with possible random or obscure objects to create an unexpected feel.

4. Although I may not be able to do it in my own work, the idea of being able to use music to express emotion in art is something that interested me quite a bit.