Word: storyboarding
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Fish out of WaterIn his native Japan, Miyazaki, 68, is perhaps the most respected director working in any film form. Still making movies in 2-D, hand-drawn animation, he creates a frame-by-frame storyboard - 180,000 drawings for Ponyo - that his crew of animators brings to life with minimal help from computers. He is also one of his country's biggest star names. His 1997 Princess Mononoke was Japan's all-time box-office winner until it was overtaken by Titanic; then in 2001, Spirited Away topped Titanic, and it remains the country's top grosser. Ponyo took...
...Americans have introduced an artistic controversy: Is a doe-eyed Nancy Drew, who debuted last April, really manga? Japanese manga resembles a cinematic storyboard with less happening in each panel than in U.S. comics. There are more motion lines; simple, expressive facial lines; and stories that depict "ordinary people in extraordinary situations dealing with the weirdest things you've ever thought of," according to Tokyopop...
...Right now we?re working on a Pre-Vis system, which is pre-visualization in movies. It?s very quick, almost like a video game: you can make movies very quickly and shoot them and them put them together. It?s just basically a moving storyboard, so it?s very easy for you to figure out how your movie is going to get made, and what it?s going to look like when it gets done. And it doesn?t cost hardly anything. Any big movie all has pre-vis, which are computerized versions of the movie...
Faherty, who works the Boston Globe’s presses at night “to pay the bills,” says that his performances have an important pre-planned aspect: “Just as an animator will work from a storyboard, I’ve actually written up storyboards for this Nine Inch Nails track...
That is, it is filled with blood and boobies and shot using the gorgeous black-and-white line drawings of the comic book as a storyboard. The sex is typical Hollywood fare, but the violence, heavy on dismemberment—especially of male genitalia—and decapitation, brings the film dangerously close to NC-17 territory...