Hayao Miyazaki's Little Nemo

[hermione]

I didn't see anything in the archives, so I assume no one else saw this:

http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/category/cartoons/

Pretty amazing stuff for 1984.

[keitaro2021]

Did hayao Miyazaki really work on that film? I remember it and the scenes do seem to have his touch but i can't find his name on the credits easily.

[mrsparklenoodle]

As I understand it, Hayao Miyazaki did not work on the film, Yoshifumi Kondo did.

There are two other pilots, one directed by Osamu Dezaki and with animation direction (or key animation, I can't remember which) by Akio Sugino, can't remember much about the other one.

[marchairston]

As I understand it, Hayao Miyazaki did not work on the film, Yoshifumi Kondo did.


Wrong and right. Miyazaki, Takahata, and Kondo all worked on it in preproduction,
but Miyazaki and Takahata quit after that. Kondo stayed on and did the test film
that is linked above, that's why it looks Miyazaki-like. On a side note, it was while
Miyazaki was working on this in LA back in 1980 or 81 that he met a young Disney
animator named John Lasseter and they became friends. See

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nonmiyazaki/#nemo

for the information from Nausicaa.net.

[JTurner]

As I understand it, Hayao Miyazaki did not work on the film, Yoshifumi Kondo did.


Wrong and right. Miyazaki, Takahata, and Kondo all worked on it in preproduction,
but Miyazaki and Takahata quit after that. Kondo stayed on and did the test film
that is linked above, that's why it looks Miyazaki-like. On a side note, it was while
Miyazaki was working on this in LA back in 1980 or 81 that he met a young Disney
animator named John Lasseter and they became friends. See

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nonmiyazaki/#nemo

for the information from Nausicaa.net.

Wow, I didn't realize that the production of this film was so lengthy. I liked it, although I do admit that there were a lot of places where it was attempting to be imitative of Disney. Miyazaki and Takahata weren't the only members of the film who quit either. Lots of people who worked on Little Nemo were repeatedly hired and fired; hence most of the staff names in the credits are "ghost members." It would be interesting, I think, to see what this movie would be like if Miyazaki directed it. He probably would have made it less saccharine and provided more depth to the plot.

That thing about Miyazaki and Lasseter meeting in 1981 is interesting; I had never known it before. No wonder the trust between the pair when it comes to bringing his movies stateside is strong.

-Jon T.

[Jim Leverton]

As I understand it, Hayao Miyazaki did not work on the film, Yoshifumi Kondo did.


Wrong and right. Miyazaki, Takahata, and Kondo all worked on it in preproduction,
but Miyazaki and Takahata quit after that. Kondo stayed on and did the test film
that is linked above, that's why it looks Miyazaki-like. On a side note, it was while
Miyazaki was working on this in LA back in 1980 or 81 that he met a young Disney
animator named John Lasseter and they became friends. See

http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nonmiyazaki/#nemo

for the information from Nausicaa.net.


John Lasseter is the guy that introduces Miyazaki's work at the beginning of Miyazaki's movies. He's introduced Nausicca, Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away, and several others. I didn't know that they had met back in '80. I'm going to have re-do some posts as a result of that little tid-bit of info.