Artist Research - Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki is a retired animator from Japan, he has created feature length films such as Castle in the Sky, Ponyo and Princess Mononoke. 

He takes a leading role when creating his films, in his early films he would personally review every individual frame but due to health issues he now delegates work to other animators.

Miyazaki uses traditional animation in majority in his films, he introduced computer graphics first into Princess Mononoke. In a interview he explained his use of computer graphics "it's very important to me to retain the right ratio between working by hand and computer. I have learnt that balance now, how to use both and still be able to call my films 2D"