Rough animation by Shun Onoda from You Can Be Who You Are by D’ART Shtajio. You can watch D’ART Shtajio’s scene and find an excerpt of our conversation below. We spoke with Arthell live on Twitch about his work and the scene his team contributed to Harmony 20’s demo video. Toon Boom had previously teamed up with D’ART Shtajio to produce an original short, Shojo no Piero / The Doll, as well as an anime run cycle for Harmony 17, so we reached out to D’ART Shtajio’s founder Arthell Isom and his team to produce a scene for Harmony 20.
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In addition to service work for acclaimed series and films, this year their team contributed original shorts to Sturgill Simpson’s Sound & Fury anthology and created the music video for The Weeknd’s single Snowchild. These teams were drawn from our international community of artists, who were given total creative freedom to construct their scenes.īased out of Tokyo, D’ART Shtajio is 2D animation studio which specializes in the production of anime. "He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.To celebrate the release of Toon Boom Harmony 20, we approached artists and teams around the world to contribute to a demo video highlighting the features and capabilities of our new animation software. P I’m glad you enjoyed the post, Dan, but I’ve got to get you watching Scooby Doo! Surely we can all justify a second childhood at some point in our lives, can’t we? Traditional methods are more tedious and time-consuming, and the margin for error is much smaller.Īnyway, rant over. But if I need to redo/redesign something on a canvas? You could be talking HOURS of extra painting and 10,000+ more brush strokes instead of a single click that takes less than a second. If I make a mistake on the computer - be it a technical error in my rendering or simply a poor choice of colour that doesn’t work in the composition - I can just undo it with one click of my mouse. Good LORD, do I wish that my paintings came with an undo button. But you know what an artist using a computer has that a traditional artist doesn’t? An UNDO button. Yes, there are overlapping skills like a knowledge of colour and shape, etc. While I won’t take anything away from today’s graphic artists (using a computer instead of traditional tools), I still maintain that it’s NOT the same thing, and that it’s mostly a different skill set.
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I know some people argue that even the art done on computer is still “hand-drawn” (meaning, there’s an actual person inputting the information using his hands), and therefore the classic “paint and a brush” technique is no more impressive. It honestly IS lower quality animation today. Maybe you knew about all that already, but if not, I hope you’ll check them out. Lovely stuff.ĭo a Google image search for Studio Ghibli backgrounds and you’ll see a bit of what I mean. They range in subject from ghost stories to chronicling the conflict between industrialization and nature to compassionate character studies in both fantastic and mundane situations.
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These are Japanese films, but aren’t anime. The most prolific Ghibli director is Hayao Miyazaki, and he’s a visual and storytelling genius. Anyway, Ghibli has done the vast majority of their films by hand, both backgrounds and animation (the films that do use CGI are using it only for particular shots and effects). I love all that I’ve seen, but several standouts are Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle, Castle In The Sky, The Wind Rises, Whisper Of The Heart…perhaps I think there are too many standouts. There’s nothing quite like them when it comes to wildly artistic backgrounds. On this topic, you really should do yourself a favor and watch a bunch of Studio Ghibli films. I couldn’t agree more, particularly about the Scooby Doo backgrounds.