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My Neighbors the Yamadas

Tue Mar 24, 2009, 7:45 PM

I have a question; does anyone know what program was used to make this movie?

I know it was all done digitally, but I'm wondering what specific softwares they used.

EDIT:

I figured it out! Thanks very much to

for directing me to the Toonz website/program [link]

It actually says specifically on the site that Ghibli used it in My Neighbors the Yamadas, hurray.

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*Teala-TeJir Mar 24, 2009, 8:41:43 PM

I am thinking single frame conventional art on celluloid. That is my best guess. Each frame was hand drawn and then colored. I know it looks like it was done in water colors but that can be easily duplicated.

~ashwara Mar 24, 2009, 9:03:33 PM

No, I know that the entire film was done digitally, because they couldn't get that look with traditional celluloid. I just can't find the specific program. Thanks for the guess though!

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*Raindropmemory Mar 24, 2009, 11:07:43 PM

I think they use Toonz[link]

This page on their website mention about Ghibli's work [link]
They use it on Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and even the latest Ponyo on the Cliff.

~Fruitsexual Mar 25, 2009, 4:12:32 PM

It's probably a program specific to the company. A lot of animation studios create their own animation programs based on general stuff from other purchasable programs. I knwo Pixar is like that and a few others. For a style like that, it might even be a 3D aniamtion program, because 3D Studio Max has an option of making the images look liek pen and ink pictures that can move. Might try wikipedia if anything.

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~ashwara Mar 25, 2009, 5:50:33 PM

Huh, that's really interesting. Even if they didn't use it in yamadas it's good info! Thanks a lot!

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~windlab Apr 6, 2009, 3:57:29 PM

Malformed URL in your link, there's a surplus "]" on the end.

Having watched and loved almost all of the Ghibli works (not My Neighbours the Yamadas, incidentally), I'm interested to have discovered what they used, thanks for sharing.