GHIBLI!
all from my notebook:
The museum itself was a colorful building with interesting architecture. There were many beautiful stained glass windows that had characters from Miyazaki's movies in them. I wanted to take pictures of them (and EVERYTHING else) but photography was not allowed inside ;(
The first room in the museum, the permanent exhibit, was very memorable. It was full of things I had never seen anywhere else. ever! There was a giant dollhouse with 2 openings that you could look through. Inside one opening was a group of human pigs (like in Spirited Away) eating dinner sloppily at a nice table. One of the pigs was Miyazaki himself. They were crafted so wooonderfully. Next were some strange sketches of, I don't know... how to explain. This is the best part: A large cylindrical exhibit that had a whole lot of stuff going on in it. The neko bus was running in mid air, Totoro was walking, bats were flying, Mei was walking, and Satsuki was riding a unicycle. After about 60 seconds of flat out awe, the activity slowed down, the lights turned on, and the activity was revealed to be a rotating thing with figurines of each individual frame for each of the characters. It looked like they were moving in place flawlessly because they were under a strobe light. It was like live action clay animation, but with... plastic figures. The point is, it was the coolest thing ever.
Then there were panorama view boxes that had layers upon layers of painted sections of a frame. The most beautiful one was a forest with Mei in the foreground, a bunch of layers of trees, grass, fallen leaves, and Totoro in the background. So if you looked straight on you wouldn't be able to see Totoro -- you would have to move to the side a bit. It totally looked like a 3D computer generated image.
In another room there was a replication of Miyazaki's home studio. The walls were covered in sketches for all of his movies. They were masterpieces! He had hundreds of little glass bottles filled with paints of all colors. And then... on display were the complete story boards for all of his films! TOTALLY complete! Way too much to look at. In another room there was a playground in the shape of a soft neko bus. Kids could climb in and all over it.
OH YEAH, in the permanent exhibit room there was another rotating cylindrical display with slits it in to create the illusion of either birds or butterflies flying out of the Laputa robot's hands, and all around him. It was soooo cute (and heartwarming? ;p).
The museum itself was a colorful building with interesting architecture. There were many beautiful stained glass windows that had characters from Miyazaki's movies in them. I wanted to take pictures of them (and EVERYTHING else) but photography was not allowed inside ;(
The first room in the museum, the permanent exhibit, was very memorable. It was full of things I had never seen anywhere else. ever! There was a giant dollhouse with 2 openings that you could look through. Inside one opening was a group of human pigs (like in Spirited Away) eating dinner sloppily at a nice table. One of the pigs was Miyazaki himself. They were crafted so wooonderfully. Next were some strange sketches of, I don't know... how to explain. This is the best part: A large cylindrical exhibit that had a whole lot of stuff going on in it. The neko bus was running in mid air, Totoro was walking, bats were flying, Mei was walking, and Satsuki was riding a unicycle. After about 60 seconds of flat out awe, the activity slowed down, the lights turned on, and the activity was revealed to be a rotating thing with figurines of each individual frame for each of the characters. It looked like they were moving in place flawlessly because they were under a strobe light. It was like live action clay animation, but with... plastic figures. The point is, it was the coolest thing ever.
Then there were panorama view boxes that had layers upon layers of painted sections of a frame. The most beautiful one was a forest with Mei in the foreground, a bunch of layers of trees, grass, fallen leaves, and Totoro in the background. So if you looked straight on you wouldn't be able to see Totoro -- you would have to move to the side a bit. It totally looked like a 3D computer generated image.
In another room there was a replication of Miyazaki's home studio. The walls were covered in sketches for all of his movies. They were masterpieces! He had hundreds of little glass bottles filled with paints of all colors. And then... on display were the complete story boards for all of his films! TOTALLY complete! Way too much to look at. In another room there was a playground in the shape of a soft neko bus. Kids could climb in and all over it.
OH YEAH, in the permanent exhibit room there was another rotating cylindrical display with slits it in to create the illusion of either birds or butterflies flying out of the Laputa robot's hands, and all around him. It was soooo cute (and heartwarming? ;p).
