Hayao Miyazaki's first computer CG animation, Polo the Caterpillar, will be released at the Ghibli Museum on March 21. The director, screenwriter and producer of the film are all Hayao Miyazaki. Running for a total of 14 minutes, as a short film, it mainly depicts a world seen from the perspective of a caterpillar.
Hayao Miyazaki is a world-renowned master of animation, and works such as Spirited Away and Totoro are classic animated films that can leave a name in film history. For decades, Miyazaki has insisted on using traditional hand-drawn animation. He once declared: "So that children can feel that they are running on the waves like a wave girl." "In this way, every passerby is alive, not just to set off the protagonist." ”
However, during the creation of "Caterpillar Polo", Miyazaki encountered difficulties in designing the caterpillar image, so he tried to solve it with the help of computer CG technology. It is said that the final CG effect made Miyazaki "very satisfied", which also made him change his mind about computer animation.