How to make studio ghibli animation?

[Cute Bringer]

Just curious.

[syn1kk]

Given your post title and post contents. Sorry for being overly verbose and rambling here but it's actually quite simple.

Step 1: make a studio ghibli animation.

Step 2: done.

[Cute Bringer]

Sorry for privately posting you.But what I meant was the graphics.

[Herbert123]

All character animation is hand-drawn, scanned, converted to vector strokes, and coloured. Backgrounds are painted (paper), scanned, and used as backgrounds in Toonz.

Basically, you DRAW. And DRAW. And keep on DRAWING. Professional 2d feature film animators must be able to deliver 7~10 seconds of high quality hand-drawn frames per week. It also depends on the role (senior animator, inbetweener, etc.).

If your drawing skills are lacking - well, you will have to practice, practice, and practice some more.

And the creation of a Ghibli animation entails thousands upon thousands of man hours.

If you are interested in recreating a short version by yourself in the Ghibli's animation style: no shortcuts are available. A lot of skill, sweat, and time is involved. And that is it. You should watch the Ghibli documentary.

[Cute Bringer]

Couldn't find anything why don't you do a tutorial or somebody do a tutorial.

[Rodney Baker]

You should have been around before there was an internet... and google.

Animators have endless resources that were hard to come by back in that day.

A search on "How to draw Studio Ghibli style' produces some pretty decent results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+draw+studio+ghibli+style&biw=1920&bih=979&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq65qx8uPNAhWCDT4KHUChBo0Q_AUIBygC

Similar to what Herbert123 stated my advice would be as follows:

Buy a ream of paper (that's 500 sheets) or better yet a box of paper (that might be 8 to 10 reams of paper or a larger box might contain 20 reams).  So 10x 500 = 5000 sheet of paper.

Draw a drawing on one of those sheets of paper with a pencil and then place it into a box.

Then take another piece of paper and draw on that one.  Place that one also in the box.

Continue drawing on those sheets of paper until either the box is full or you run out of paper (Note:  You should never run out of paper though because if you start to run out... go buy more paper!)

Now... WHILE YOU ARE DOING THIS.

Also draw on the computer.  (no need for paper)

Save these drawings to a folder.

Attack those things that you think you cannot draw.

For example:  if you don't think you can draw hands... draw hands until you are sick of drawing hands... then draw more hands!

If you want to learn how to draw Ghibli style hands.... look at the hands of the characters in their animation.

Can't draw horses.... draw horses until you can.

As you draw experiment with different styles... Studio Ghibli's style...  and other styles that catch your interest.

Every now and again try to draw in a style of your own... no one can do that but you so it's not like you can do that wrong!  :)

Specificially to draw like Studio Ghibli:

Draw your drawings both looking at reference of Studio Ghibli's work (on computer screen... on paper... via DVD (freeze frame and in motion) wherever you can find them) 

Every once in awhile try to draw without using the reference but then later double check your work against the reference... what areas were you close in... which areas need work?

And here's one more.... TRACE THE DRAWINGS OF THE SPECIFIC STYLE YOU ARE TRYING TO ASSIMILATE UNTIL YOU START TO GET A FEEL FOR THE STYLE.

Then draw looking at the reference.

Then draw without looking at the reference.

And a few hundred drawings later.... there you go drawing like Studio Ghibli.  :)

And best of all, if you've been drawing other things you'll begin to add whatever style you want into what you are working on at that time.

I am BOLD FACING the info about tracing not because I want to scream it but because lots of folks think of using reference and especially tracing as CHEATING.

Um... yes it is... and that is why you are doing it!

You are trying to get from point A to point B as fast as possible and so you are studying the style that you want to be able to draw.

The fastest way to learn that would be to have someone from Studio Ghibli sit down with you and walk you through the process.

BUT assuming that isn't going to be possible you have to use their work as the instructor.

So study it.  

Then put the pencil, mouse or stylus down and consider what you want to do with that skill once you've accomplished it.

If you really want to draw and animate like Studio Ghibli you can!

But I suppose the question then will be. once you can draw and animate like Studio Ghibli will you still want that?

And, don't forget to post your progress!  

Draw.  Get feedback from other people.

Draw.  Get feedback from other people.

Draw.  Get feedback from other people.

Fight for feedback!  

And, good luck!  :)

[Rodney Baker]

I should have also said...

If you want to animate like Studio Ghibli you are actually trying to draw and (to a large degree) animate like Hayao Miyazaki.t

In order to draw like Mr. Miyazaki I would recommend you study his STORYBOARDS.

There are many things you'll pick up regarding the Ghibli style from Miyazaki's storyboards; style, pacing, composition, staging, camera framing... on and on and on...

Here's a link to a bunch of his storyboards:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Miyazaki%27s+Storyboards&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiSur7E-OPNAhWEbB4KHUioBOcQ_AUICCgB&biw=1920&bih=979

Note that Mr. Miyazaki draws very roughly and quickly in order to capture his ideas.

While he is searching for the ideal drawing that will best relate his story he doesn't get too caught up in one drawing.

He's very likely thrown away more drawings that most of us will EVER draw.

[Cute Bringer]

What I meant was the coloring.As in anime coloring.

[Rodney Baker]

So you have the line drawn animation and you now want to color it?

[El GrafikO]

It's funny how every time you get a good answer you reply with: What I meant was. Shouldn't you formulate your question appropriately before posting? 

[Cute Bringer]

I get confused.But seriously how do you make anime coloring in toonz?

[Faktengag]

Take a look at this tutorial, maybe it helps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcZ2pnCRY0M

OpenToonz - Colors & EFFECTS! (Part 3)

Mr Dan INSANE

[Rodney Baker]

Try this video out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4LczSafvOs

It covers general Manual painting.

Here's another one from that same author on automatic coloring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-yNdH2um10

Other folks have been posting video tutorials on use of the color palettes too.

The Studio Ghibli approach to coloring animation is the same as that you'll find in OpenToonz.  :)

Edit:  I see Fakentgag posted the earlier video in that same series.  You probably should go through them one by one from the first.

Thanks Fakentgag!

[Jesus Gardea]

What you should also try after you are done coloring, is Dwango's Chromatic Abberation plugin, it gives it that retro look to your drawing depending on how much you use on each RGB color, and gamma.