STUDIO GHIBLI Archive is a 4K restoration key

when Princess Mononoc He appeared for the first time again in 1997, and it was a major turning point for the GHibli studio. The studio had already engaged in the pictures created by computer and digital composition with films like Isao Takahata’s Boom Boko Yeni Condono Whisper the heart. but MonOKE The first example of Ghibli was really CGI as a tool to reinforce one of the hand-drawn animation projects-which was the author / director Hayao Miyazaki. He strongly opposes in the past.

The original publications for MonOKE Those that were already examined in theaters were a great show of how Ghibli was smoothly integrating into its work in the traditional workflow. But the studio plans for its next favor MonOKE Restore 4K to be a more permitted example of how to revive the latest innovations than stimulating classic art. When I recently sat with the Vice President of Ghibli Atsushi Okui, who previously worked as a studio photography director and work on movies like Red pig and Hawal the animated castleTell me that the restoration process MonOKE In 4K it has already started a decade ago when the standard first began to rely on a wider scale.

“We have been scanned MonOKE More than 10 years ago, I am very happy because we did it in 4K and then because only now people began to see the effectiveness of coordination, “Okoy said:” The new recovery really talks about the great potential enjoyed by the Salid movie because it really works on the big screen. “

Depending on how to keep a movie, there are different ways in which production role can be directed in restoring and reformulating it. In cases where the original negatives of the film have been damaged or lost, studios can use the prints exported to create high images in higher decisions. Through the artificial height, the end result always includes a degree of computer that does enlightened guesses about the shape that individual frames should look based on the available visual information available. but MonOKE It was filmed on the 35 mm movie, and because GHibli preserved the initial negatives, it managed to produce 4K surveying operations in line with the original MIYAZAKI vision.

“Many of the things I saw before in 2K DCPS (digital cinema packs) have been delivered, but not so to make In 2K, Okoy said. “because MonOKE It was originally filmed on the 35 mm movie, the data -scanned data was 4K. What we did this time is to integrate that data into the final printing and delivered the full film in 4K. “

Instead of adding new details or – as was the case with Latter Interstella 5555 Remaster – An embarrassing attempt to bring the original, 4K pictures, 4K MonOKE The restoration holds the film honestly as its creative team. It will not be possible if it was not for Ghibli while making sure that its negatives are kept carefully. With MonOKE Returning to theaters on March 26, the studio is already considering plans for its next release.

Although there are no ads about the GHibli movie that he wants to process after that, Okui says, “This is something we plan to discuss moving forward.”