TIMELINE CLEANSE old aeronautical delights from a postcard set from the #StudioGhibli "Imaginary Flying Machines" animated short, 2002 (Kūsō no Sora Tobu Kikaitachi , 空想の空飛ぶ機械達) 🧵 1/ - ThreadSky

exoticaviation.bsky.social • 29 days ago

TIMELINE CLEANSE

old aeronautical delights from a postcard set from the #StudioGhibli "Imaginary Flying Machines" animated short, 2002 (Kūsō no Sora Tobu Kikaitachi , 空想の空飛ぶ機械達)
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exoticaviation.bsky.social•29 days ago

in the six-minute short, the legendary Hayao Miyazaki appears as an anthropomorphic pig narrator

the majority of flying machines depicted are fantastical in nature - this scene also being reminiscent of the great illustrator Albert Robida

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exoticaviation.bsky.social•29 days ago

Imaginary Flying Machines screened at the Studio Ghibli Museum between 2002-2004, and then on JAL flights in 2012

(salivating here at the thought of a Robur the Conqueror/MASTER OF THE WORLD adaptation)

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squid.aureanus.co.uk•28 days ago

Studio Ghibli and steampunk flying warship!!

This pushes so many buttons, I may even go squeeze

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exoticaviation.bsky.social•29 days ago

"According to Miyazaki's avatar..people came to believe that they could fly anything by reducing the weight of engines and gears and increasing the number of propellers, and many unusual things in 19th century European scientific novels."

(https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Imaginary_Flying_Machines#Ghibli_x_JAL_787)

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exoticaviation.bsky.social•29 days ago

"[Imaginary Flying Machines] was animated traditionally & then manipulated with 3D to create realistic and complex movements while preserving the 2D hand-crafted texture. This technology..was epoch-making, & was utilized in the movement of the castle & war scenes in Howl's Moving Castle (2004)"

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exoticaviation.bsky.social•29 days ago

from the Miyazaki Pig Narrator: "It was man's dream since the ancient past to fly the great skies freely as a bird. People imagined various ways of flying and thought up flying vehicles that moved by manpower or by the powers of science."

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exoticaviation.bsky.social•29 days ago

towards the end, Imaginary Flying Machines deviates into unfamiliar Studio Ghibli territory - depicting sleek futuristic spacecraft

"Miyazaki's avatar steps into one such airship, and we see images of what it must be like being in one of them"

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graham-m.bsky.social•28 days ago

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