Spirits of Ghibli Anime: Returning to Hand Drawing in Ponyo
Hayao Miyazaki’s latest anime, Ponyo, uses more than 150,000 original sketches and over 170,000 ani-mation images--1.5 times more than those used in Spirited Away. Here, his right-hand men, Katsuya Kondo (Supervising Animator) and Noboru Yoshida (Art Director) share behind-the-scenes stories with Chopsticks NY.