The Legendary Hayao Miyazaki aka 宮崎 駿

I came across Ponyo cute box set at Artist Gallery the other day while shopping for my Adele's 21 album and was looking forward to get The Secret World Of Arriety but it was sold out. The title of this anime may seem familiar to you guys as it's one of the productions of the world famous legendary animator, Hayao Miyazaki aka 宮崎 駿.


Hayao Miyazaki aka 宮崎 駿 is a  prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Along with Isao Takata, they co-founded Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company who produced many famous anime films, such as Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Ponyo, Princes Mononoke, The Secret World Of Arriety. Miyazaki was listed as 1 of world's most influential people by Times magazine.


Miyazaki's films often incorporate recurrent themes like humanity's relationship with nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. Reflecting Miyazaki's feminism, the protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women. While two of his films, The Castle of Cagliostro and Castle in the Sky, involve traditional villains, his other films like Nausicaä and Princess Mononoke present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities.


His wonderful productions as listed below (just in case you guys want to collect all the tittles mentioned below, which I plan to do so :p):-

Castle in the Sky 

 

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

My Neighbour Totoro

Kiki's Delivery Service

Porco Rosso                           

Princess Mononoke

Spirited Away (Winner of Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, 2002)

Howl's Moving Castlle (Nominee for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, 2005)

Ponyo

The Secret World of Arrietty

Fairy Tales~ Alice In The Wonderland

My whole life is surrounded by books, loads and loads of books. My childhood was filled with fairy tales story books rather than toys (gee, what a nerd!). Hans Christian Anderson, Lewis Carroll and Grimms fairy tales are my all time favourites. It’s not just the story I love, the illustrations are wonderful!

Among all the fairy tales, I love Alice In The Wonderland the most! If you search online there are tones of Alice illustrations available, you will come across gothic Alice, vintage Alice (love it!), Manga Alice and so much more….. I’m going to showcase a few versions of Alice In The Wonderland illustrations I like and please note that I do not own these pictures and the owner of the photos are stated below.

Kim Min Ji Illustrations of Alice In The Wonderland

Cat Delivery~ Alice

IDW Publishing~ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Mari Katogi's Alice In The Wonderland illustration

From VisualizeUs

I'm tempted to create my own version of Alice but since I haven't draw anything for quite some time, I think I might take a while, hmmm..... I hope you'll like this post as much as I do!