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Hayao Miyazaki Works With CG Animator Yūhei Sakuragi

CG animator Hayao Miyazaki for an project.

Sakuragi also mentioned that advertising animation studio founded in 2011, is working on the project.

Sakuragi served as CGI director on debuted on Friday. The short was animated at Steve N' Steven.

Studio Ghibli's Toshio Suzuki added in July that the short will be 10-minutes long, but it took three years to complete. The new work will be Hayao Miyazaki's first CG-animated work.

The short will be about a small hairy caterpillar named Princess Mononoke.

Despite his cover for Westall's The Call and Other Stories.

Hayao Miazaki also told The Hollywood Reporter last year, "I do want to continue making short films such as the ones we show at the Ghibli Museum. I will continue making those. We will continue to make short films for the Ghibli Museum with a small staff of animators. But I think gradually it will quietly disappear in the future."

Regarding CG animation, Hayao Miyazaki told Variety last year, "I think talent decides everything. More than the method, what's important is the talent using it. There's nothing inherently wrong or right about a method, whether it be pencil drawings or 3-D CG. Pencil drawings don't have to go away, but those who continue to use the medium lack talent. So sadly, it will fade away."

Sources: Variery, animeanime.jp