We’ve looked at the beautiful watercolor storyboards in Part I, now let’s move on to the concept and background art for Ponyo. ( By the way, Ponyo is in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2008, may it take the Golden Lion home ! ) よしゃ！Here we go !
(Below) Character studies for Sosuke and Ponyo, very often done wtih mini comic scenarios.
(above) Who won’t want to live in such a charming house ? Note the curved, translucent plastic shelter for the parking lot; its designed just like the one found at the real Ghibli Studios in Musashi Koganei.
(above) A giant background art plate. The original art piece was on display at the Studio Ghibli Layout Designs exhibition.
Also read : The Art of Ponyo Part I : Storyboards
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September 4th, 2008 at 3:13 am
It looks quite interesting this book considering I’m always amazed by Ghibli background layouts.
I confess I’m not familiar with this movie yet. I’m still waiting for a DVD release because I don’t live in Japan so I didn’t watch this film in the cinema.
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September 4th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Diego – Thanks for dropping by ! Don’t miss the opportunity to watch this in the cinema when its released in your country ! :]
September 5th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Unfortunately yonghow it’s hardly unlikely for this film to be released in the cinema where I live, in Brazil.
The last Ghibli movie in the cinemas here was Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi(Spirited Away), the rest of the movies are always released in DVD only.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:07 am
The art book is so good. I’ll just have to wait for the English version to come out.
September 14th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
wow. I want to watch thisssss!!! T_T. Looking forward to the release at the theaters…
October 5th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Beautiful stuff. I’m definitely looking forward to seeing this in theatres – might wait for a Blu-ray release so I can have Japanese audio, though.
July 19th, 2009 at 1:43 am
I love it! Does this book have any larger prints of the opening credit storyboard?
April 4th, 2010 at 3:52 am
i love the movie.