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Studio Ghibli vocabulary in German

Studio Ghibli - Studio Ghibli das Zeichentrickfilmstudio - animation studio der Regisseur - director (male) die Regisseurin - director (female) der Produzent - producer (male) die Produtzentin - producer (female) der Drehbuchautor - screenwriter (male) die Drehbuchautorin - screenwriter (female) der Comiczeichner - comic artist (male) die Comiczeichnerin - comic artist (female) der Cutter - editor (male) die Cutterin - editor (female) der Komponist - composer (male) die Komponistin - composer (female) der Film - film der Anime - anime der Zeichenrtickfilm - animation Nausicaä aus dem Tal der Winde - Nausicaä of the Vally of the Wind Das Schloss im Himmel - Castle in the Sky  Die letzten Glühwürmchen - The Grave of the Fireflies Kikis kleiner Lieferservice - Kiki’s Delivery Service Tränen der Erinnerung – Only Yesterday  Porco Rosso - Porco Rosso Flüstern des Meeres - Ocean Waves  Pom Poko - Pom Poko Stimme des Herzes - Whisper of the Heart Prinzessin Mononoke - Princess Mononoke  Meine Nachbarn die Yamadas - My Neighbours the Yamadas Chihiros Reise ins Zauberland - Spirited Away  Das Königreich der Katzen - The Cat Returns Die wandelende Schloss - Howl’s Moving Castle Die Chroniken von Erdsee - Tales from Earthsee Ponyo - Die Abenteuer am Meer - Ponyo Arrietty – Die wundersame Welt der Borger - Arrietty Der Mohnblumenberg - From Up on Poppy Hill Wie der Wind sich hebt - The Wind Rises Die Legende der Prinzessin Kaguya - The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Erinnerungen an Marnie - When Marnie Was There

Translated from @blackteaandlanguages   Studio Ghibli vocabulary in Finnish

Go for the thing you actually want to do.   Many students, teachers and family told me studying 2D animation in school from 2009- 2013 was foolish because there were already no more 2D animation jobs, and that I should study 3D animation. But I hate rigorous, technical work, I honestly hate computers all together. I’m not built for that kind of thinking, and I’m not interested in it. I was and am far more interested in drawing and film making than mastering technology. I’m almost four years out of school now, and have now had far better career opportunities than many of my 3D classmates because I am passionate about what I do.

My senior year of college,  I narrowed the parts of the animation process that I am most interested in to writing and storyboarding. But, I was afraid to pursue those jobs because I knew from interning in studios that they were highly coveted positions. So, I went for cleanup and animation jobs, hoping to work my way up. I even got lucky and landed character design work down the line, though I’m not particularly interested in design. It was only when i started taking storyboarding classes, making storyboards in my spare time, pursuing storyboarding jobs, calling myself a storyboard artist, that those opportunities started to become available to me. And it turns out, I’m far better at storyboarding than I was at those other positions, because it’s the thing I enjoy the most. This is not to say “don’t take that cleanup job that pays the bills.” Take that job, and do online storyboarding classes at night, and read storyboarding blogs on your lunch break, make storyboard samples and comics in your free time on nights and weekends… Then, ask for storyboard tests, and test and test and test. It might take a while, no worries. Go ahead and put ‘storyboard artist’ on your website in the meantime instead of ‘illustrator’ or 'cleanup’ or whatever your more accurate fallback job is. Don’t work in a studio in your fallback job and wait for someone to give you the opportunity. You might think because you are hard working at your compromise job, the management will reward loyalty with the job you politely asked for, or maybe were even too polite to actually ask for. They won’t give you that job. They probably won’t even help you get that job. So test within that studio if they’ll let you, and apply other places in the meantime while you keep paying the bills with that job.

There’s no excuse to me. Even people who want to direct can direct their own animated shorts in their spare time and build up a commercial directing portfolio from those shorts. You can do the same thing making crappy live action films with borrowed equipment in your spare time. It’s costly and time consuming, but you can throw your musician friend a couple bucks for the score, get a compositor buddy to throw effects on your short in exchange for some animation she needs, and buy a bunch of friends pizza to help you clean up scenes or hold lights or whatever. I’ve done it before.

I used storyboards as an example above, (read blogs during lunch, etc.) but apply that same tenacity towards whatever you want to do: vis dev, character design, comic penciler, stop motion fabricator, 3D modeler, whatever. I want to be a writer now, that’s the next hurdle for me. I’ve written two pilots and I’m taking it seriously, going to writing events, talking to people, refining my work and writing new material, and generally conducting myself as a writer. I have no idea how long, or even if this will take, but I’m pursuing it like it’s real because I enjoy writing, so I think I’d be good at it. Please don’t be one of these people that talks about all the stuff you’re “working on”, when you are really just thinking about working on that stuff. Too many of those in the world, please just go and get things done. “There are those who write, and those who talk about writing.” An adage I like. Apply it to whatever you like “There are those who design characters, and those who talk about designing characters…”

So please, everyone, go for what you want, don’t stop short now. You’ll be a lot better at your job when you’re doing the thing you like.

So I want to get into animation but I can't even draw I can't choose between 2d and 3d and I'm confusedly dumbfounded because of the two above. Please, help me.

How to like yourself

1. Cultivate self-acceptance. That means you accept yourself for who you are right now. It means you don’t say things like “I would accept myself if … or … I’ll accept myself when.”

2. Stop going over all things you’ve done wrong, the mistakes you’ve made, and your (perceived) inadequacies.

3. Where there’s something in your past that you feel bad about say: “This is what I learned from that situation … And that was THEN and this is NOW.”

4. Don’t compare yourself to others . Instead notice the areas where you’ve grown and changed. Deliberately praise and focus on those positive changes.

5. Don’t fall into the trap of judging others – as that will often lead to being self-critical.

I really think the world could use some light and positivity today. I have no words for all the tragedies occurring around the globe, so please have this positive bunny instead. 💛

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Honda Tsubasa (Yoshioka Futaba) - AO HARU RIDE Blog Translations

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"I’ve been allowed to carry out the role of Ao Haru Ride’s Yoshioka Futaba!

I’ll do my best! Until the end!”

credit: Honda Tsubasa’s blog.