6/12/2023 0 Comments Ponyo scenery![]() ![]() ▼ Knowing that Ponyo is a huge draw to the town, the tourist center puts out a map of all the Ponyo-based spots to visit. The houses, the boats bobbing in the harbor, and the view of the town when looking at it from above on the surrounding mountains make you wonder whether you should start diving and looking for some magical fish. ![]() Walking around the town, you really do get this feeling like you’ve just stepped into Ponyo. ▼ It’s unclear whether he ate nothing but ham his whole time there to inspire Ponyo’s love of the meat. ▼ Tomonoura has been the inspiration and filming location for several other dramas and movies as well.īut enough of those other shows back to Ponyo! While spending the two months in Tomonoura doing research, Hayao Miyazaki spent some of it living in a traditional old-style Japanese house, to get that authentic, rustic feel. ▼ Here’s the inside of Fukuzenji Temple, where a quote from a Korean ambassador visiting pre-modern Japan declares it “the most picturesque spot in Japan.” We’d be hard pressed to disagree. I can see Ponyo and Sosuke running up this to escape the encroaching sea monsters. ▼ This basically looks like a cell out of a Ghibli movie. ▼ To the surprise of no one, Tomonoura is not only one of Japan’s top 100 most historical towns, but also top 100 most scenic. ▼ Ah, I can hear the ship bells and sea gulls harmonizing with the waves. Let us descend into the beautiful port town! ▼ The view of Tomonoura from the surrounding mountains. All it takes is a Shinkansen ride to Fukuyama City, then a bus ride to get to this scenic port town. It’s located at the southern tip of Fukuyama City in Hiroshima Prefecture, right along the coast of the Seto Inland Sea. To visit Tomonoura, we first had to get there. Read on to check out the beautiful scenery for yourself, and see the effect that Ponyo has had on the town, as well as the effect the town had on Miyazaki. That’s because it was taken in the port town of Tomonoura, where Hayao Miyazaki and his team spent months getting the inspiration and imagery to create their next animated film.Īs massive Ghibli fans, we had to take a look at the town for ourselves and see what real-life Ponyo looks like. I run the images through a batch encoder with Irfanview to get rid of black borders on the image, rename the files, and conform them to jpg.Ħ.If you’ve seen Ponyo, Studio Ghibli’s adorable movie about a fish girl who wants to be human, then the above location may seem pretty familiar. and bring down the number of stills to my 60-65 golden number.ĥ. I go through the folder again (immediately)looking at the frames on large preview and try and remove frames that replicate a certain lighting style or framing. I’m then left with usually around 80-100 really interesting frames. I view all the frames as a slideshow and I remove any frame that there are doubles of (someone might be blinking in first frame and normal in second) or remove any that seem less interesting this time around.Ĥ. So the next step is to edit, usually there might be a week or 2 between the first grab and this edit stage. ![]() This usually leaves me with around 200-250 frames per film. Depending on mood I could spend a few hours just doing the grabbingģ. I watch through the movies on VLC, usually between 3x and 4x speed while listening to podcasts, grabbing any frame that interests me. i try to keep a mix of styles.genres/directors and DP’s so I dont get bored while working.Ģ. Make a to do pile, its a combination of recommendations, stuff Ive been enjoying myself, stuff I want to rewatch…. ![]() Hi Arturo, Ive considered having a donate button, but I feel bad for asking for money, maybe I’ll post an amazon wishlist so people can contribute in that way sending me movies I want to feature on the site.ġ. ![]()
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