{"id":25,"date":"2018-01-31T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.eigafan.com\/sayoasaen\/?p=25"},"modified":"2018-06-08T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T07:31:11","slug":"character-design-and-chief-animation-director-yuriko-ishii-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.eigafan.com\/sayoasaen\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Character design and chief animation director: Yuriko Ishii interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2015\u2015There are a lot of scenes of daily life in <em>Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms<\/em>.<br \/>\nISHII: Yes, there are. You need a lot of original images if you want to show natural movement, so the animators worked very hard. When checking the work, director Okada often said, \u201cI want there to be more movement like this\u201d. With actions we see every day, like \u201csitting in a chair\u201d or \u201cholding something\u201d, if it\u2019s not done right it looks strange. Also, we were very eager because it was going to be a theatrical film.<br \/>\n\u2015\u2015When did you first meet director Okada?<br \/>\nISHII: The first time I met her in person was location scouting for <em>Hanasaku Iroha<\/em>. But since then we didn\u2019t have a lot of time to speak face to face, maybe just a few days location scouting for another job. This time, working with her in the same space, seeing her powerful script, I felt like I saw another side of her. It\u2019s like there\u2019s a little girl inside an adult. For example, she would draw caricatures of me during work (laughs). I put it on the side of my desk. When I would get frustrated, I would just look at the caricature and think, \u201cdon\u2019t forget to smile\u201d.<br \/>\n\u2015\u2015What was your working relationship with director Okada?<br \/>\nISHII: As chief animation director, I am responsible for making the characters expressive. So, there were a lot of times when director Okada had very particular notes. For example, like \u201cthe face is not that angry, but there is a lot of different emotions within them\u201d. Director Okada is very particular about delicate emotional expressions. She sat close to me, so if I was drawing and still couldn\u2019t figure it out, I could ask her, and then was able to better grasp the expression.<br \/>\n\u2015\u2015What do you think about the character Maquia?<br \/>\nISHII: I was moved when I first read the script, but I don\u2019t think I really understood her as a character at that point. In my work up until now, I sort the character individuality into categories and I draw the character\u2019s expressions based on that, but I felt like that wouldn\u2019t really work for the character of Maquia. On the other hand, that\u2019s not to say that I understood how Maquia would feel. Instead, I approached it from the position of myself, walking alongside Maquia, wondering what kind of face she would be making at a particular moment, and then drew her expression with that distance between us. I hope that people can feel all the different emotions of the characters as they watch the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Yuriko Ishii\u2019s main works include <em>Hanasaku Iroha<\/em> (main animator), <em>Another, Nagi no Asukara<\/em>, and <em>Kuromukuro <\/em>(character design and chief animation director for all three).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2015\u2015There are a lot of scenes of daily life in Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. ISHII: Yes, there are. 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