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NEWS: Makoto Shinkai's Latest Project




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Chun-Li



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:28 am Reply with quote
Makoto Shinkai is so awesome!!!
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Deltakiral



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:56 am Reply with quote
Chun-Li wrote:
Makoto Shinkai is so awesome!!!
It's time to see how this story will be compare to Voices, and more importantly if it will be better than Places.
Also I am too very excited to see what kind of story Shinkai has in store for us this time....hopefully more awesome music.
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v1cious



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:15 am Reply with quote
i just hope it's more accessible than "That Place Promised...". that movie was very boring and confusing.

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slickwataris



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:45 am Reply with quote
hopefully it will be more like Voices. Places was too long and drawn out. In any case the animation looks beautiful...
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Bruce Lee



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:37 pm Reply with quote
Wow - that trailer is stunning. It looks like he'll be staying with his familiar themes of relationships and distance. The piano track playing in the background was great too - highly reminiscent of Place Promised and Voices. I rated both of those as masterpieces, so I'm really looking forward to seeing this.
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dormcat
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:56 pm Reply with quote
Bruce Lee wrote:
The piano track playing in the background was great too - highly reminiscent of Place Promised and Voices.

Although there's no source indicating who the composer is, the piano score was almost certain to be created by Tenmon, Shinkai's long time collaborator.
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Pleroma



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:22 pm Reply with quote
I could gaze at Shinkai's animated clouds all day, he truly is a rare genius. Regardless of the story (which I will admit can have some weak points) his works are so utterly beautiful that almost every shot is is good enough to frame and hang.

I kid you not when I say that tiny, tiny trailler mooved me with its beauty and that was only 45 seconds!
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Whearn9999



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:11 am Reply with quote
Yes Yes! I can't wait to see his latest work. Voices and Placed Promised are both in my top ten and I'm ready to bump something off to make way for this latest work. The wait's gonna be killer!
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milkmandan



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:14 am Reply with quote
Hooray! I dont know why but his style is just so....well i dont want to say different, cause that sounds corny. Let just say he's damn good Smile
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Bruce Lee



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:21 am Reply with quote
I figured it was Tenmon's work again as well. I'm a big fan of the Place Promised OST as we get a lot more than just the 3 or so renditions of the same theme as with the Voices OST - although that one is still great. I think his music fits perfectly with the atmosphere and themes we've seen present so far in Shinkai's works, and am already looking forward to getting this new OST.

I also found a translation on the web for the text inserts:

The translation wrote:
Do you know?
How the speed at which cherry blossoms fall...

5 centimeters per second
A chain of short stories about their distance.

At what speed must I live,
To be able to see you again?

Director Shinkai Makoto's project

An animated chain of short stories
5 centimeters per second
A chain of short stories about their distance.

Wow... this is going to be a goodie! Very Happy

@TK & Nagi: If that's not ok to post, please edit or delete my post. Sry ahead of time.
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Anthony P



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:10 pm Reply with quote
slickwataris wrote:
hopefully it will be more like Voices. Places was too long and drawn out. In any case the animation looks beautiful...

Well, it is going to be comprised of short films, so we can hope for the best. Does anyone know if this new project was written by Shinkai as well? If it is written by Shinkai, I'm going to be looking for improvement; I think that's really the only area that he needs to work on.

Oh by the way, slickwataris, props on the Mono avatar. Smile
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Pleroma



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:30 pm Reply with quote
Info courtesy of an fansub group:

Quote:
As promised, here's the translation of Makoto Shinkai's
feelings towards this new work (5 Centimeters Per Second):
"5 Centimeters Per Second" is a story drawn about a boy who
acts as the axle of an animated chain of three separate,
independent short stories. The setting of the story
stretches from Japan of the early 1990's to Japan of today.
As the boy's life changes, so do the places in the animation
- ranging from Tokyo to other various places in the Kantou
region.

In this work, there are no sci-fi, fantasy or any other
fictional elements found commonly in many other animation
works. In exchange for all of that, we are trying to instead
display reality as it really is after having performed some
very thorough location hunting.

Our everyday lives are indeed mostly not filled with
dramatic ups and downs, shocking betrayals, or sudden
revelations. However, in the end, despite all that, the
world still continues to live on filled to the brim various
beauties and richnesses.

Right now, we're aiming to make such a work that will catch
those sides of reality mentioned above so that even after
you're done watching the movie, you'll be able to take a new
look at the landscapes you're so used to and see them
shining more than they ever have before.


I was hoping for some more sci-fi, but ultimately this is what Shinkai does best so I am still very excited.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:45 pm Reply with quote
I'd like to know if anyone else has noticed the spoiler[donut-shaped afocal spots, a signature of reflex zoom lens (similar to Cassegrain telescopes)]. I'm sure this was intentional, for a computer-generated animation needs no spoiler[zoom lens] to take a shot. However, creating spoiler["donuts" instead of normal blur of standard zoom lens / naked eyes] broughts up the feeling that we audiences are recording lives of those characters spoiler["through the lens of a (video) camera"] as observers/historians.

Now that's what I called an otaku eyesight.
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