a few weeks ago at St Kilda Film Festival, my silly little bug movie ‘Manca’ won the Under The Radar Best Youth Short Film award! ! !
its truly still unbelievable to me, i am so immensely grateful for this acknowledgement and I couldn’t have been happier with the reception of the film when it screened on thursday <3
manca is such a special part of my journey as an animator and filmmaker, though its the third film i’ve made it essentially was the first one where i really explored and discovered my own style. even finishing the film, let alone receiving such a special recognition and platform for it, made it real to me that despite like nearly a decade of worrying that I couldn’t be animator because I started too late or I didn’t work hard enough, that I can be and I very much am a real animator :D and god am I excited to keep creating in this new course and improve (atleast my software) from here !!!
and also big big thanks to my close best friends, Baden, Cosmo, & Lee, who provided their lovely voices to the film and never went on strike <3 , and thanking Baden further for the occasional assistance with writing, being the muse for like 70% of my films, and just being my favourite creative partner. also recording bloodcurdling screams in a closet thats pretty cool too.
thankyou to my family, friends, and teachers who supported me through various stages of this experience. and all you other people who like my drawings and such I hope to bring more to you soon, thanky <3
wonderful wonderful news !
'Manca', my silly little insect film written and animated by me, starring the lovely @/baden.willimott.acting has been selected to screen at this years St Kilda Film Festival on June 11th !
we are beyond excited, I love this festival and this film and we cannot wait to have it be shared thanks to the festival💚🐜
you ever wondered why it's nothing in media from Miyazaki about ai after that early video which is at minimum 8 years old by date this post is written (end of 2025)?
in this post: the answer and instruction on action
the post is big and long - but Shit here is Big and Important
okay i will add read more line but please read it.
post is about how nowadays people in power hides Miyazaki words from english speakers, use wild manipulation tactics being pathetically bad at it - and they do it in defence strategy. and they build Defense because Miyazaki opinion on them is most powerfull Attack
because Miyazaki words and thoughts on ai and on all shit happening around is Power making nowadays dictators piss themself because this power can, and will destroy them and they know it
let's remember a bit how it was
that old video with ai pitch where he says he would never want this shit - ai - near by his work saying ai is insult of life itself
- then technobros made ai instrument for stealing Miyazaki legacy for profit, making money hyping on his fame
- trend with stolen Miyazaki visual style for ai use went viral
- making big damage on nature
- all this is made to famous alive classic guy whoos films are about nature and how important is to be in harmony with it, because shifting balance leading to harm and harm leading to disasters
and after all that we don't have any updates? reaction? only 8 years ago posted video with him saying he would never want ai around and deeply disgust by it's existence?
well, we don't have updates because technobros don't want you to get access to updates on what Miyazaki think about all that shit.
and they do very dirty moves
good news they are pathetically bad at this, so all you need to get to truth - is care just a bit. and if you dig for answers Here - you care A Lot
if you google on english for his recent interviews about ai - on first search result link you have this interesting thing.
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oh oh. seems like guy changed his opinion and now embracing ai? lets read, must be interesting how he went to be ai gogo after fighting all life against thing ai is product of. lets open the article.
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Mhm, Medium. Must be some Medium with some Journalist Articles. Author of publication - Utkarsh Upadhyay - is probably journalist! ho, interview, cool!
Utkarsh Upadhyay is such cool journalist that text is unconnectable from him - did you notice his name on screenshots even? i know right, the guy is professional in being transparent.
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aaa oooooh
it's "fan" article about that the fan - article author - Utkarsh Upadhyay (i thought he is journaliiiist :c) - "think" about Miyazaki words being said in that 8 years ago video.
words "I Embrace Ai Art" in this article are not belong to Miyazaki, but to "article author". it's big big big miyazaki fan ai embracer, who just wrote fan essay 🥺
this is that people suppose to think seeing that google search result, right? that this is link to article about some guy named Utkarsh Upadhyay explaining why he is embracing ai "being miyazaki fan"
because if i search for "Miyazaki about ai 2025" in google, first natural thing is to show me nostalgia critic review on Miyazaki legacy, just guy name is not Doug but Utkarsh. right? this is how it logically suppose to work, of course! nothing strange about it at all
if you google " Miyazaki about ai " - google answer "i embrace ai art" reads as Miyazaki words about ai. Which you was looking for - but found this "fan essay" article, by first google search result. noone looking for "opinion about shit from Utkarsh who Embrace Ai" in research for "what miyazaki says about ai in 2025, after ai companies steel his legacy for profit while he clearly said he is against it years before"
that "fan essay article" is Fake Bite, which trying to look like Interview with Miyazaki, which try to make people believe that Miyazaki fine with ai, instead of truth opinion of him, which is - he hates ai, disgust by it and never want it near his work and not ok with ai existence
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another example of dirty move:
about authority of him by the way - i saw another, absolutely pathetic try of technobros to lower down his authority in people eyes.
sometimes i accidentally see "recommended news" page (on mu phone it works like - be on main screen and swap right. i do "swap back and forth" sometimes as steeming inbetween 1-2 screens with my apps, so, happens)
all "news" in that "news, speccially for you [from technobros!]" page are bad made plain shit, but
i saw two times "news articles", with tittles like
"old era is going away? miyazaki is not cool anymore - ghibli films are not in top anime with 100% good reviews"
i know it sounds funny and "lol people would not bite on that, who cares about that random anime fake numbers top and what ghibly legacy value has to do with this lol"
technobros think "lets show investors numbers! and we will get that we want!" and they think it works same here - showing numbers, in wait for "get it? miyazaki not cool because he doesn't have cool numbers!!!" while me looking on it with "wow thanks, you can't imagine where that will lead me technobro, and believe me it is not the miyazaki-not-cool direction"
"miyazaki isnt cool!!! he isnt in unknown random anime top with fake numbers!!!" was pathetic, yes - but it shows a lot that technobros are afraid of him as fuck and try to do everything they can think of to not atack
but to build defence
and if technobros afraid of something it is Powerfull. can you imagine something that white rich is afraid and can't calm himself in "well i just cover it by money"?
Miyazaki have that Something - and it's his power of his authority as famous worldwide alive art classic, who Speak.
And his all life time Speech - is against Them.
That's why nowadays nazi dictators keep you away from his words - because it can destroy them
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thing is - their tries are pathetic, and crush just from you trying to care just a bit about situation
first google link is fake article, making it look like he is embracing ai? just open article. and you will open it anyway if you make google research
news with numbers? good, if you saw these news - you know that they doing and how, cause goal was hiding shit by manipulation, but manipulation was made so badly that instead - show real intentions and Much More
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but main question - did Miyazaki said something new after all? he couldn't be silent, right? do we have something aside that 8 years ago video?
of course
we have something more new
but how to find it if technobros hide it and they have power on internet?
answer is just shockingly easy
the only thing they win here, only thing how they keep it silent for people who don't dig in, aside control on media - is that guy is japanese
so they "can" be "calm" a bit and do "silent" moves of defense, and think they can control discussion
in eng speaking internet
can you guess already what you can do to find truth?
i mean. idk what this technobros think about technologies, but seems like they forgot about translation
because all you need to get for getting new info for research, not 8 years ago video manipulative "he actually meant he is fan of ai saying he is disgusted by ai" talks, nostalgia critic reviews and shit like that is
searching in japanese
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i tried to search in japanese, and in first seconds, instead of our dear mega fan Utkarsh Upadhyay ai lover ghibli fan essay, i got that
screenshot is translation of what i get by japanese to english.
[for blind disabled: article in negative tone tells about shit posted on White House X, not even only about ai. i am very sorry for not providing ID's, i don't know atm how to manage resources on that with which i have. it would be very great to have collaboration on that, like i saw people described some of my posts in past.
in general i feel that this topic needs collaboration of people to make research and bring info and do action about it - dm is open]
and "translator can do mistakes" argument not turning all that into "original says miyazaki is cool with ai, now in japanese"
total different optic is that we instantly have here, of course. what i will get then i will look not for seconds by hour? day?
So what you waiting for. Go and look for Answer. You have path to thing that scares dictators of our time and they make everything for you not to get it in defence move.
Making and creating is not that dictators good at, they only "good" at steeling. So if you care enough to start questioning - it is enough for all their efforts go to zero
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You can make The Miyazaki Question research this way:
1. look for how Miyazaki name written in japanese
you will find it [at moment of writing post] easily. he has a lot of biography materials on different websites, books
here is how Miyazaki name was written on his wikipedia page in japanese - 宮崎 駿
2. search by keywords "宮崎 駿 ai 2025"
( Miyazaki name in japanese + ai + year )
3. open articles and use translators
this - is for light research for personal understanding of updates
if you making something like podcast or video about miyazaki words you found this way - you need to check much more, but if you do materials you already know how to work with that
bonus:
- you are winner if you can speak japanese
- also winner if you have friends who talk japanese and you can ask for help on that
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while writing this post i understood that the shit is Big
so, if you interested in collaboration i mentioned above on this - researching, translating from japanese, finding connect with japanese journalists, creators and ghibli studio themselves - i am open to suggestions of maybe to join if this exist, and - my dm is open to start this
