During the production of the Steamboy film, what I put my most effort in was the process of layouts, and I did my best to check every detail. Once th….

Since the waiting time required during the rendering process has been dramatically shorter in the last 10 years, I think that CGI animation has final….

The industry in Japan moving toward CGI is not as severe and extreme as in the U.S. The animation industry in the U.S. is firing 2D animators and clo….

Although all studios are now moving towards digitalization, a foundation in which we draw pictures by hand hasn't changed, so I foresee that we will ….

The cartoonist's work is solitary; even when dealing with editors and assistants, there is no such excitement as to creating unexpected drastic chang….

Approximately 400 cuts - that would make 25 percent of the total - use CGI. I worked on the Steamboy's animation production based on the usual handwr….