I watched Kiki's Delivery Service recently with my sisters and niece. I'm always amazed by the artistic vision when I watch a new (to me) Ghibli film. As a grown man, you'd be hard-pressed to get me to watch a cartoon about a young witch if it were made by any other studio. But Ghibli has the magic that makes it delightful for everyone.

The comparison in the article between Kiki drawn with "standard" colors and the final version is really telling. Even though the standard version is more saturated, which in my naive mind should make it more vibrant, it actually looks more bland when you put it side by side with the desaturated colors of the actual drawing. It goes to show how much these little choices influence the final product.

Animation Obsessive continues to deliver some of my favorite reads online. Well researched, detailed, and interesting. I'd wondered about the Ghibli colors, feels like that's not talked about much. Cool article!

Offtopic, but seriously:

>Read distraction-free on Substack

You are the people putting in distractions. You are not some savior with your tracker-filled, bloated app. It's your website!!!

This really humbles me, someone who always thought the Ghibli AI art is okayish. So much time that the normal viewer never acknowledges.