I had no doubts because I had already decided what I was going to do... the image boards were the storyboards" (from an interview with Suzuki Toshio at the end of this book). "Castle in the Sky" (released in 1986) is the film that Hayao Miyazaki envisioned as an elementary school student. This book features a total of 142 drawings depicting the world of the film prior to production, including characters, landscapes, and props that evoke the story. ----
Hayao Miyazaki creates hand-drawn illustrations to conceive his ideas for his films and to communicate the concepts to his staff. These are called "image boards". Hayao Miyazaki Image Board Series is a complete collection of Miyazaki's "image board" artwork held at Studio Ghibli including unpublished works. In this large book with a trim size of 35.0 x 27.7 cm (12.8 x 10.1 in), portrait, the illustrations are reproduced at or close to their original size, in its true colors and texture of the original drawings realized by high-quality printing. Discover how the fascinating world of Miyazaki's creation begins.
