https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksz8TLlKGWA
rly wanna watch this film sometime!
im feeling pretty inspired by this artist as well - ive already seen midori but im growing interested in his other work now- will watch death lullabye soon.
limitless paradise (harada's first movie I think?) was restored and uploaded to the web a couple years ago. I haven't watched it yet though.
>>3mr6adyoq4k2d
thx. I'm rly in love with him past few days even tho I first saw midori so long ago... his lullabye bullying film is gnar
this is sick af.. cant upload its over limit https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t948auAySK1zkp0l7.mp4
>>3mr6tne57bp22
thx for sharing that segment - i found many of the stills for this BOO(?) chara so im so happy to see the animation parts too - this artist has me by the balls - ive already known since midori I saw when younger - but i connected to their political nature this past two days... his work has strong messages, and he's brave to stand strong and be resistant to what he perceives as nefarious forces in the world - rejecting censorship and downvoting fascism - in my books honorable causes with tangible sacrifice -
im copy pasting this from one of his websites that resonates with me
Harada draws on thin paper. He outlines the paper with a pigmented water-based pen and then colors it with paint or design markers. This has been his consistent approach since his first work, "Weak Dinosaur-chan" (1976), when he was 14 years old, to the present.
Thin paper curves when colored.
When he was a lecturer at an art university, a student asked him, "How do I film curved paper?"
In commercial animation, the paper is held down from above with a transparent, non-reflective glass.
However, this increases the filming effort.
He also read an interview with an American cinematographer who said, "Placing a filter or something between the camera lens and the subject will, technically, blur the image."
To that end, Harada places weights of about 10 books on the warped paper for a day.
However, the paper still sometimes warps. Paper is as tough as a weed.
For this reason, the Kiryukan filming stand has low-adhesion double-sided tape attached to all four corners.
But even so, the paper is still warped.
However, this results in natural textures, noise and shadows, which leads to the assertion that the images were drawn by hand and photographed by a human being, not a machine.
The act of actually creating something with your hands has a positive psychological effect and has long been used in cognitive therapy and other methods.
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