Miyazaki

ChatGPT studied and lifted the art styles of Pixar and the great director Hayao Miyazaki, allowing users to plug a photo of themselves into the program to transform it into a poor, bastardized regurgitation of something truly beautiful.

Before landing on the small ape of “The Legend of Ochi,” Saxon first considered a giant oaf and then something closer to the slumbering beast of Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro.”

While he sat at the Hinata Sun Marine Stadium in Miyazaki, observing nothing more than bullpens and batting practices, Friedman was struck by the scene.

San, a princess raised by wolves, was the war-painted protagonist of Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 animated film.

Hayao Miyazaki’s works are tinged with autobiographical moments, such as his mother’s hospitalization with tuberculosis — an element of both “My Neighbor Totoro” and “The Wind Rises” — or his father building rudders for fighter planes during World War II, a piece of his own history we see alluded to in the Oscar-winning “The Boy and The Heron.”