Working on my Anime Panel masterpost which I'll post later today, probably, and these didn't quite fit in, but they're interesting and it's only about 12 minutes of Miyazaki's discussion, but interesting anyway.
I recommend The Future Of Animation video quite a lot. The part about the animators having to work to accommodate the machines and in the rhythm of machines screams of Marxist alienation of work and so forth.
Also recommend Hayao Miyazaki in Conversation with Roland Kelts
This was charming. Nothing really revolutionary but very interesting. The insight on the digital component creating a different kind of artist is interesting. He's right, if you do lots of digital art you become a good digital artist instead of a good traditional artist, and the habits you learn as a digital artist you'll try and replicate in any traditional art which will come out very differently to another artist that focuses on it alone. It's an interesting look inside the long-term thought of Japanese companies too, what with them usually keeping their staff for multiple decades, developing the skills of the staff is so much more important in this kind of industry with that kind of culture towards staffing compared to companies that keep staff 2-5 years at a time now.
