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00:00The meeting with the drawing staff is based on the storyboard.
00:16What Takahata is always looking for is a sense of realism.
00:23On this day, Takahata was concerned about the movement of a certain cut.
00:30Even if you cut this, you can't cut it like this.
00:33You have to hit it like this before you cut it.
00:36A boy who is a childhood friend of Princess Kaguya cuts the uri and eats it.
00:42It is said that it is difficult to make an animation with a sense of realism
00:45because of the unconscious movement in everyday life.
00:49Takahata is concerned about the movement of a certain cut.
00:53Yes.
00:54Yes.
00:55I'm worried about that, too.
00:57Yes.
00:58I will never make a mistake this time.
01:00I will never make a mistake this time.
01:01Yes.
01:02When will it be finished?
01:04Oh, it will be finished.
01:06The watermelon will be finished, right?
01:07Yes, yes.
01:08Yes, it will be finished.
01:09I can't see it.
01:10Yes.
01:11It's strange.
01:12Oh.
01:13It's like tofu.
01:16Look, it's a watermelon.
01:17It's amazing, isn't it?
01:19The scene where the main character, Seita, cuts the watermelon.
01:23Takahata was afraid that the watermelon would be cut too easily.
01:30Uri and a knife were prepared for the reference of the animation.
01:34It's good.
01:35It's good.
01:36It's good.
01:37No, it's not here.
01:42It's great.
01:44What Takahata was particular about was the way of cutting the knife and the speed at which the knife entered Uri.
01:54He captured the details of human movement and depicted them.
01:58By doing so, he gave the animation a sense of reality.
02:06That was what Takahata had been doing consistently.