🧵 Did you know Hanna-Barbera was the first American animation studio to use a computer system for digital ink-and-paint?

🧵 Did you know the Kodama in Princess Mononoke weren’t based purely on Japanese folklore?

🧵 Did you know the ending of Akira isn’t just an explosion… but the birth of an entirely new universe?

🧵 Unpopular opinion: Perfect Blue is on the same suspense level as Hitchcock.

🧵 The story behind Andrew Stanton’s “In The Blink of An Eye” spans 3 timelines… and the entire arc of humanity.

🧵 Did you know Iron Town in Princess Mononoke is named after a real Japanese furnace called a "tatara"?

🧵 Most people don't realize the "villain" in Ghost in the Shell (1995) isn’t trying to conquer the world.

🧵 Most people don't realize the most radical moment in Ghost in the Shell isn’t the action. It’s when Motoko and the Puppet Master literally speak through each other’s bodies.

🧵 Most people don’t realize some of the best fight scenes in anime are animated at just 8 frames per second.

🧵 Did you know rotoscoping was patented in 1917?

🧵 Most people don't realize why Hotel Transylvania looks so different from other CG movies.

Genndy Tartakovsky basically ignored “realism” on purpose.