Lovely poster, a perfect example that less is more. Even if I didn’t know what this movie is I’d probably be interested seeing it randomly.
What’s special about this re-release?
They upgraded it to 4k for the first time (I think). I’m still not sure if the upgrade is by rescanning the film or AI based.
it’s ghibli. hayao would burn down the studio before he let them use ai
Yeah I was thinking about that too. Were it up to him I’m sure they wouldn’t use AI to upscale it. I’m not sure though how much of a say he might have on the release though since it’s Toei that handles the distribution. They may have the final say in how things get upscaled or what have you. I would hope though with how heavily against AI Hayao is, that even IF Toei wanted to do an AI upscale, they would refrain in this case.
Ok, but why Anime in more than HD? That’s like zooming in in a vector graphic.
Lots of reasons. 4K TV’s exist and people want to watch these on their modern systems. Zooming in on a vector graphic would produce the same quality image regardless of zoom…that’s kinda the point of vector graphics. But that’s not what we’re talking about here. I think you meant zooming in on a raster image because that would produce the zoom artifacts. But ultimately if they rescanned the film with a higher resolution camera then it’s not zooming in on a raster image. You get a much higher fidelity scan so you get 4K without the zoom artifacting.
Essentially if you watch a lower res (say HD or sub HD) movie on a 4K TV, it will look pixelated to some degree. If however you rescan the original film with a 4K camera then watch the resulting file on a 4K TV, you won’t have the pixelation.
Not sure but I would totally go see it just for the fun of it. Better than many movies releasing these days anyways!
