Lol yeah I just found the tumblr translation version with some additives beyond that article. Supposedly there are a bit of job cuts going on and such due to revenue, and they're looking or were talking about basically going back to what the Studio use to be when they were basically pulling in freelance artists. I tried finding it but can't :c But I feel I wasn't too far off the mark with Ghibli working like Disney/Pixar and pull in other animators, writers, ect and i'm really hoping they'll try to do a sense of collaborative works with all the animators within Japan(and maybe outside), cause there are a ton of amazing animators over there.
Shinbo being foremost favorite of mine, pound for pound style. Most notable fame, Magicia Madoka, but personal favorite Sensei Zetsubou. Be weird to pull him from the heavily otaku and ecchi like scenario, but his animation work is amazing. His use of bring in the real life inside the animation, static patterns, and vectored colors and shapes, as well as a lot of calligraphy cuts.
Then a rising favorite, Masaaki Yuasa(whom also has influences from Cagliostro XD) notable works being recently onboard for Space Dandy, Mind Game, Tatami Galaxy, Kaiba and most recently Ping Pong the Animation, which was real good 12ep. Hes extremely good at making colorful acid trip like sequences, heavily used in Dandy. Great use of color and just overall woobly effects. If you've seen Champloo, he was the animating director for Ep9, which was the episode Mugen finds the tribe of mountain monks? and they're growing a field of pot, shit burns down sequence pursues. I think Yuasa might fit better as a collaborative effort with Ghibli has his body of work is pretty diverse and can definitely deliver a very enjoyable film geared towards a young audience, while remaining adult like themes.
And of course if you've seen Mindgame, you know. Thats is a movie thats definitely worth a watch.
And I saw <33, was more meaning towards articles that praise Ghibli, its never mentioned. It recently got its collectors edition made, still waiting for mine to arrive. Comes w/ multi-audio track with Hayter and Yamada(i'd imagine other languages, I just don't know their VA's), and should come w/ a small artbook with a bunch of movie posters and other artworks revolving around the movie.
