Three Ghibli's Spirited Away Scenes Recreated With Blender

3D Artist Noggi offered a behind-the-scenes look at this project and shared advice on recreating 2D anime-style art in 3D.

In this video, Noggi showcased three different Spirited Away scenes recreated with Blender and pondered the question of whether you can actually recreate a full 2D scene in 3D and, most importantly, should you?

The artist talked about popular YouTube tutorials on anime-style 3D scenes, discussed the limitations of 3D animation in this context, and shared his personal experience and key takeaways from this project.

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If you want to get a deeper insight into how Noggi created this project or want to get all the custom tools they made, get the project files on Patreon featuring:

All characters
All environments
All 8 custom texture paint brushes
A custom "dehance" compositor filter

A while ago, Noggi also animated a scene from Berserk and reimagined Deadpool in 3D anime style:

For those looking for a place to start learning anime-style techniques in 3D, we recommend checking out Trung Duy Nguyen's beginner-friendly tutorial on stylized foliage, crzyzhaa's video on waterfall animation, and SouthernShotty's guide to recreating Soot Sprites: