Summary

How do you make a good animated movie?

You have to start with the right animators and creatives;KenjiKamiyamais that guy.

But, Kamiyama traded in replicants and lightsabers for horses and giant eagles inWar of the Rohirrim.

Kikuchyo screaming in rage in Seven Samurai

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He revealed his biggest influences while alsoconnecting it to Japanese cinema.

you’re free to check out the full conversation in the player above or read the transcript below.

So, thats something that I also used as a reference.

A woman on a horse, both armored, charges toward the camera in The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim'

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So, that was exciting as well as so much fun for me.

This is the first film set in Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth since 2014.

I can imagine that being very daunting, but I don’t think you’re a stranger to that.

Hera (Gaia Wise) riding a horse in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’

You’ve done Lord of the Rings now, and you’ve also done Star Wars.

That would be a hugely fun challenge for me.

Just imagining it, that would be very exciting for me.

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The untold story behind Helm’s Deep, hundreds of years before the fateful war, telling the life and bloodsoaked times of its founder, Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrimis in theaters now.

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