Animation has found a fresh new life on Vine. This week's Mashable Vine Challenge is dedicated to one of the great animators of our generation, Hayao Miyazaki.
News came earlier this week that Miyazaki, acclaimed Japanese director and animator, will retire. Miyazaki is beloved for his whimsical animated features, which include Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro and Castle in the Sky.
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For this week's challenge, we want you to create a Vine video inspired by the world of Miyazaki. You could feature his characters or give his animation style a try.
Just be sure to tag your entry with #MiyazakiVine so we can find it. You have until 11 a.m. ET on September 11 to enter. Our favorite entries will be featured in a follow-up post on Mashable.
Who better to host a Vine challenge tribute to Miyazaki than imaginative Kuwaiti Vine illustrator Pinot? When Vine first launched, Pinot immediately stood out for his seamless and magical Vine animations that combined physical sketching with video stop motion.
Pinot is vocal about avoiding the use of CGI effects in his videos, opting instead for hand-created effects using pen, watercolor and marker. He often creates insightful, behind-the-scenes Vine videos to give us a look at his organic process.

"My father is a comic illustrator and animator. He followed Walt Disney's technique and style — always with 24 frames-per-second and all moving objects, even for faces and mouths. 'In animation, every object has soul. So we move everything except the background,' he would tell me. He never liked Japanese anime style with its stiff objects and fewer frames per second.
Then, Hayao Miyazaki changed everything. Miyazaki proved that animation with fewer frames could also tell great stories. Best of all, Miyazaki brought a new type of childhood fantasy — not the usual tale of Prince Charming. His stories deliver messages of ecological problems, nature-life reality and strong, high-functioning families. As parents of three kids, I am happy to have Miyazaki's movies fuel their creativity — a great balance for the fare of Disney princesses.
One of my favorite quote[s] from Miyazaki: 'Hand drawing on paper is the fundamental of animation.' Most people claim they cannot draw, but I'm sure [they] have doodled on a napkin paper. People don't realize when their hand holds a pen and dances on paper to create swirly lines, they're creating animation.
Image: Vine, Pinot