Award-winning abbreviate blur administrator Mitsuyo Miyazaki told The Hollywood Reporter annual that she is accommodating with anime administrator Koji Morimoto on a live-action/anime amalgam short. Miyazaki declared Morimoto as "one of the a lot of admired animators in the world."

Miyazaki's website addendum that she is "in pre-production for her new reside action/animation abbreviate blur sponsored by Lexus and produced by The Weinstein Company." Miyazaki appeared at a examination affair for Lexus and The Weinstein Company's abbreviate blur alternation at the Directors' Guild of America in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Miyazaki delved into filmmaking afterwards belief music and assuming arts and affective to the United States as a teenager. She won abundant all-embracing blur anniversary awards for "Tsuyako" — her University of Southern California apriorism blur that she partly financed through the Kickstarter fundraising site. In the short, "Tsuyako, a branch artisan and mother, have to adjudge amid assignment and love, her ancestors and her freedom."

Morimoto has formed as an anime director, filmmaker, beheld creator, and art director. He was complex with television anime series, films, and aboriginal video projects including Akira, Magnetic Rose, Extra, Ai Monogatari, Macross Plus, and Tekkonkinkreet. He directed the Beyond articulation in The Animatrix, the band fan admired Noiseman Sound Insect, the "Connected" music video for Ayumi Hamasaki, and the "Dimension Bomb" allocation of the Genius Affair album film.

As a founding member, Morimoto formed at Flat 4°C from 1989 to 2011. He now helms the new Φphy artistic aggregation as Executive Art Director. The flat produces anime but aswell creates added works.