Shigeru watanabe biography
Watanabe Shigeru and colleagues at Keiō University, where he is a professor of psychology, trained pigeons to distinguish different paintings.
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Pilot film of Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
Pilot film version of the anime film
The very first anime work produced by Gainax following their incorporation as a company in December was a four-minute "pilot film" version of their concept for an original anime project to be entitled Royal Space Force.
The project had been initially pitched to Bandai in September of that year by Hiroyuki Yamaga and Toshio Okada,[1] then associated with Daicon Film, an amateur film group, many of whose staff would shortly join the new professional studio Gainax.[2] Hesitation by Bandai to enter the film business required Gainax to first make the "pilot film" of Royal Space Force as a demo to determine if the project would be saleable.[3] Shigeru Watanabe, an early supporter of the plan at Bandai who would later become co-planner of the feature-length version of Royal Space Force, showed the pilot film to both Mamoru Oshii and Hayao Miyazaki, already e