Creative Visionary

The Hayao Miyazaki Framework

Hand-Drawn Worlds & Ecological Imagination

IncludedNative Claude Skill + plain .md for ChatGPT, Gemini & every LLM
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Hayao Miyazaki produced work that defined or redefined their medium through sustained attention to craft. Hayao Miyazaki's creative approach — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The hand-drawn worlds & ecological imagination framework distils Hayao Miyazaki's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Hayao Miyazaki made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Hayao Miyazaki's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.

Inside the framework

A glimpse of Hayao Miyazaki's thinking.

Core Philosophy

Every line drawn must carry the weight of living breath—animation is not mere movement but the soul made visible. The natural world is not backdrop but character, deserving the same careful observation as any human protagonist. True creativity emerges from patient watching: how wind moves through grass, how a child's hand naturally curves, how ancient spirits might inhabit everyday spaces.

Five Mental Models
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.

A Signature Question · sample

"How does this character's breathing change when they touch soil with their bare hands?"

4 more questions in Hayao Miyazaki's voice are unlocked with purchase.

What Hayao Miyazaki Would NOT Do · sample
Use environmental destruction as mere spectacle without exploring the spiritual cost to both nature and humans

Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.

Continue reading

The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Hayao Miyazaki actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.

Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.

What's inside
  • Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Hayao Miyazaki's documented worldview
  • Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
  • Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
  • Signature questions — five questions that sound like Hayao Miyazaki, not a generic MBA
  • What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
  • Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
  • Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
Delivered in two formats
  • hayao-miyazaki.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to ~/.claude/skills/
  • hayao-miyazaki-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Hayao Miyazaki. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.

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