

Two titles were originally considered for the film.

Most of the film is colored with traditional paint, based on the color schemes designed by Miyazaki and Michiyo Yasuda. A further 10 minutes uses inked-and-painted, a technique used in all subsequent Studio Ghibli films. The computer animated parts are designed to blend in and support the traditional cel animation, and are mainly used in images consisting of a mixture of computer generated graphics and traditional drawing. The movie was mostly hand-drawn, but incorporates some use of computer animation in approximately ten percent of the film. Princess Mononoke is an animation movie produced by Studio Ghibli and directed by Hayao Miyazaki in 1997. In the late 1970s, Miyazaki drew sketches of a film about a princess living in the woods with a beast, but he began writing the film's plot line and drew the initial storyboards for the film only in August 1994.
