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Is the lower panel from the students presentation of that weird, AI driven body movement animation? I appreciate the reverence but also wonder how many people will recognize it.
I just looked that up, and I feel sorry for those students. I'm imagining they were trying to make an AI that does realistic movement like that Google experiment, and when it failed and ended up weird, they thought they were gonna fail their assignment, until one of them thought "we can call this zombie movement and still get a pass."
Then they show up to present it and this guy says not that it's trash, but that it's offensive because he has a disabled friend. You can see the sorrow on the presenter's face. I'm not sure he had any way of knowing that the guy would react that way. Who looks at creepy horror movement and thinks "this is offensive to disabled people"?
They didn't just fail, they got dishonored, and I'm not sure that was justified, though I don't know the whole context.
Agreed, I remember feeling really sorry for the students, who were so proud to be allowed to present their project to the master, just to be murdered by him in front of the class. That behavior is not acceptable, especially not from a teacher/master. I felt embarrassed myself, just from watching the video. On the other hand, Miyazaki is known for very aesthetic, classic, hand made animation, so it is not that surprising he disliked the weird, AI generated demo they showed him. Also, as he said in the video, he has a friend who is physically disadvantaged and the demo reminded him of his suffering friend. Probably he acted in an oversensitive/irrational way because of this.
Also he's Japanese.