Which Studio Ghibli film was the studio’s first feature made entirely with computer-generated imagery?

Earwig and the Witch was Studio Ghibli’s first feature made entirely with computer-generated imagery.

Directed by Gorō Miyazaki, the film was produced as a 3D computer-animated feature rather than a traditionally hand-drawn production. It is based on Diana Wynne Jones’s 2011 children’s novel Earwig and the Witch, which follows an orphan who is taken in by a witch and becomes involved in a strange household.

The film was first broadcast on Japanese television in December 2020 before receiving a theatrical release in Japan in 2021. Its production marked a major stylistic departure for Studio Ghibli, whose international identity had been built largely on hand-drawn animation.

Earwig and the Witch is sometimes confused with The Red Turtle, which was a traditionally animated international co-production, or with My Neighbors the Yamadas, whose watercolor-like look came from digital tools but was not fully CGI. The distinction is the production method: Earwig was created as a complete 3D computer-animated feature.