Tetsuya Nishio

Personal Info

Known For Visual Effects

Gender Male

Birthday 1968-06-23 (56 years old)

Place of Birth Aichi, Japan

Also Known As 西尾 鉄也, 双堂健, Ken Soudou

Tetsuya Nishio

Biography

Tetsuya Nishio (西尾 鉄也, Nishio Tetsuya, born 23 June 1968 in Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese animator and character designer. He began his career in 1988 as an inbetween animator for the TV series Osomatsu-kun. He was affiliated with Studio Pierrot before joining Production I.G. He is considered one of the "Three Gods of IG" along with Hiroyuki Okiura and Kazuchika Kise and was rewarded the Best Character Design Award at the 8th Tokyo Anime Awards in 2009 for his outstanding work on Sky Crawlers, where he designed the characters and was key animation supervisor.

Known For

Visual Effects

2024
Kaiju No. 8

as Character Designer

2024
Kaiju No. 8

as Supervising Animation Director

2024
Kaiju No. 8

as Animation Director

2022
Naruto 20th Anniversary - Road of Naruto

as Supervising Animation Director

2022
Vampire in the Garden

as Character Designer

2022
Vampire in the Garden

as Supervising Animation Director

2022
Vampire in the Garden

as Key Animation

2022
Vampire in the Garden

as Animation Director

2022
Play It Cool, Guys

as Key Animation

2021
The Deer King

as Key Animation

2021
Star Wars: Visions

as Character Designer

2017
Napping Princess

as Key Animation

2017
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

as Character Designer

2017
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

as Animation Director

2017
2017
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

as Opening/Ending Animation

2017
Magical Circle Guruguru

as Key Animation

2016
2015
Boruto: Naruto the Movie

as Key Animation

2015
Boruto: Naruto the Movie

as Supervising Animation Director

2015
Boruto: Naruto the Movie

as Character Designer

2015
Boruto: Naruto the Movie

as Animation Director

2015
Miss Hokusai

as Key Animation

2015
Maria the Virgin Witch

as Animation Director

2015
Maria the Virgin Witch

as Key Animation

2014
The Last: Naruto the Movie

as Supervising Animation Director

2014
The Last: Naruto the Movie

as Animation Director

2014
The Last: Naruto the Movie

as Character Designer

2014
2014
Giovanni's Island

as Key Animation

2014
Haikyu!!

as Opening/Ending Animation

2012
Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie

as Character Designer

2012
Blood-C: The Last Dark

as Key Animation

2012
A Letter to Momo

as Key Animation

2011
2011
Legend of the Millennium Dragon

as Character Designer

2011
Usagi Drop

as Key Animation

2011
Blood-C

as Key Animation

2011
Penguindrum

as Key Animation

2010
Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower

as Opening/Ending Animation

2009
2009
Eden of the East

as Key Animation

2009
2008
Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds

as Character Designer

2008
The Sky Crawlers

as Character Designer

2008
The Sky Crawlers

as Key Animation

2008
The Sky Crawlers

as Animation Director

2008
Michiko & Hatchin

as Key Animation

2008
Real Drive

as Key Animation

2007
Naruto Shippuden the Movie

as Character Designer

2007
Naruto Shippūden

as Opening/Ending Animation

2007
Naruto Shippūden

as Supervising Animation Director

2007
Naruto Shippūden

as Key Animation

2007
Naruto Shippūden

as Character Designer

2006
Tales from Earthsea

as Key Animation

2005
Space Station No.9

as Key Animation

2005
Oval x Over

as Key Animation

2005
Karas

as Opening/Ending Animation

2004
2004
Steamboy

as Key Animation

2004
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

as Character Designer

2004
Paranoia Agent

as Key Animation

2002
Millennium Actress

as Key Animation

2002
The Cat Returns

as Key Animation

2002
2002
Naruto

as Opening/Ending Animation

2002
Naruto

as Character Designer

2002
2002
.hack//Liminality

as Key Animation

2001
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

as Opening/Ending Animation

2001
Medabots

as Key Animation

2000
Blood: The Last Vampire

as Key Animation

2000
FLCL

as Key Animation

1999
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

as Character Designer

1999
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

as Animation Director

1999
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

as Key Animation

1999
Great Teacher Onizuka

as Opening/Ending Animation

1996
1995
Ninku the Movie

as Animation Director

1995
Ninku

as Animation Director

1995
Ninku

as Opening/Ending Animation

1995
Ninku

as Key Animation

1995
Ninku

as Character Designer

1994
Ninku: Tomb of Knives

as Character Designer

1994
Ninku: Tomb of Knives

as Animation Director

1994
Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report

as Animation Director

1992
Yu Yu Hakusho

as Key Animation

Art

2017
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

as Title Illustration

2007
Naruto Shippuden the Movie

as Production Illustrator

2007
Naruto Shippūden

as Production Illustrator

Crew

2017
Sand Whale and Me

as Title Graphics

2004
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

as Supervising Animator