Yoshitaka Amano
Yoshitaka Amano
Biography
Yoshitaka Amano is a Japanese artist, character designer, illustrator and a theater and film scenic designer and costume designer. He first came into prominence in the late 1960s working on the anime adaptation of Speed Racer. Amano later became the creator of iconic and influential characters such as Gatchaman, Tekkaman: The Space Knight, Hutch the Honeybee and Casshan. In 1982 he went independent and became a freelance artist, finding success as an illustrator for numerous authors, and worked on best-selling novel series, such as The Guin Saga and Vampire Hunter D. He is also known for his commissioned illustrations for the popular video-game franchise Final Fantasy.
Known For
Visual Effects
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as Character Designer
as Animation
as Character Designer
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as Character Designer
as Character Designer
as Character Designer
as Character Designer
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as Character Designer
as Character Designer
as Character Designer
as Character Designer
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as Character Designer
as Visual Effects
Art
as Art Direction
as Conceptual Design
as Art Direction
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as Production Design
Writer
as Writer
as Writer
as Storyboard
as Comic Book
as Story
as Original Film Writer
Director
as Director
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as Director
Actor
as Self - Illustrator and Character Designer
as Self - Artist
as Self
as Narrator
as Hiroshi
Crew
as Creator