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Yoshitaka Amano is a Japanese visual artist, character designer, illustrator, scenic designer for theatre and film, and costume designer.
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Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝, Amano Yoshitaka; born March 26, 1952) is a Japanese visual artist, character designer, illustrator, scenic designer for theatre and film, and costume designer. He began his career in 1967 at Tatsunoko Production, working on anime such as Speed Racer, and later created characters for anime like Gatchaman, Tekkaman, Honeybee Hutch, and Casshern.
In 1982, he went independent and became a freelance artist, finding success as an illustrator for numerous authors and working on best-selling novel series, like The Guin Saga and Vampire Hunter D. He is also known for his commissioned illustrations for the Final Fantasy video game franchise.
Since the 1990s, Amano has created and exhibited paintings in galleries around the world, primarily using acrylic and automotive paint on aluminium box panels to depict his iconic retro pop icons. He is a five-time winner of the Seiun Award, and also won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, a collaboration with Neil Gaiman.
Amano's influences include early Western comic books, Orientalism, Art Nouveau, and Japanese woodblock prints. In early 2010, he established Studio Devaloka, a film production company.
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