Thursday 31 January 2008

Tatsuyuki Tanaka


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A genius artist who is actively involved as an animator, illustrator and manga artist. With his ingenious drawings and the unique worlds that he creates, Tanaka receives immense support from his enthusiastic fans from the younger generation. Workingmostly with Studio4C, as an image creator, he has worked with Koji Morimoto on the storyboard and key animation for the film [ETERNAL FAMILY]. He has also worked on the choreography for [NIKE] commercials and for the Mobile phone movie "FLUXIMATION". In the year 2006 he worked on his first all original, self-directed story [Tounin Kit] for the omnibus, [GENIUS PARTY]


Tanaka was born in 1965 in Fukushima Prefecture. Since high school he has been actively pursuing his interests in manga and he joined Telecom Animation Film when was 18. After working as an animation editor, he soon left the company, and worked as a freelance key animator for [AKIRA]. From then on, he made a name for himself as a talented animator, leaving behind numerous works of strong impact. He was also in charge of the image board for [Fushingi no Umi no Nadia], and created a name for himself with the unqie world he paints. He then furthered developed his talent through game productions and magazine artwork. Currently, he is working on a hand drawn manga titled [BOILED HEAD].


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I must say that I just adore the artwork!
Just saw it on goole (lol?)
And I practically fell in love with the way of drawing!

Anonymous said...

I found him on stumbleupon.
I love his work.
It's inspiring
You can see a story behind the work...