Yoshitaka Amano

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Yoshitaka Amano (born March 26, 1952) is a Japanese artist, character designer, illustrator, and a theatre and film scenic designer and costume designer.

He first came to fame in the late 1960s when he was working on the anime version of Speed Racer.

Amano later became known and popular characters such as Gatchaman, Tekkaman: The Space Knight, Hutch the Honeybee, and Casshan.

He went solo and became a freelance illustrator, enjoyed success as an illustrator for many authors, and worked on best-selling book series, such as The Guin Saga and Vampire Hunter D. Amano has been creating and exhibiting paintings based on aluminium box panels, mainly in acrylic and automotive paint, mainly in Belgium.

He has been a 5-time winner of the Seiun Award, as well as the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for his relationship with Neil Gaiman, Sandman: The Dream Hunters.

Studio Devaloka, a film production company, was founded in early 2010.

Early fantasy works

Amano concentrated on illustrations for science fiction and fantasy books in the 1980s. This obsession, as well as his earlier involvement in animation, led to a personal style influenced by both modern survivalism and realism.

In 1982, he left Tatsunoko Production and began working as a freelancer. He did illustration and cover page layout of the Kimaira series, which was published by Baku Yumemakura, starting this year. He illustrated Demon City Shinjuku and the first in Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D novel series in 1983. He also worked as a character designer on the 1985 film adaptation of Vampire Hunter D, which was one of the first anime films to be released outside of Japan. In interviews, however, Amano has stated that he was not happy with the final product of the film.

In 1984, his illustrations were first published in collections such as Maten. Baku Yumemakura wrote Amon Saga, with him as the protagonist. A manga adaptation of Amon Saga was also released.

Amano first joined Square Enix (now Square Enix) in 1987 to work on a role-playing video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System: Final Fantasy. In both traditional and computer generated artwork, Amano produced experimental design pieces for the game. He has also worked for another video game firm, Kure Software Koubou, which also produced box cover illustrations and some character designs. This work included drawings for Kure's First Queen series. Following Final Fantasy VI in 1994, he resigned as the main character, image, and graphic designer of the series. He continued to produce promotional and character artwork for the following games as well as the creation of their title logos.

In 1996, Amano became the world's highest-earning artist, earning $40,000,000 (equivalent to $69,000,000 in 2021) that year from silk screen, lithographs, and engravings based on his book illustrations. Following the introduction of Final Fantasy VII in 1997, his work was first recognized around the world. Hironobu Sakaguchi, the former designer and producer of the Final Fantasy series, recruited Amano and composer Nobuo Uematsu to work on video games at Mistwalker in 2006.

At Compile Heart, Amano and Nobuo Uematsu worked together again on games like Fairy Fencer F.

In 1989 at Yurakucho Mullion in Tokyo, Japan, Amano's first exhibition, "Hiten," was held. He began working as an artist and set designer for stage performances in 1990. Tamasaburo Bando's Nayotake was his first theater performance.

He began receiving more attention outside of Japan in 1995 when he was active at the Biennale d'Orléans in France. The Angel Orensanz Foundation's 1999 exhibition "Think Like Amano" was among the exhibits that followed, including the 1999 "Hero" exhibit and the 1997 workshop and exhibition "Think Like Amano."

In 1998, Amano appeared in the New Rose Hotel, loosely based on William Gibson's brief biography of the same name.

Amano's The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, a 2000 edition of Neil Gaiman's book, received several accolades and was nominated for a Hugo Award. Greg Rucka and Amano co-authored Elektra and Wolverine, a 2001 comic book story. In another Vampire Hunter D film entitled Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, his character designs were used. Boom! introduced the first volume of his HERO series in 2006! Studios. He was the chief visual and costume designer for Baku Yumemakura's films, including Onmyoji, Onmyoji 2, and Taitei no Ken.

He illustrated three album covers for Galneryus: The Flag of Punishment (2003), Advance to the Fall (2005), and Beyond the End of Despair (2006).

For "The Return of the Thin White Duke," a part of which was published in Vogue, creative director GK Reid asked Amano to create illustrations in collaboration with author Neil Gaiman and starring David Bowie and Iman as sci-fi characters.

Amano produced an illustrated version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute, which was published in Radical Comics in 2008. He also worked with Christopher "mink" Morrison of Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart design group, producing illustrations for the novel Shinjuku and Shinjuku Azul, as well as a third unannounced sequel and an online game, Shinjuku Nexus. He was the character designer for the 2009 Jungle Emperor (Kimba the White Lion) TV special, produced by Goruchi Tanichi, to commemorate both Fuji Television's 50th anniversary and Osamu Tezuka's birth.

Amano had established Studio Devaloka, a film production company, and Zan will be the first in a small solo art exhibition tour, with more projects to be announced soon. The official website for the film, now called Deva Zan, was unveiled on December 15, 2010, as well as news regarding a pending press conference, which was scheduled on December 15, 2010. The nearly ten-minute conference revealed information about the scheme, including workers, as well as a brief trailer for the film, which stylistically mimics Amano's paintings.

Dark Horse Manga's illustrated novel version of the piece was announced in April 2012. The novel will be published in January 2013 and will feature over 240 original illustrations by Amano. Despite a predicted 2012 release date, Amano said in an October 2012 interview that the animation scheme was still in its inception and funding stages and may instead be realized as a television series. It was also mentioned that a video game adaptation was in development.

In 2013, Amano joined Japanese rock star Hyde (L'Arc-en-Ciel/VAMPS) on an art exhibition titled Destiny and Decay: Nippon Evolution.

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