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Allen Hastings and Nobuyuki Ohnishi at Ohnishi's Art
Exhibition
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AX95 Guests of Honor
Noburo Ishiguro
As President of Artland, Mr. Ishiguro has been instrumental in the production and direction of many anime classics such as Tetsuwan Atom (color version), Space Cruiser Yamato (Star Blazers), Megazone 23, Super-Dimensional Fortress Macross, Legend of Galactic
Heroes, and much more. Throughout his extensive career, he has worked with and taught some of the industry's most talented and highly regarded people such as Haruhiko Mikimoto, Nobeteru Yuuki, and Toshihiro Hirano. Mr. Ishiguro also teaches animation at the Yoyogi Institute of Animation.
Haruhiko Mikimoto
One of the most sought-after character designers and illustrators in Japan, his popular character works can be found in Super-Dimensional Fortress Macross TV series, Macross the Movie, Macross 2012 Flashback, Super-Dimensional Century Orguss TV series, Orguss-02 OAV series, Macross II OAV series, Gunbuster OAV series, Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 OAV series, and creations of Eve for Megazone 23 OAV series. His character designs have also appeared in numerous video games, most notably Quo Vadis for Sega Saturn, as well as illustrations and comics in Dragon Magazine and Newtype.
His most recent projects were the creation of Marionette Generation,
serialized in Newtype, and his own gallery of anime/illustration works
published in a popular book entitled Haruhiko Mikomoto Illustrations
published by U.S. Renditions and Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc.
Nobuyuki Ohnishi
Appeared courtesy of Manga Entertainment and best known to anime fans for the illustrations used in Wings of Honneamise, he has worked on paintings for the french movies La Fruits De La Passion and Saraba Hakobune. In 1980, his works appeared in the US at Steve Remington's Gallery and a collection of his lithographs can be found in a book titled "Memories" published in 1992 by Yasuyoshi Yamaguchi. Onishi also brought with him an exclusive exhibition of his works to be shown at AX95.
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Koichi Ohata
Well-known mecha designer, Mr. Ohata has worked on anime shows such as Gunbuster, Borgman, Tobikage, Glavion, Babel the 2nd, Dangaio 2-3, Macross II, MD Geist, Hagane no Oni, Cyguard, Patlabor OAV series, Char's Counterattack, Albegas TV series, Laserion TV series, Gallat TV series, NG Knight Lamune & 40 TV series, and the Genocyber OAV series.
Ryoei Tsukimura
Appeared courtesy of Pioneer LDCA, Inc., Mr. Tsukimura is a scriptwriter who graduated from Waseda University and is a member of the Japan Scriptwriter Association and Japan Broadcasting Scriptwriter Association. His written works have been used in Mister Ajikko, Tenchi Muyou!, El Hazard, Moldiver, Blue Seed, Tetsujin 28, and Super Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku.
Satoshi Urushibara
Appeared courtesy of A.D. Vision, Mr. Urushibara was character designer and production supervisor for Plastic Little, Wings of Darkness Balkisas, Raven Tengu Kabuto, and the second Konai Shasei videos. He has served as character designer on the Konai Shasei Final and Legend of Lemnear movie. As chief production supervisor and guest character designer, he has worked on Bubblegum Crisis 7: Double Vision and Hurricane Live 2033 videos. Other shows he has worked on were Crying Freeman, Record of Lodoss Wars, and Five Star Stories. Manga works he has worked on were Plastic Little and Legend of Lemnear.
Kinji Yoshimoto
Appeared courtesy of A.D. Vision, Mr. Yoshimoto has held various positions within the anime industry working on such titles as animator for Super-Dimnesional Fortress Macross TV series, production supervisor for Bubblegum Crisis 7 and Crying Freeman 4, character designs for La Blue Girl, storyboards for Macross II, production for Plastic Little, Megazone 23 OAV series, Wings of Honneamise, Gunbuster, Ryoujin Z, and Riding Bean.
Scott Frazier
Mr. Frazier is the first foreigner to be involved in the high levels of production of anime in Japan, among those being teaching, director's assistant, and establishing many animation studios, notably Kitty Animation Studio and TAO Studios in Bangkok. List of credits include working on Bubblegum Crash!, Shurato, Starship Troopers, Orange Road TV series, and Patlabor TV series.
Allen Hastings
A huge anime fan himself, Mr. Hastings is the creator of the groundbreaking Lightwave 3D modeling software tool used to pioneer 3D rendering for special effects used in Unsolved Mysteries, FreeJack, Star Trek VI, Viper TV series, Robocop TV series, SeaQuest DSV TV series, Jurassic Park animated storyboards, Hercules TV series, and most notably the Babylon 5 TV series. He has won an Emmy Award in 1993 for his development of the Video Toaster systems by NewTek Inc.
Kazuhiko Ikeguchi
Appeared courtesy of A.D. Vision, he has worked in production for Youma, Cleopatra D.C., Miroku, A.R.I.E.L., Madara, Tokyo Babylon 1-2, Super Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku, Debut, Graduation, Compiler, Plastic Little, Goddess Paradise, and Clamp's X and Muyuki-chan in Wonderland.
Leo Hourvitz
Director of Multimedia Tools at Pixar, Mr. Hourvitz is well-known for his work on the tools for animation and programming at Broderbund Software, publishers of
Myst.
Additional attending celebrities for AX95
Amy Chia
Hong Kong actress Ms. Chia appeared in several films, commercials, and magazines in such countries as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China.
Jay Miao
Pop star and actor in both the U.S. and Asia, Mr. Miao has appeared in numerous films, TV shows, and commercials around the world for such sponsors like Asahi,
Duskin, Nissan, Yamaha, McDonald's, Disney, and much more.
Danger Productions
With one of its premieres Made in Japan II showing at AX95, Danger Production's credits included ABC's stop-motion animation cartoon Bump in the Night and Clay Fighter I-III. |
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