Hiroyuki Imaishi

Hiroyuki Imaishi (Japanese今 石 洋 之, Imaishi Hiroyuki; born October 4, 1971 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese animator and anime director.

Career

Hiroyuki Imaishi studied at the School of Art Tama. After graduating, he began a job as an animator in animation studio Gainax, where he first worked in 1996 as an intermediate illustrator for the Neon Genesis Evangelion series.

Having previously only took over animation tasks, was conferred on him in 1997 for episode 19 of the series Kare Kano the script, continuity and the artistic director. He attracted great attention because it ( which was used in the other episodes) traditional animation replaced by cutout animation. For this purpose, he drew the characters in the manga style, this cut out and attached it to stick, with the animation it created that these were then moved with clearly visible baton against static backgrounds along. In FLCL from 2000, where he served in several episodes, especially episode 5, the animation director or assistant -, also find different character styles.

In 2004 he made ​​his debut as a director with the OVA Dead Leaves the animation studio Production IG In this work, therefore, finds his style, an unusual and Western-style drawing style with bold colors and action-packed sequences, which is why he (アニメ 界 の 暴れん坊, Anime -kai no Abarenbo ) is also referred to as the " enfant terrible of the anime world ".

At Gainax, he was the director of the first episode of the OVA Re in the same year: transferred Cutie Honey. In 2007 he held the Director of the 27- part TV series, Gurren Lagann, for which he was awarded the Animation Kobe Award, and the series received in addition to three other awards, the award for Outstanding Animated funded by the Japanese Cultural Office of the Japan Media Arts Festival. 2010 he directed Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, which also distinguished by an exceptional Anime animation in the style of American cartoons such as Powerpuff Girls and stylistically adjoins Dead Leaves.

In August 2011, he left with his colleague Masahiko Ōtsuka Gainax and founded his own studio trigger. In the first television series of the studio, Kill la Kill (2013 ), he also directs.