#keiichiro kimura

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タイガーマスク Tiger Mask (1969) drawn by legendary animation director and character designer Keiichiro Kimura

Trivia: Born in 1938, Kimura was a construction site worker before becoming an animator.

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Si è spento Keiichiro Kimura

Se ne va uno degli storici animatori di Toei Animation.

Si è spento all’età di 80 anni, a causa di un infarto, l’animatore e character designer Keiichiro Kimura. Aveva iniziato la propria carriera, entrando nel 1961 a far parte dello staff di Toei Animation e lavorando principalmente come animatore o direttore delle animazioni. 

Fra i progetti più celebri citiamo “Cyborg 009″, “L'Uomo Tigre”, “UFO Diapolon, guerriero spaziale” e “Mr. Baseball”. Ha anche collaborato animando parti di “Kyashan Sins”, della prima stagione “Lupin III” e dei primi due film di “Berserk - L’Epoca D’Oro”.

Nel  2014 è stata lanciata una riuscita campagna di crowdfunding su Kickstarter per la produzione del cortometraggio “Go! Samurai”. Il figlio di Keiichiro, Takahiro Kimura, ha diretto e montato i circa 2000 frame disegnati a mano dal padre, dando vita alla sua idea.

A seguito della cerimonia funebre, Takahiro ha espresso oltre al cordoglio l’infinito rispetto per il lavoro del padre, affermando che quest’ultimo continuerà a vivere dentro di lui.

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Yo, you ever wonder why a lot of anime action looks like that?

You know, with the camera flying everywhere? Stuff weaving in and out of the foreground? Exaggerated perspective?

Yeah. Like that.

Well, that’s partially thanks to this guy:

Keiichiro Kimura.

This guy animated the openings to a whole bunch of old school TV anime in the late 60s and early 70s. Animators working on TV anime back then were frequently given very threadbare directions about how to interpret the storyboards they were given, and Kimura was one of the first animators in TV to take those threadbare boards and make them look as cool as possible in motion.

He did this by…well…doing all those things I just mentioned. He drew scenes with dynamic movement, getting the camera involved with the action. His drawings are rough and stylized. He exaggerates things when he thinks it’ll look cool to do so. He followed and intensified a style of animation in Japan which prioritizes cool motion that feels intuitive over meticulous, studied animation.

His way of doing things would inspire another guy named Yoshinori Kanada. Kanada would take his visual language and really run with it. It’s really Kanada who added in the missing pieces that gave us “the way lots of anime action looks,” which we call the “Kanada school.” However, the Kanada school is built on Kimura’s foundations – and what firm foundations they are.

Keiichiro Kimura died last Saturday, October 19th of a heart attack at age 80.

Remember him when you watch an action anime today.

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Taigā Masuku by Naoki Tsuji 1969