Hiroyuki Imaishi

Hiroyuki Imaishi - Key Animation, Director, Animation Director, Storyboard Artist, Art Direction, Art Designer, Character Designer known for his work in such projectsAdvice for working with the Map of emotions: «Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion» (1997), «Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time» (2021), «Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars» (2009), «Gurren Lagann the Movie: Childhood's End» (2008), «Redline» (2010),

Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石 洋之, born October 4, 1971) is a Japanese key animator and anime/anime influenced animation director and one of the co-founders of Trigger. His style is marked by fast and frantic animation combined with elaborate storyboarding and punchy direction. Prior to founding Trigger, he was an animator and director at Gainax.

His series director debut was Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (2007). The anime received an Excellence Prize at the 2007 Japan Media Arts Festival, and Imaishi himself received an individual award at the twelfth Animation Kobe Festival. In 2008, the anime received both "best television production" and "best character design" from the Tokyo International Anime Fair. Later he went on to work as director in the 2010 anime series, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. His main influence of being an animator and director are Yoshinori Kanada and his works, in which all his anime titles such as Dead Leaves, Gurren Lagann and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt pay special tributes to him and his art.

In 2011, Imaishi branched off Gainax to form a new studio, Trigger, alongside Masahiko Ohtsuka and others. His first directorial work at the studio is Kill la Kill.

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