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Animation Director / Character Designer
Japan
Biography:
Yoichi Kotabe was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1936. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, Mr. Kotabe joined Toei Animation Studio in 1959. Mr. Kotabe played a main role in masterpieces of the studio like "Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon" (1963), "Puss 'n Boots" (1969) and more.
He left Toei Animation Studio and transferred to A Production with Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki. He was an animation director in "Panda! Go! Panda!" (1972) and "Red-Armored Suzunosuke" (1972). After that, he joined Zuiyo and then moved to Nippon Animation. With Takahata, Miyazaki and Okuyama, Mr. Kotabe worked as a character designer and an animation director of "Heidi" (1974) and "From Apennines to the Andes" (1976). He worked on "Taro the Dragon Boy" (1979) with Toei Animation Studio, "Chie the Brat" (1981) with Tokyo Movie, "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" (1984) and "The Grave of the Fireflies" (1988).
Since 1985, he had worked for Nintendo Co., Ltd. and joined the project of "Super Mario Brothers". He left
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Yōichi Kotabe
Japanese animator and character designer
Yōichi Kotabe (小田部 羊一, Kotabe Yōichi, born September 15, 1936)[3] is a Japanese animator and character designer. He has worked on several anime films from the 1960s and 1970s,[1] the Super Mario video game series, and the Pokémon series in television and film.[4] He was an employee at Nintendo for two decades doing illustrations, character designs, and supervision from 1985 to 2007.[5] After that, he began to work as a freelancer for the anime and video game industry, including for Nintendo again.
Biography
Kotabe became interested in animation after watching the short filmMomotarō no Umiwashi as a child. He was fascinated with how the fighter moved in the film. His father, who was an oil painter, also influenced his decision to work as an artist. Kotabe found oil painting to be difficult, so he instead worked in watercolor painting.
In order to continue working with watercolors, he adopted the nihonga, or Japanese-style, of painting, and began studying at th
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Yoichi Kotabe
| Yoichi Kotabe | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 15, 1936 (age 88)[?] |
| Super Mario–related role(s) | Illustrator for various 2D character artworks, animator |
- “When I first saw all the movements Mario was performing in Super Mario Bros., I thought that video games were now doing what the original animation industry was forgetting.”
- —Yoichi Kotabe, Iwata Asks
Yoichi Kotabe (小田部 羊一 Kotabe Yōichi) is a Japanese animation artist and former employee of Nintendo. Kotabe was the primary artist on the Super Mario franchise, drawing much of the 2D promotional artwork for the games and refining many of Shigeru Miyamoto's early sketches into the character's definitive designs. He also worked as an art supervisor on various Pokémon games.
Prior to joining Nintendo, Yochi Kotabe worked in the animation industry, primarily for Toei Animation where he was animator on productions such as Hols: Prince of the Sun, Panda! Go, Panda! and Heidi, Girl of the Alps. He left Nintendo in 2007 after 21 years, and is currently active as a freelan
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