Hiroyuki Imaishi
- Directing
- October 4, 1971
Biography
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. Source: Wikipedia
Known for
Filmography
- New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT · Series Director, Series Composition
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners · Opening/Ending Animation, Storyboard Artist
- THE ANIME STUDIO · Self
- Star Wars: Visions · Storyboard Artist, Director
- Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time · Key Animation
- BNA · Action Director, Key Animation
- Promare / Side: Galo · Art Direction, Director
- Promare / Side: Lio · Art Direction
- Promare · Key Animation, Art Designer
- DARLING in the FRANXX · Action Director
- Little Witch Academia · Key Animation, Storyboard Artist
- Space Patrol Luluco · Series Composition, Original Concept
- Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade · Key Animation
- Ninja Slayer From Animation · Character Designer
- Sex & Violence with Machspeed · Director, Key Animation
- Japan Animator Expo · Director, Storyboard Artist
- The Making of Kill la Kill: 500 Days of Total Coverage · (Self)
- Kill la Kill · Series Director, Key Animation
- Inferno Cop · Series Director
- Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo · Key Animation
- Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine · Key Animation
- THE iDOLM@STER · Storyboard Artist
- Star Driver · Key Animation
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Shoka · Key Animation
- Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva · Storyboard Artist
- Redline · Key Animation
- Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End · Storyboard Artist, Animation Director
- Rosario + Vampire · Key Animation
- Gurren Lagann · Director, Series Director
- Gunbuster vs Diebuster: Aim for the Top! The GATTAI!! Movie · Key Animation
- Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu · Key Animation
- Oval x Over · Storyboard Artist, Director
- One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island · Key Animation
- Re: Cutie Honey · Director, Opening Title Sequence
- This Ugly Yet Beautiful World · Key Animation
- Dead Leaves · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Fullmetal Alchemist · Key Animation
- Lupin the Third: Operation: Return the Treasure · Key Animation
- Animation Store Manager · Director, Character Designer
- Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi · Storyboard Artist, Director
- Trava: Fist Planet · Key Animation
- Mahoromatic · Key Animation
- Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection · Key Animation
- PaRappa the Rapper · Director
- FLCL · Art Designer, Storyboard Artist
- Medabots · Key Animation, Storyboard
- Microman · Key Animation
- Popolocrois Monogatari · Key Animation
- His and Her Circumstances · Writer, Storyboard Artist
- Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis · Key Animation
- Virus Buster Serge · Key Animation
- Lupin the Third: Island of Assassins · Key Animation
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion · Key Animation
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth · Key Animation
- Neon Genesis Evangelion · Key Animation
- Gunbuster · Key Animation
- Untitled Hiroyuki Imaishi/Kazuki Nakashima Project · Director