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Animator Yoshinori Kanada Reportedly Passes Away (Updated)
posted on by Egan Loo
The animators' resource site Anido reports that animator Yoshinori Kanada died of a heart attack. He was 57. Kanada's career extended from the Galaxy Express 999 and Toward the Terra science-fiction classics of the 1970s and 1980s, to the later robot anime titles and eventually the anime films of Studio Ghibli. Members of his profession considered him a "super animator" representing Japan. The animation styles he developed would influence many animators who still work to this day. The following is a partial list of his credits:
2001 Ya Monogatari (OAV) : Storyboard
Birth (OAV) : Character Design , Animation director , Main Animator
Castle in the Sky (movie) : Key Animation Supervisor
The Chocolate Panic Picture Show (OAV) : Storyboard
Cutey Honey (TV) : Animation
Dororon Enma-kun (TV) : Key Animation
Down Load - Namiamidabutsu wa Ai no Uta (OAV) : Character Design , Key Animation
Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (OAV) : Key Animation (ep. 4)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (US CG movie) : Layout Artist
Final Yamato (movie) : Animation director
Fushigi Yuugi (TV) : Animation (OP)
Gakuen Tokusō Hikaruon (OAV) : Key Animation
Galaxy Express 999 (movie) : Animation
Genesis Climber Mospeada (TV) : Opening Sequence Animation
Getter Robo G (TV) : Animation
Kiki's Delivery Service (movie) : Key Animation
Kujira no Josephina (TV) : Storyboard , Key Animation
Mū no Hakugei (TV) : Mecha Adjustment
My Neighbor Totoro (movie) : Original Art
The Phoenix: Chapter of Ho-o (movie) : Key Animation
Plawres Sanshiro (TV) : Storyboard , Key Animation
Porco Rosso (movie) : Key Animation
Princess Mononoke (movie) : Key Animation
Queen Millennia (TV) : Mechanical design
Sailor Moon Super S (TV) : Animation
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (TV) : Key Animation
Talking Head (hybrid movie) : Key Animation
Tottemo! Luckyman (TV) : Character Design , Opening Animation
Toward the Terra (movie) : Key Animation
Update: More background information added from animeanime.jp.
2001 Ya Monogatari (OAV) : Storyboard
Birth (OAV) : Character Design , Animation director , Main Animator
Castle in the Sky (movie) : Key Animation Supervisor
The Chocolate Panic Picture Show (OAV) : Storyboard
Cutey Honey (TV) : Animation
Dororon Enma-kun (TV) : Key Animation
Down Load - Namiamidabutsu wa Ai no Uta (OAV) : Character Design , Key Animation
Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (OAV) : Key Animation (ep. 4)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (US CG movie) : Layout Artist
Final Yamato (movie) : Animation director
Fushigi Yuugi (TV) : Animation (OP)
Gakuen Tokusō Hikaruon (OAV) : Key Animation
Galaxy Express 999 (movie) : Animation
Genesis Climber Mospeada (TV) : Opening Sequence Animation
Getter Robo G (TV) : Animation
Kiki's Delivery Service (movie) : Key Animation
Kujira no Josephina (TV) : Storyboard , Key Animation
Mū no Hakugei (TV) : Mecha Adjustment
My Neighbor Totoro (movie) : Original Art
The Phoenix: Chapter of Ho-o (movie) : Key Animation
Plawres Sanshiro (TV) : Storyboard , Key Animation
Porco Rosso (movie) : Key Animation
Princess Mononoke (movie) : Key Animation
Queen Millennia (TV) : Mechanical design
Sailor Moon Super S (TV) : Animation
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (TV) : Key Animation
Talking Head (hybrid movie) : Key Animation
Tottemo! Luckyman (TV) : Character Design , Opening Animation
Toward the Terra (movie) : Key Animation
Update: More background information added from animeanime.jp.
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