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Watch anohana Character Designer Draw in Wacom's Live Painting Video
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Wacom, a company that makes digital drawing tablets, has added a new video with animator and character designer Masayoshi Tanaka to its "Drawing with Wacom" series on Monday. The video features Tanaka using the Cintiq 24HD touch tablet.
Tanaka served as both character designer and chief animation director for the anohana (TV series and film), Toradora!, Highschool of the Dead (TV series and OVA), and Waiting in the Summer anime series. He has also served as a key animator for the A Certain Scientific Railgun, Sword Art Online, Eureka Seven, Gurren Lagann, and Mushi-Shi anime. Tanaka is currently also serving as illustrator for Raku Kusanagi's Dead End Rhapsody light novel series.
The other artists in the series include Vocaloid artist Yori, Haruhi Suzumiya and Shana illustrator Noizi Ito, So-Ra-No-Wo-To and Hana-Saku Iroha character designer Mel Kishida, character designer Kei (Hatsune Miku and other Vocaloid2 characters), illustrator Ukke (Crosslight CD), designer toi8 (Le Chevalier D'Eon), illustrator redjuice (supercell's "World is Mine" music video), illustrator Akatsuki Katō (Psychic Detective Yakumo novels), animator Ryousuke Sawa (a.k.a. "Ryōchimo"; key animator, Evangelion 1.0; character designer, Birdy the Mighty: Decode), illustrator Teruhiko Imaizumi (Hanamaru Kindergarten), character designer Hidari (Natsu-iro Kiseki, Fractale), manga creator Shiro (Yama no Susume), and Jashin Ōnuma/Nareru! SE illustrator Ixy.