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Koki Endo is a Technical Artist / CG Generalist at QREAZY Inc. After studying computer graphics at a vocational school, he joined QREAZY Inc. in 2020. As a technical artist and generalist, he is responsible for a wide range of CG production processes, including modeling, animation, simulation, effects, lighting, compositing, and rendering. Selected Works: Wave!!: Surfing Yappe!!(TV Series 2021-) CG …
Young Jae Lee is the general director of QREAZY Co., Ltd. He was born in South Korea. He studied stage art at a university in South Korea and CG at a vocational school in Japan before joining QREAZY in 2010. Since then, he has participated in numerous anime and game productions as a CG artist and director. Anime works he …
Akira Yoshiyasu is a representative director of QREAZY Co., Ltd. He started producing CG for anime and games in 1998 and has been active as a CG director since around 2003. He has served as a 3DCG director for anime works like One Piece: The Cursed Holy Sword, Air: The Movie, Zatch Bell! Attack of Mechavulcan, Wave!! Surfing Yappe!!, and …
Genga-chan as she’s known, is the very first key animator that is training through the Animator Supporters New Animator Training Program. If you’re interested in her training progress, you can view it through our videos on the Animator Dormitory YouTube channel. At the convention, Genga-chan will go over some of the layouts that she’s drawn for the Animator Supporters project.
Don McLaughlin is a semi-retired faculty member of West Virginia University. During his more than forty years at West Virginia University he has served as a teacher, administrator, computer systems manager, and leader in the virtual environments lab in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He currently teaches courses in artificial intelligence and computer graphics. In the …
Pamela D. Winfield is Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Elon University in NC. She is the author of Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kūkai and Dōgen on the Art of Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 2013) which won the AAS-SEC Book Prize in 2015. She is also the co-editor (with Steven Heine) of Zen …
Hiroaki Kawakami and Hitomi Uehara are attorneys who have worked together for 10 years. They are attorneys for the elderly with dementia, helping to manage property and proceed with contracts under family court supervision. They are also solicitors who work with inheritance and the drafting of wills. Kawakami is the president (since 2010) and Uehara is the vice president of …
Kaizan Nitta was born on Okinoerabu Island, a remote island which is part of Kagoshima’s Amami archipelago. Just north of Okinawa, Okinoerabu is rooted in the Okinawan culture along with that of the other Ryukyu Islands. Here he learned to play the sanshin, a stringed instrument local to the Okinawan and Amami islands, from Tomiyasu Okita. In 2000, Kaizan became …
Since 2007, Hakusui Ogiyama has been studying Kinshin-ryu Satsuma Biwa under Osaka-based Kinshin-ryu biwa player Teisui Nakano. Hakusui specializes in the heroic performance and narration of the Satsuma Biwa, which draws on Samurai traditions. In addition to traditional classical music, she also uses modern Japanese to tell all kinds of new stories. This is called “Otogi Biwa,”which she uses to …
Meet Jun Sugawara from Animator Supporters, a Tokyo-based non-profit founded in 2010 to give a leg up to new, underpaid talent in the anime scene. Sugawara kicked things off with the New Animator Grand Prix in 2011, a contest that spots fresh talent and helps them out with housing costs. By 2014, he opened the doors to the first Animator …
