YÅ ichi Kotabe Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

YÅ ichi Kotabe Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

YÅ ichi Kotabe (å° ç"°éƒ¨ 羊一, Kotabe YÅ ichi, born September 15,

1936), is a Japanese animator and character designer. He has worked on

several anime films from the 1960s and 1970s, on the Super Mario video

game series, and the Pokémon series in television and film. He was an

employee at Nintendo for two decades doing illustrations, character

designs, and supervision from 1985 to 2007. At that time, he began to

work as a freelancer for the anime and video game industry, including

for Nintendo again.Kotabe became interested in animation after

watching the short film MomotarÅ 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 in watercolors, he

adopted the nihonga, or Japanese†style, of painting, and began

studying at the Tokyo University of the Arts which had a

Japanese†style painting department. While attending, he was

impressed by the film The Tale of the White Serpent and the animator

Yasuji Mori, and immediately applied to work at Toei Animation.His

first project there was Hols: Prince of the Sun where he met Hayao

Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. He left Toei along with Miyazaki and

Takahata in order to work at A Pro, and they began work on an

adaptation of Pippi Longstocking. That project was eventually

canceled, and work began on the two-film series Panda! Go, Panda!.
YÅ ichi Kotabe Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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