Yukata Minowa -
Anime
Convention Personality of the Week - June 24, 2007
An
Asian poster for a popular anime series said "Vampire Hunter D vs.
Disney." It's likely that part of the reason the poster's designer made
that audacious comment was the character designs for the Vampire Hunter
D: Bloodlust film, created by artist Yukata Minowa. "You have to
simplify the designs," Minowa explained about his work. "When I
designed the characters for Yoshiaki Kawajiri (the film's director),
with Vampire Hunter D i was able to leave out some of the details. What
I did was to incorporate the sense of the original drawings (from
Yoshitaka Amano) into the line art, but there are nuances of the
original that can't be translated. The most important is whether the
character resembles the original design." Minowa also has created the
character designs for another popular series, Ninja Scroll. After high
school, Minowa joined a small Japanese studio, but found himself
"loaned out" to Madhouse, and it's for that major studio for which he's
done his most important work. For one of those shows, Highlander:
Search for Vengeance, Minowa was an animator, something that brought
him into the growing convergence of Japanese and American animation. "I
like American comics, and I'd like to try drawing in that style - I've
been influenced by the other side."
An
Asian poster for a popular anime series said "Vampire Hunter D vs.
Disney." It's likely that part of the reason the poster's designer made
that audacious comment was the character designs for the Vampire Hunter
D: Bloodlust film, created by artist Yukata Minowa. "You have to
simplify the designs," Minowa explained about his work. "When I
designed the characters for Yoshiaki Kawajiri (the film's director),
with Vampire Hunter D i was able to leave out some of the details. What
I did was to incorporate the sense of the original drawings (from
Yoshitaka Amano) into the line art, but there are nuances of the
original that can't be translated. The most important is whether the
character resembles the original design." Minowa also has created the
character designs for another popular series, Ninja Scroll. After high
school, Minowa joined a small Japanese studio, but found himself
"loaned out" to Madhouse, and it's for that major studio for which he's
done his most important work. For one of those shows, Highlander:
Search for Vengeance, Minowa was an animator, something that brought
him into the growing convergence of Japanese and American animation. "I
like American comics, and I'd like to try drawing in that style - I've
been influenced by the other side."