Hisashi Abe -
Anime
Convention Personality of the Week - September 23, 2007
Hisashi Abe has been a
successful animation director and character designer. He's worked on
projects ranging from the Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust film to one of
the Card Captor Sakura movies. "It's been only five years since we
started doing the cute children's' works," Abe noted at Anime Expo in
2001. "Before that, we were doing the more stylized animation. I
enjoy doing a wide variety of animation, and my art skills have
improved." His big project since then has been the anime Devil May Cry
series, where he was the animation director and character designer.
He's also worked on the Metropolis movie based on the works of Osamu
Tezuka, the Chobits and Gunslinger Girl series, and was part of the
production crew on Devil Hunter Yohko, one of the first commercial
anime anime success in the U.S. from the era of VHS tapes. There's an
old movie cliche about all actors wanting to direct, and that might be
true of animators as well. In 2001, Abe said he had developed some
ideas in his career, and he would like to turn them into a film that he
would direct. "It would be hard to do this by myself because animation
is not done by one person," said Abe. "One day I want to direct and I'm
certain one day I will have a chance. There's no specific genre I want
to do."
Hisashi Abe has been a
successful animation director and character designer. He's worked on
projects ranging from the Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust film to one of
the Card Captor Sakura movies. "It's been only five years since we
started doing the cute children's' works," Abe noted at Anime Expo in
2001. "Before that, we were doing the more stylized animation. I
enjoy doing a wide variety of animation, and my art skills have
improved." His big project since then has been the anime Devil May Cry
series, where he was the animation director and character designer.
He's also worked on the Metropolis movie based on the works of Osamu
Tezuka, the Chobits and Gunslinger Girl series, and was part of the
production crew on Devil Hunter Yohko, one of the first commercial
anime anime success in the U.S. from the era of VHS tapes. There's an
old movie cliche about all actors wanting to direct, and that might be
true of animators as well. In 2001, Abe said he had developed some
ideas in his career, and he would like to turn them into a film that he
would direct. "It would be hard to do this by myself because animation
is not done by one person," said Abe. "One day I want to direct and I'm
certain one day I will have a chance. There's no specific genre I want
to do."