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Yoshitaka Amano is a Japanese visual artist, character designer, illustrator, and scenic and costume designer born in 1952. He is best known for designing characters for anime series such as Gatchaman and Tekkaman, illustrating the Vampire Hunter D and Guin Saga novel series, and creating artwork for the Final Fantasy video game franchise.
Amano joined Square in 1987 to work on the original Final Fantasy game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. He served as character designer, title logo designer, and graphic designer through Final Fantasy VI in 1994, then continued providing promotional artwork and logo design for later entries in the series.
Amano is a five-time winner of the Seiun Award and won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for his collaboration with Neil Gaiman on Sandman: The Dream Hunters. That same work was also nominated for a Hugo Award.
Amano's influences include early Western comic books, particularly the work of Neal Adams, as well as American Pop art including the work of Peter Max, Art Nouveau, the Russian orientalists Leon Bakst and Ivan Bilibin, and the ancient Japanese woodblock print tradition of Ukiyo-e.
Amano became the world's highest-earning artist in 1996, with his earnings that year coming from sales of silk screens, lithographs, and etchings based on his book illustrations.
Studio Devaloka is a film production company founded by Amano in early 2010. It was set up to develop a 3D anime project titled Deva Zan, with its official website and a short trailer launched on the 15th of December 2010.