Curated playlist
Japanese video game artists
- Masahiro ItoMasahiro Ito designed both the world and the monsters of the first Silent Hill.
- Akihiko YoshidaVaan in Final Fantasy XII was first drawn as rugged and tough. The team later made him younger and thinner.
- Hiroshi MinagawaHiroshi Minagawa goes by the nickname Nigoro, and his name sits in the credits of some of the most admired role-playing games to come out of Japan. He is an artist, a designer, and a director. His earliest credit in the list of his works…
- Keiichiro ToyamaKeiichiro Toyama went from Silent Hill horror to Gravity Rush, where the heroine changes which way is down.
- Akira ToriyamaAkira Toriyama, the Japanese manga artist behind Dragon Ball, made his final contribution to that story by changing one drawing. In chapter 103 of Dragon Ball Super, the warrior Piccolo is shown departing. Toriyama instructed his…
- Shigeru MiyamotoDonkey Kong began as a way to use up unsold arcade machines.
- Yoji ShinkawaJapanese artist and illustrator
- Kazuko ShibuyaKazuko Shibuya drew the characters, monsters and menus for the first Final Fantasy.
- Tetsuya NomuraTetsuya Nomura started at Square as a debugger, not a designer. A hand-drawn plan book later got him noticed.
- Yoshitaka AmanoIn 1996, artist Yoshitaka Amano became the world's highest-earning artist.