Directing
Hiroyuki Imaishi
JA cinema · 25 credits
Born
4 October 1971 (age 55)
Also known as 今石 洋之
Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石 洋之, born October 4, 1971) is a Japanese key animator and anime/anime influenced animation director and one of the co-founders of Trigger. His style is marked by fast and frantic animation combined with elaborate storyboarding and punchy direction. Prior to founding Trigger, he was an animator and director at Gainax. His series director debut was Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (2007). The anime received an Excellence Prize at the 2007 Japan Media Arts Festival, and Imaishi himself received an individual award at the twelfth Animation Kobe Festival. In 2008, the anime received both "best television production" and "best character design" from the Tokyo International Anime Fair. Later he went on to work as director in the 2010 anime series, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. His main influence of being an animator and director are Yoshinori Kanada and his works, in which all his anime titles such as Dead Leaves, Gurren Lagann and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt pay special tributes to him and his art. In 2011, Imaishi branched off Gainax to form a new studio, Trigger, alongside Masahiko Ohtsuka and others. His first directorial work at the studio is Kill la Kill. Source: Wikipedia
Known for
Filmography
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
Key Animation
Promare / Side: Galo
Art Direction, Director, Key Animation
Promare / Side: Lio
Art Direction
Promare
Key Animation, Art Designer, Storyboard Artist, Director, Art Direction
Sex & Violence with Machspeed
Director, Key Animation
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
Key Animation
Shoka
Key Animation
Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation Director, Key Animation
Redline
Key Animation
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
Storyboard Artist
Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End
Storyboard Artist, Animation Director, Key Animation, Director
Oval x Over
Storyboard Artist, Director, Animation Director
Dead Leaves
Director, Storyboard Artist, Character Designer, Animation Director, Key Animation
Animation Store Manager
Director, Character Designer, Art Direction, Screenplay
Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection
Key Animation
Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis
Key Animation
Lupin the Third: Island of Assassins
Key Animation