Hibiki Yoshizaki
Hibiki Yoshizaki (吉崎 響, Yoshizaki Hibiki, born March 10, 1980) is a Japanese video artist, animation director and motion graphics designer. He also works as VJ Cotobuki with Naoki Nagayasu.
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Born | Tokyo, Japan | March 10, 1980
Occupation(s) | Video artist, animator, art director, director |
Known for | ME!ME!ME! GIRL Eve's Bouto (Mob) |
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Biography
Yoshizaki was born in Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 16, he was deeply impressed by Kōji Morimoto's MV "Extra" (music by Ken Ishii), which inspired him to work in animation. As a high school student, he started working in Gainax under guidance of Hiroyuki Yamaga. He then entered Tama Art University and started working as a VJ in nightclubs all around Tokyo while studying animation under Kōji Morimoto at Studio 4°C.[1] After graduation, he became a freelance motion graphics artist and art director, mainly for animated MV and PV. In 2011, for making Clammbon's Kanade Dance MV, he was selected as one of the top 100 video artists of the year on a magazine published by BNN Shinsha, Japan.[2] In 2013, he created the first original animated music video "ME!ME!ME!" in collaboration with TeddyLoid and Daoko. It was made as the 3rd episode of Japan Animator Expo project, which has going viral and achieved the highest number of views among all 36 episodes in the project. After working as a freelance art director for 18 years, he joined Khara in 2016.
Selected works
Television series
- AKB0048: Next Stage (2013; Opening director and storyboard artist)
- Macross Frontier (2008; motion graphics)
OVAs
- Macross Zero (2003-2004; CG)
- Gundam Evolve (2005; CG (episode 13))
- Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta (2013; opening director, storyboard artist, and motion graphics)
- Yozakura Quartet: Tsuki ni Naku (2013-2014; opening director and storyboard artist)
- Psycho-Pass 2 (2014; subtitle design)
Films
- Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012; Motion graphics director and design works)
- The Dragon Dentist (2017; Unit director and storyboard artist)
- Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021; Storyboard artist)
- Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation (2022; Eve's song Bouto (Mob) MV Director)
Music videos
- ME!ME!ME! by TeddyLoid feat. Daoko[3][4] (2014; director, unit director, editor, compositor, storyboard artist, visual effects, and original creator)
- ME!ME!ME! CHRONIC by Daoko feat. TeddyLoid (2015; director, storyboard artist, and original creator)
- GIRL by Daoko (2015; director, storyboard artist, and original creator)
- Sakura Nagashi by Hikaru Utada[5] (2016; director)
- The Asahi Shimbun by Motohiro Onishi (2016; director)
Other MV
- Believe by i-dep (2007; Director)
- Room #204 by Jazztronik (2009; Director)
- KANADE DANCE by Clammbon (2010; Director)
Video games
- Ace Combat Infinity (2013; Cinematics and motion graphics)
- Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (2019; Cinematics director)
Commercials
- HAL/ College of Technology & Design (2016, 2020; Director)
References
- "Hibiki.ne.jp". Archived from the original on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2014-11-26.
- "クラムボンMV『KANADE Dance』 | FEATURE | CGWORLD.jp". Archived from the original on 2014-11-26. Retrieved 2014-11-26.
- "Japan Anima(tor)'s Exhibition website offers new avenue for animation industry"
- "フィラリア予防薬通販|犬猫|犬糸状虫症|ぽちたま薬局".
- "Evangelion: 3.33 Music Video for Hikaru Utada's Song Features Unused Cuts". Anime News Network. September 18, 2016. Retrieved September 20, 2016.