Toshihiko Masuda

Personal Info

Know For

Visual Effects

Gender

Male

Birthday

1960-04-14 (65 years old)

Place of Birth

-

Toshihiko Masuda

Biography

Born in 1960, Toshihiko Masuda was one of the major directors at Telecom Animation Film. He joined Telecom in 1980 as a in-between animator and became a director in 1983, taking over Hayao Miyazaki's unit after he left to go work at Topcraft to do Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Masuda is known for his wacky and fluid animation, and is the one who set the style in Telecom's western productions in the '80s and '90s. He now works as a freelance animator and storyboard artist working on a plethora of different anime projects.

Production

1990

Uncle Remodelling Course

as Key Animation

2022

Inu-Oh

as Animation Director

2010

2012

2007

1988

Akira

as Key Animation

2007

Summer Days with Coo

as Key Animation

2019

2021

Hula Fulla Dance

as Key Animation

2005

Space Station No.9

as Key Animation

2004

Howl's Moving Castle

as Key Animation

2007

The Piano Forest

as Storyboard Artist

2017

2017

Napping Princess

as Key Animation

2006

Tales from Earthsea

as Key Animation

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