Hiroyuki Imaishi
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 4, 1971
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
Filmography
Untitled Hiroyuki Imaishi/Kazuki Nakashima Project TBA
Director
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time 2021
Key Animation
Promare / Side: Galo 2019
Art Direction, Director, Key Animation
Promare / Side: Lio 2019
Art Direction
Promare 2019
Key Animation, Art Designer, Storyboard Artist, Director, Art Direction
Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade 2015
Key Animation
Sex & Violence with Machspeed 2015
Director, Key Animation
The Making of Kill la Kill: 500 Days of Total Coverage 2014
as (Self)
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo 2012
Key Animation
Shoka 2010
Key Animation
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva 2009
Storyboard Artist
Redline 2009
Key Animation
Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars 2009
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation Director, Key Animation
Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End 2008
Key Animation, Storyboard Artist, Animation Director, Director
Gunbuster vs Diebuster: Aim for the Top! The GATTAI!! Movie 2006
Key Animation
Oval x Over 2005
Storyboard Artist, Director, Animation Director
One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island 2005
Key Animation
Dead Leaves 2004
Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation Director, Character Designer, Key Animation
Lupin the Third: Operation: Return the Treasure 2003
Key Animation
Animation Store Manager 2002
Director, Character Designer, Art Direction, Screenplay
Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection 2001
Key Animation
Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis 1998
Key Animation
Lupin the Third: Island of Assassins 1997
Key Animation
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 1997
Key Animation
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth 1997
Key Animation
Credits from TMDB.