Atsushi Nishigori

錦織敦史, 錦織敦志
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Birth:Sep 14, 1978
Age:45
Gender:Male
Years active:1999-Present
Hometown:Tottori Prefecture, Japan
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/i/user/1515331173983330306 Nishigori graduated from the Toei Animation Institute and joined Gainaxhttps://anilist.co/studio/6/ as an inbetweener but he rapidly distinguished himself as a key animator. He was insipred to enter the field because he liked Hidenori Matsubarahttps://anilist.co/staff/107672/ and Takeshi Hondahttps://anilist.co/staff/103303/s drawings. His first major role was serving as character animation director for Top wo Nerae 2 Diebusterhttps://anilist.co/anime/1002/Gunbuster2Diebuster/ with the task of adapting Yoshiyuki Sadamotohttps://anilist.co/staff/98158/YoshiyukiSadamotos character designs for animation. This experience led him to become one of the main character designers at the studio designing the iconic characters for Gurren Lagannhttps://anilist.co/anime/2001/. He left Gainax to have his debut as director on The Idolmsterhttps://anilist.co/anime/10278/TheIdolMaster/ a personal passion project since hes a great fan of the series. Several Gainax staff followed Nishigori to A1 Pictureshttps://anilist.co/studio/561/ and worked on the series alongside staff from newly formed Triggerhttps://anilist.co/studio/803/Trigger. In 2018 he directed his original project Darling in the Franxxhttps://anilist.co/anime/99423/ once again reuniting with his Gainax friends spread among CloverWorkshttps://anilist.co/studio/6222/ Trigger and Studio Kharahttps://anilist.co/studio/47/. More recently he worked as character designer and chief animation director for Hideaki Annohttps://anilist.co/staff/100111/s final Evangelion installment Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Timehttps://anilist.co/anime/3786/Evangelion3010ThriceUponATime/.
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