Takumi Yokota

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/ohkowai/status/1446500402275373056 Takumi Yokota is an animator and character designer that is currently freelance. He was formerly affiliated with ufotable Anime International Company AIC and Shaft. After graduating from university from the Faculty of Law department he joined ufotable as a production assistant. He stated in an interview with Akiba Souken in 2019 that while watching movies and anime at the library in his third or fourth year of job hunting he fell in love with the work Patlabor: The Mobile Police directed by Mamoru Oshii. And while watching Oshiis interview he decided that he wanted to become a director and when he was researching on how to become a director he found out that one of the paths of becoming a director is by starting out as a production assistant and so he applied as a production assistant at ufotable. He later left ufotable due to various reasons and described himself as a NEET for almost half a year after departing from ufotable. After more than three months of being a NEET he thought to himself that he really needed to get a job and then remembered his time as a production assistant at ufotable. While still working as a production assistant at ufotable a conversation with an animator at ufotable stuck with him and thought subsequently: Lets go back to anime again And in 2007 he applied as an animator at Anime International Company AIC when he saw that the studio was hiring 20 new animators and got the position. He made his debut as an animator with 2007s Tokyo Majin coanimated by AIC Spirits and BeSTACK. He has stated that while at his time at the studio AIC took care of its animators well so that they could live and was occasionally treated by his seniors at the studio. He cites Ryuichi Makino as one of his mentors while at AIC. In 2011 he made his debut as an animation director in 2011 with AICs adaptation of R15 of the same name. In 2013 he made his character designer debut with Pupipo animated by AIC PLUS+. In 2014 he left AIC and became an animator at Shaft. As of December 2019 he has since become freelance. Source: MyAnimeListhttps://myanimelist.net/people/44494/TakumiYokota