Kitaka Amano is a Japanese contemporary painter and master illustrator. Final Fantasy series of game art, characters, illustrations. In addition, he has participated in the art creation and illustration of works including Yoshiki Tanaka's famous book "Battle of Arslan", the late Japanese fantasy novelist Kaoru Kurimoto's masterpiece "Guin Saga", Kikuchi Hideyuki's vampire theme masterpiece "Vampire Hunter D", and Ubisoft's fantasy role-playing game "Children of Light".
Amano's paintings are rich in gorgeous and exquisite picture design and layout, and he is good at using various decorative symbol languages as embellishments, and his character painting style is unique and highly recognizable. The work of this master, who spans many fields such as art, games, novels, and animation, is generally considered to be deeply influenced by the Viennese Secession painters of the last century, and his composition and expression methods have many similarities with Klimt, the representative of the Viennese Secession painters. In addition, the character part of his pen seems to draw on the mysterious lines and hidden rhyme-like brushstrokes of Egun Schiller of Klimt.
Vampire Hunter D
In this most familiar vampire-themed animated film, director Kawajiri Yoshiaki uses the gorgeous style of illustrations drawn by Kitaka Amano for the original novel. The director successfully conveyed the magnificent and beautiful pictures in Amano's works with the visual language of animation, which is a heterochromatic classic that explores the vampire and dark aesthetics to the extreme.
"Memories Of The Wind"
Like Vampire Hunter D, the production lineup is a combination of Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Kiyotaka Amano. An elevated apocalyptic worldview, a rare road movie theme in Japanese animation.
"Angel's Egg"
Oshii Mori + Amano Kitaka, the collision of two masters. What this animation shows in front of people's eyes is a deep and dark world, with no clear story line, no routine-like script section, more imagery and metaphors. Of course, people intuitively feel more about its excellent music, the overall sense of atmosphere brought by the extremely textured picture, color, shape, and line. However, this work, which is more experimental than story, contains director Oshii Mori's discussion and understanding of religion and philosophy.
"One Thousand and One Nights", "Song of birds", "Centennial Phantom"
These works have a strong experimental atmosphere, not animation in the traditional sense, but more like dynamic illustrated picture books with sound. In these works, you can glimpse the huge and boundless art universe full of wonderful fantasies reflected by Amano Yoshitaka.