Yutaka Nakamura

Yutaka Nakamura (中村 豊 , Nakamura Yutaka) (born 1967) is an animator, designer, and cinematographer. He's currently employed by Bones.

His works include key-animation on projects such as Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy, Fullmetal Alchemist and Eureka Seven. He is known for his dynamic and unique action sequences and is considered in animation circles as one of the greatest action cinematographers of his generation. Having the freedom to storyboard his own scenes, he mixes unique action cinematography and animation timing to create distinctive action scenes in his animation. His work has been discussed in an animation panel focused on Japanese animators, called "Yutaka Nakamura: Grandmaster Battle Animator." One of his most notable animation works includes the last action scene in the movie Sword of the Stranger.^[1]

Filmography

• Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) (key animator)
• The Vision of Escaflowne (1996) (key animator)
• Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) (key animator)
• Generator Gawl (1998) (assistant mechanical animation director)
• Cowboy Bebop (1998) (key animator)
• Escaflowne movie (2000) (key animator)
• Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) (key animator)
• Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) (key animator, weapons designer)
• RahXephon (2002) (key animator)
• Overman King-Gainer (2002) (key animator)
• Animatrix: A Detective Story (2003) (key animator, digital effects)
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2003) (key animator)
• Wolf's Rain (2003) (key animator)
• Fullmetal Alchemist (2004) (key animator, animation supervisor)
• Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005) (key animator, action animation supervisor)
• Eureka Seven (2005) (key animator)
• Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu (2005) (key animator)
• Darker than Black (2007) (key animator)
• Sword of the Stranger (2007) (key animator, action animation supervisor)
• Soul Eater (2008) (key animator)
• Star Driver (2010) (key animator)
• Towa no Quon (2011) (key animator)
• EUREKA SEVEN AO (2012) (key animator)
• Space Dandy (2014) (key animator)
• Kekkai Sensen (2015) (key animator)
• Concrete Revolutio (2015) (key animator)
• One Punch Man (2015) (key animator (ep 12, under a pseudonym))
• Mob Psycho 100 (2016) (key animator)
• Boku no Hero Academia (2017) (key animator)
• Kekkai Sensen & Beyond (2017) (key animator)

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