the Fukiya Koji Award Commemorative Lecture:Hidetsugu Ito

the Fukiya Koji Award Commemorative Lecture:Hidetsugu Ito

Japan’s leading effects animator looks back on their career—focusing on award-winning works such as ChaO and The Last Blossom—and reveals the secrets behind their creative process.

Speaker: Hidetsugu Ito

Hidetsugu Ito has been at the forefront of the Japanese animation industry for many years as a specialist in action and effects animator. Ito possesses exceptional skill in transforming natural phenomena—such as water, fire, and explosions—and dynamic character action into unique forms of animated expression. His representative works include STEAMBOY (Key Animator), the NARUTO movie series (Animation Director, Key Animator, etc.), Sword of the Stranger (Co-Animation Director, Key Animator), the Doraemon movie series (Key Animator), Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (Key Animator), Weathering with You (Fish Designer, Key Animator), Suzume (Sadaijin (Giant Form) Designer, Prop Designer, Key Animator), and many others.