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Tetsuya Nishio

Japanese animator and character designer (born 1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Tetsuya Nishio (西尾 鉄也, Nishio Tetsuya; born 23 June 1968 in Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese animator and character designer.

Nishio began his career as an inbetweener for the TV series Osomatsu-kun (1988).[1] He worked for Studio Pierrot on Ninku (1995-1996).[2] Since he was hired to work on Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999), he has worked for Production I.G., having previously done freelance work.[3] Minipato came about because Nishio made some promotional character illustrations which Patlabor series creator Oshii liked.[4] Nishio Millennium Actress (2001), and The Cat Returns (2002).[5] He won the Tokyo Anime Award for best character design at the Tokyo International Anime Fair for his work on The Sky Crawlers in 2009.[6] Nishio is particularly noted for his designs of older men.[7]

Masashi Kishimoto requested that Tetsuya Nishio oversee the character designs of Naruto when the manga was adapted into an anime series.[8]

An artbook has been released of his works, called The Art of Tetsuya Nishio: Full Spectrum.[9]

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