citylikeyou — Toei Animation Gallery — Tokyo by Takahiro Kimura

Tokyo / Gallery

This gallery is located in the Toei Animation. Toei Animation, with the history of more than 50 years, is a representative animation company in Japan, and has produced a lot of animated movies and TV animated cartoons. In this gallery, the valuable interesting things used in the animations beforehand are displayed.

Address
Toei Animation Gallery, 2-10-5 Higashi Ohizumi, Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Artist Animator Illustrator

Current city: Tokyo

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Takahiro Kimura is a Japanese animator, illustrator and character designer based in Tokyo. Takahiro studied technology of painting and graphic design at Salesian Polytechnic, as well as drawing, landscape painting and fashion drawing at Setsu Mode Seminar. In 2003 Takahiro created a group of web and television collage animation characters collectively called Kimsnake.

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