World Fandom May 30th 2025
Live Drawing by Tatsuzo Nishita
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Tatsuzo Nishita, animation director for The Boy and the Beast, demonstrates his drawing techniques live. Bring your questions too as he will do his best to field your questions as he draws. Perhaps we can learn more about his approach to those amazing action sequences in Summer Wars.
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Tatsuzo Nishita
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Animation Director and Key Animator Tatsuzo Nishita has contributed to many Studio Chizu works.

Mr. Nishita Born in 1979. He used to work for Toei Animation and is currently a freelance animator. He was a key animator on The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) and Wolf Children (2012). He was animation director on action sequences for Summer Wars (2009) and animation director on The Boy and The Beast (2015). He was also involved in many other theatrical animations including Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013).