Hiroki Yamamura is a Japanese animator, character designer and storyboard artist.
12 Facts About Hiroki Yamamura
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Hiroki Yamamura worked on a number of different titles from a number of different studios that were outsourcing work to Studio Pastoral, but he gained prominence within Shaft's works and mainly took on jobs for the studio.
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Hiroki Yamamura was a fan of Morioka's work and had been attentive to him since before entering the industry, so he tried to incorporate many of Morioka's favorite styles in Maria Holic.
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In 2010, Hiroki Yamamura started doing character design work, with his first job as such being Shaft's And Yet the Town Moves; and a year later, he designed the characters for the Katteni Kaizo OVA, an adaptation of another manga from the author of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei.
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Hiroki Yamamura acted as a chief animation director and animation director for Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie.
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The third film was split into 5 units and Hiroki Yamamura only acted as chief animation director for the D-part and beginning of the E-part, with Taniguchi handling the rest.
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However, for several years, Oishi worked on the project and Shinbo invested in Tomoyuki Itamura to continue with other parts of the series, which Hiroki Yamamura occasionally participated in alongside other series.
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Oishi was adamant about the female characters being "cute" and the male characters being "hot" to appeal to the fans, which coincides with Hiroki Yamamura's drawing style according to Shinbo's comment that his drawings appeal to women.
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In 2020, Hiroki Yamamura participated as one of the chief animation directors for the first season of Magia Record, helping on 10 of the 13 episodes.
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Hiroki Yamamura found difficulty in drawing the characters cutely, so he used Sugiyama's supervised parts as references due to a scene in episode 2 that Hiroki Yamamura thought was impressive.
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Hiroki Yamamura still belonged to Studio Pastoral as of the 2000s, but Pastoral's relationship with Shaft ended around 2011 or 2012.
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Whether Hiroki Yamamura stayed with Pastoral and did work for Shaft, left Pastoral and went freelance, or left Pastoral and joined Shaft is not known.