1. Naoko Yamada is a Japanese animator and director.
16 Facts About Naoko Yamada
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Naoko Yamada has won multiple awards for her work, as well as become world renowned for her stylistic choices in anime.
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Naoko Yamada was one of the youngest people to be made a director with Kyoto Animation, getting her first directing opportunity around 4 years after finishing college and starting work for the studio.
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Naoko Yamada enjoyed drawing as a child and would copy images from the Patlabor and Dragon Ball series.
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Always showing an interest in film, Yamada would stay up late as a child just to catch whatever film might be playing in the evening slot.
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Naoko Yamada showed interest in extracurricular activities as well, joining the volleyball club in primary school and the tennis and photography clubs in high school.
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Naoko Yamada originally intended to work in film after graduating from university, but she decided to join Kyoto Animation after seeing an advertisement the company had posted at her school.
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Naoko Yamada first worked as an inbetweener for the very popular anime Inuyasha, which was outsourced to the studio at that time.
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Naoko Yamada was eventually promoted as a key animator for a TV adaptation of Air.
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Naoko Yamada was reported not to have been hurt in the fire.
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In 2020, Naoko Yamada departed from Kyoto Animation, and she debuted with her first work outside of her home studio.
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Naoko Yamada started her work on the original net animation The Heike Story, at the anime studio Science SARU, which released its first episode in September 2021.
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Naoko Yamada describes herself as a "method" director, emphasizing the minds of the characters.
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Specifically, her use of low angle shots, shallow depth of field, and varying camera movement, allows Naoko Yamada's to pull in the audience stylistically just as any live action film would.
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When it comes to how Naoko Yamada thinks about her characters, she focuses heavily on styles of communication.
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Naoko Yamada focuses a lot on the color composition in each shot of her works, by using specific tones she can better portray the emotions the characters are going through.