Satoru Utsunomiya
Visual Effects
🎂 1959-04-17
Satoru Utsunomiya was born in 1959 in Matsuyama, Ehime. He joined Telecom Animation in 1982 because his idol Yasuo Otsuka worked there, after graduating from the design department in Nishinoda Technical High School in Osaka. Leading member of the realist school. Has had as big an impact on the industry as his contemporaries Mitsuo Iso and Shinya Ohira. Sent shockwaves through the industry with his character design and animation direction for Mamoru Oshii’s Gosenzosama Banbanzai.
Visual Effects (60)

Key Animation
1992

Key Animation
1981

Key Animation
2003

Key Animation
2011

Key Animation
1987

3D Director
2012

Key Animation
2014

Key Animation
1986

Key Animation
2014

Key Animation
2004

Animation Director
2004

Animation Director
2014

Key Animation
2014

Key Animation
1983

Key Animation
2005

Animation Director
2005

Animation
2005

Key Animation
1990

Key Animation
2002

Key Animation
1989

Character Designer
1989

Animation Director
1989

Key Animation
1992

Key Animation
1993

Key Animation
1994

Key Animation
2016

Key Animation
2004

Key Animation
1988

Key Animation
2005

Animation Director
2005

Key Animation
1995

Animation
2018

Key Animation
2004

Key Animation
2017

Key Animation
2008

Key Animation
2011

Key Animation
1985

Key Animation
1996

Key Animation
2009

Key Animation
2014

Key Animation
1989

Key Animation
1986

Key Animation
1986

Key Animation
1986

Key Animation
2014

Key Animation
1987

Key Animation
1986

Key Animation
1995

Key Animation
1985

Animation Director
1991

Animation
1991

Key Animation
1992

Character Designer
1990

Animation Director
1990

Key Animation
2005

Key Animation
1984

Key Animation
2003

Key Animation
1995

Key Animation
1994

Animation Director
2015