Norio Matsumoto
Visual Effects
Matsumoto Norio is an influential and prolific action and character animator. He began his career after graduating from Tatsunoko's animators training program. He worked as an "inbetweener" for Oh! Productions (1987-89), mentored under Tomohiro Hirata and was influenced by Satoru Utsunomiya and Takashi Nakamura, for which he has adapted elements of their approach for a wider audience. His style employs soft and simplified drawings to make very fluid, realistic movements. Norio is perhaps best known for his work on the Naruto franchise, being the lead animator on Wakabayashi's episodes 30, 71, 133; and episode 167 of Shippuden.
Visual Effects (109)
Opening/Ending Animation
2002
Key Animation
2002
Key Animation
2016
Key Animation
1989
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2014
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2007
Opening/Ending Animation
2007
Key Animation
2018
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1989
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2013
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1998
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1999
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1998
Animation Director
1998
Key Animation
1996
Key Animation
1996
Animation
2021
Key Animation
2007
Animation Director
1996
Key Animation
1996
Key Animation
2006
Opening/Ending Animation
1993
Key Animation
1993
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1995
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2004
Key Animation
2007
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1995
Key Animation
2021
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2012
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1989
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2018
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2006
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2020
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1995
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2010
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1990
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2003
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2008
Animation Director
2008
Key Animation
2005
Animation Director
2005
Animation
2005
Key Animation
1997
Animation Director
1997
Key Animation
1990
Key Animation
2008
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2008
Key Animation
1993
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1999
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2009
Opening/Ending Animation
2017
Animation
2017
Key Animation
2002
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1989
Animation
2001
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2001
Animation Director
2001
Key Animation
1995
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1999
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2002
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2016
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2007
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2004
Animation Director
2004
Animation Director
1994
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1994
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1994
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2010
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2007
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2015
Animation Director
2013
Key Animation
2013
Opening/Ending Animation
2004
Key Animation
2004
Key Animation
2002
Key Animation
1997
Animation Director
2015
Key Animation
2015
Key Animation
1990
Key Animation
2022
Animation
2013
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2005
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2003
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2007
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2022
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2006
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2008
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2023
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2010
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2012
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2005
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2023
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1991
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2017
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2019
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2008
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2006
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2000
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2010
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1995
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2011
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1995
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2015
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2015
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2000
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2003
Key Animation
1990
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1999
Key Animation
1996