Hibiki Yoshizaki
Hibiki Yoshizaki | |
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| Born |
March 10, 1980
Tokyo, Japan
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| Occupation(s) | Video artist, animator, music video director, art director, motion graphics designer |
| Known for |
ME!ME!ME! GIRL Kirai, Demo, Suki Eve's Bouto (Mob) |
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Hibiki Yoshizaki (吉崎 響, Yoshizaki Hibiki, born March 10, 1980) is a Japanese video artist, animator, music video director, art director, and motion graphics designer. He is best known for his animated music videos "ME!ME!ME!" and "GIRL," which gained mainstream popularity both in Japan and internationally after being submitted to the Japan Animator Expo. He also works as VJ Cotobuki with Naoki Nagayasu.
Biography
Yoshizaki was born in Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 16, he was deeply impressed by Kōji Morimoto's MV "Extra" (music by Ken Ishii), which inspired him to work in animation. As a high school student, he started working in Gainax under the guidance of Hiroyuki Yamaga. He then entered Tama Art University and started working as a VJ in nightclubs all around Tokyo while studying animation under the mentorship of Kōji Morimoto at Studio 4°C.
After graduation, he became a freelance motion graphics designer and art director, mainly for animated music videos and promotional videos. In 2011, for making Clammbon's Kanade Dance MV, he was selected as one of the top 100 video artists of the year in a magazine published by BNN Shinsha, Japan. In 2013, he created the first-two original animated music videos "ME!ME!ME!" and "GIRL" in collaboration with TeddyLoid and Daoko. It was made as the 3rd and 31st episode of Japan Animator Expo, which has gone viral with over 100 million views on YouTube and achieved the highest number of views among all 36 episodes in the project. After working as a freelance art director for 18 years, he joined Khara in 2016.
Selected works
Television series
- AKB0048: Next Stage (2013; Opening director and storyboard artist)
- Macross Frontier (2008; motion graphics)
OVAs
- Macross Zero (2003-2004; CG)
- Gundam Evolve (2005; CG (episode 13))
- Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta (2013; opening director, storyboard artist, and motion graphics)
- Yozakura Quartet: Tsuki ni Naku (2013-2014; opening director and storyboard artist)
- Psycho-Pass 2 (2014; subtitle design)
Films
- Halo Legends (2010; Display designer (The Package))
- Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (2012; Motion graphics director and design works)
- Harlock: Space Pirate (2013; Title logo design)
- The Dragon Dentist (2017; Unit director and storyboard artist)
- Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021; Storyboard artist)
- Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation (2022; Eve's song Bouto (Mob) MV director)
Music videos
- ME!ME!ME! by TeddyLoid feat. Daoko (2014; director, unit director, editor, compositor, storyboard artist, visual effects, and original creator)
- ME!ME!ME! CHRONIC by TeddyLoid feat. Daoko (2015; director, storyboard artist, and original creator)
- GIRL by Daoko (2015; director, storyboard artist, and original creator)
- Sakura Nagashi by Hikaru Utada (2016; director)
- The Asahi Shimbun by Motohiro Onishi (2016; director)
Other MV
- Believe by i-dep (2007; Director)
- Room #204 by Jazztronik (2009; Director)
- KANADE DANCE by Clammbon (2010; Director)
Video games
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (2003; Item designer)
- Ace Combat Infinity (2013; Cinematics and motion graphics)
- Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (2019; Cinematics director)
Commercials
- HAL Tokyo College of Technology & Design: Kirai, Demo, Suki (2016, 2020; Director)
Awards and recognition
- 2014: MTV Video Music Award Japan for Best Animation Video for "ME! ME! ME!" by TeddyLoid feat. Daoko
- 2014: Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Animation for "ME! ME! ME!" by TeddyLoid feat. Daoko
- 2015: Tokyo Anime Award for Best Music Video for "GIRL" by Daoko
- 2022: Tokyo Anime Award for Best Director for Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time