Hiroyuki Taiga

Hiroyuki Taiga (大河 広行 Taiga Hiroyuki) is a Japanese animator, animation director and mechanical design artist. He has worked on several anime productions including several of Bandai's [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Gundam|{{#if:||Gundam}}]] series.

Hiroyuki Taiga was the man in charge of designing the majority of the major Maximals and Autobots from Beast Wars II, Beast Wars Neo and Car Robots. His character model art style is most notable for its use of mid-to-low 3/4 angles that look up at the robot. Hiroyuki also appears to stick more to designing the rounder Beast Era-styled designs, over the boxy Generation 1-esque designs.

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Credits

• Beast Wars II — Character design (also responsible for designing the ships and several other mechanical devices used throughout the cartoon)
• Beast Wars Neo — Character design, and second ending animation alongside Takahiro Yamada
• Car Robots — Character design, mechanical design, and key animation in "Final Battle! Fire Convoy"

Known design work

The lists below only contain the surfaced model sheets with either his signature or name printed on them, it's entirely possible that his work on these cartoons is much larger than just what is listed here.

Animation

Beast Wars II

Characters

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• Lio Convoy (Earth and Cybertronian modes)
• Apache (Earth and Cybertronian modes)
• Diver (Earth and Cybertronian modes)
• Scuba/Ikard (Earth and Cybertronian modes)
• Tasmania Kid (Earth and Cybertronian modes)
• Bighorn (Earth and Cybertronian modes)
• Magnaboss (cartoon version)
• Lio Junior (cartoon version)
• Santon (cartoon version)
• Skywarp (cartoon version)
• Artemis
• Moon

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Other

• The Yukikaze
• The Galvaburg II
• Cybertron Buster
• Various other ships and props

Beast Wars Neo

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• Big Convoy
• Longrack
• Colada
• Stampy
• Heinrad
• Break
• Mach Kick
• Star Upper
• Drancron
• Elphaorpha
• Latolata

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Car Robots

• Fire Convoy/Super Fire Convoy (Optimus Prime)
• Wildride (X-Brawn)
• Mach Alert (Prowl)
• Speedbreaker (Side Burn)

Toys

Binaltech Asterisk

• Ai Kuruma
• Junko Shiragami (Kelly)
• Lumina Hoshi

Legacy

• Omega Prime
  (Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus with Autobot Bluebolts and Cerebros)<ref>Interview with Hasbro designer Evan Brooks on the Triple Takeover podcast, from their YouTube channel</ref>

Illustration

DVD box package arts

• Transformers: Victory — DVD BOX 01
• Transformers: Victory — DVD BOX 02

Gallery

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Extended Hiroyuki Taiga gallery

External links

• Hiroyuki Taiga at Anime News Network
• Hiroyuki Taiga on Twitter

References

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