Takashi Yamamoto

Takashi Yamamoto (山本 天志 Yamamoto Takashi, sometimes credited as Sato Yamamoto) is a Japanese animator, storyboard artist, episode director and animation director who has worked on countless anime productions over the years.

Takashi Yamamoto is most notable as being the character designer and animation director for "Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!" and is the one resposible for creating the alternate character models for the film's version of characters introduced in the second half of the Beast Wars II cartoon.

Character design credits

All credits listed below are specifically for the Beast Wars II film's version of the characters, while the cartoon itself used artwork done by Hiroyuki Taiga, Takahiro Yamada and Hiroshi Ogawa.

• Convoy/Burning Convoy
• Lio Convoy/Flash Lio Convoy (see "Notes" below)
• Magnaboss
• Lio Junior
• Santon
• Skywarp
• Hellscream
• Max-B
• Dirgegun
• Thrustor
• Majin Zarak

Notes

• A different Lio Convoy character model made by Yamamoto exists with no altered details when compared to Hiroyuki Taiga's model, the only difference is the pose. Weird how the animation team didn't just recolor Taiga's standard cartoon model, rather than drawing an all-new one to play around with the colors for his "Flash" form on. Perhaps it didn't fit the desired aesthetic for the film? Whether or not any other characters from the first half of the cartoon got slight redesigns for the film, remains to be seen.

External links

• Takashi Yamamoto at Anime News Network
• Takashi Yamamoto on Twitter