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Stig Asmussen
Stig Asmussen graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh with a degree in Communication Arts Multi Media (or computer animation) in 1998. He got his first job in the industry working for Midway as a Level Artist on Gauntlet: Dark Legacy and Dr. Mudo. After the mass layoffs that hit its San Jose studio, he quickly found a job at Sony Studio Santa Monica as an Environmental Art Lead on God of War, still relatively early in development. He would continue working as an artistic director on the God of War series until he was given a chance to become director on God of War III after Cory Barlog's departure in 2007. -
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Tetsuya Takahashi
Tetsuya Takahashi is a video game developer and director. He is also the co-founder and president of the video game developer Monolith Soft. -
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Bruce Straley
Bruce Straley is an American video game developer. He works for Naughty Dog. He has worked on the Uncharted franchise and is currently the Game Director of upcoming survival action game The Last of Us. -
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Kenji Miki
History with NintendoKenji Miki started his career at Nintendo as director, creating the NES games Ice Climber and NES Open Tournament Golf. He then went on to work as a producer on various titles. In 2003 he joined Nintendo's Software Planning Division as one of the chief producers. -
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Akira Toriyama
Early WorkToriyama's first manga was 'Wonder Island' published in the Shonen Jump weekly magazine. Following, he published several other one-shot manga stories for Shonen including 'Today's Highlight Island', 'Tomato' and 'Hetappi'. He soon gained popularity due to a weekly manga and accompanying anime, Dr. Slump which ran for 4 years. In 1982, 2 years into Dr. Slump Toriyama won the Shogakukan Manga Award for best manga. Whilst Dr. Slump was running Toriyama wrote a number of single issue manga's on the side including 'Escape', 'Pola and Roid', 'Pink', 'Mad Matic' and 'Chobit'.Dragon BallThe same year that Dr. Slump ended, Toriyama started a new series entitled 'Dragon Ball'. It was initially meant to be a parody of a Chinese folk tale 'A Journey to the West' in which a monkey-boy travels the world to find the Dragon pearls so that the eternal dragon will grant his wish. After the first story ark, or saga, this theme was dropped from the manga, instead moving towards a more martial arts focus. The series them continued on for 11 years, from 1984-1995, garnering Toriyama much fame, selling over 35 million copies in Japan and 120 million worldwide. It was also turned into a sucessful anime titled 'Dragon Ball' and later 'Dragon Ball Z' along with numerous movies and a spin off series 'Dragon Ball GT' in which Toriyama had little involvement.Other MangaAkira Toriyama has continued making many short one-issue manga's published in Shonen Jump incluing his self parody 'Neko Majin'. A full list of his manga following Dragon Ball is:Mr HoLady RedKennosuke-SamaSonchohMamejiroAkira Toriyama's Manga Theater Vol.1Akira Toriyama's Manga Theater Vol.2KaramaruWolfCashman Saving SoldierDub & Peter 1Go! Go! AckmanChotto Kaettekita Dr. SlumpTokimechaAlien X-PekeBubulAkira Toriyama's Manga Theater Vol.3Cowa!Cashman Saving Soldier/New Cashman Saving SoldierTahi MahiKajkijaSand LandBitch's LifeKochikameCross EpochUntitled Masakazu Katsura CollaborationGamesDue to his success as a manga artist, Toriyama has been able to work as character designer on many high profile Japanese RPGs. His first and most well-known video game work was the contribution of his character and monster designs for the Dragon Quest series, which sell incredibly high numbers in Japan with each new release. He also provided the character designs for the classic SNES RPG Chrono Trigger, as well as lesser known titles such as Tobal No. 1 and Tobal 2. His most recent video game work outside of his continued commitment to the Dragon Quest series was for the Xbox 360 RPG Blue Dragon and its sequel Blue Dragon Plus. -
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Takashi Tokita
Published works Rad Racer II (1990) - Sound effects Final Fantasy III (1990) - Sound effects Final Fantasy IV (1991) - Lead designer Live A Live (1994) - Director, scenario writer, event design Chrono Trigger (1995) - Director DynamiTracer (1996) - Producer Final Fantasy VII (1997) - Event planning Parasite Eve (1998) - Director, story. Parasite Eve II (1999) - Special adviser Chocobo Racing (1999) - Director The Bouncer (2000) - Director, dramatisation Hanjuku Eiyuu Tai 3D (2003) - Producer, director Egg Monster Hero (2004) - Producer, director Hanjuku Eiyuu 4 (2005) - Producer, director Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls (2005) - Producer, design Final Fantasy IV Advance (2005) - Supervisor Musashi: Samurai Legend (2005) - Producer Final Fantasy IV ( Nintendo DS remake, 2007) - Executive producer, director Final Fantasy IV: The After Years (2008) - Producer Nanashi no Game (2008) - Producer Hikari no 4 Senshi: Final Fantasy Gaiden (2009) - Director -
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Yoshikazu Matsuhana
Yoshikazu Matsuhana is a video game maker with a long line of games and positions for Konami, under Kojima Productions. His work can be seen most prominently in the Metal Gear Solid series and his hands have touched almost every single title that have been created at Kojima Productions. -
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