Takayoshi Sato
aka:
さとう たかよし
Moby ID: 67769
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Nintendo Co., Ltd. - 2012-Present: Visual Producer
Virtual Heroes Division of ARA- 2007-2011: Art Director
Electronic Arts- 2006-2007: Producer - 2003-2006: Art Director
Konami of America- 2002-2003: Studio Creative Director
Konami- 1999-2001: CGI Director
Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo- 1996-1998: CGI Director / CG Artist - 1996: Artist / Animator
Takayoshi Sato is a Japanese artist responsible for most of the models and character design in the first two Silent Hill games. He also did all (!) the CG movies in both games all by himself, from concept to direction and full design. His first game was Sexy Parodius as a part of the porting process where he did some of the artwork, animations and designed the interface. He was the only artist on the team for the console conversion.
After those game he worked at Electronic Arts, Inc. and was associate art director on Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. He later left to work on serious games at the company Virtual Heroes.
He initially studied sculpture and fine art at Tama Art University in Toyko.
Credited on 23 games
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| Silent Hill 2 (2024, Windows) | Character Design / C.G.I. |
| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024, Nintendo Switch) | Visual Producer |
| Metroid Prime: Remastered (2023, Nintendo Switch) | Visual Producer |
| Mario Strikers: Battle League (2022, Nintendo Switch) | Visual Producer |
| Paper Mario: The Origami King (2020, Nintendo Switch) | Visual Producer |
| Luigi's Mansion 3 (2019, Nintendo Switch) | Visual Producer |
| Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr's Journey (2018, Nintendo 3DS) | Visual Supervisor |
| Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers (2018, Nintendo 3DS) | Visual Producer / Art Director |
| Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions (2017, Nintendo 3DS) | Visual Supervisor |
| Mario Sports: Superstars (2017, Nintendo 3DS) | Visual Producer |
| Paper Mario: Color Splash (2016, Wii U) | Visual Producer |
| Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash (2015, Wii U) | Visual Producer |
| Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars (2015, Wii U) | Visual Producer |
| Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (2014, Wii U) | Special Thanks |
| Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move (2013, Nintendo 3DS) | Visual Producer |
| Moonbase Alpha (2010, Windows) | Art Director |
| Fatale (2009, Windows) | Character Design |
| GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004, PlayStation 2) | Character Art Director |
| Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams (2002, PlayStation 2) | Character Design/C.G.I. (Sato, Works U.S.A.) |
| Silent Hill 2 (2001, PlayStation 2) | Character Design/CGI |
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2010's
Frequent Collaborators
People- 14 games with Shinya Takahashi
- 10 games with Richard Amtower IV
- 10 games with Shigeru Miyamoto
- 10 games with Tsuyoshi Watanabe
- 10 games with Reiko Ninomiya
- 10 games with Nathan Bihldorff
- 9 games with Charles Martinet
- 9 games with Kensuke Tanabe
- 9 games with Samantha Kelly
- 9 games with Tim O'Leary
Companies
- 14 games with Nintendo of America Inc.
- 13 games with Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- 10 games with Mario Club, Inc.
- 9 games with NOA Product Testing
- 7 games with Nintendo of Europe GmbH
- 5 games with DIGITAL Hearts Co., Ltd.
- 4 games with Konami Corporation
- 4 games with Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
- 4 games with LATAMEL Distribuidora S....
- 3 games with Team Silent
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