Hidetaka Tenjin | |
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Born |
Kobe City, Japan |
October 13, 1973
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation |
Anime artist Sci-fi artist Mecha anime illustrator |
Known for |
Macross The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Macross Zero Macross Frontier Space Battleship Yamato |
Hidetaka Tenjin (天神 英貴 Tenjin Hidetaka?, born 1973) is a Japanese mecha anime artist and sci-fi illustrator.
Hidetaka Tenjin was born in Nishinomiya, Kobe City, on October 13, 1973. After graduating from the Shibaura institute of Technology's Department of System Engineering, majoring in mechanical control systems, he became a freelance illustrator.
Later he established the Tenjin Studio Ltd. where he began working on plastic model box art, video game software and DVD cover art, illustrations, etc., the best known being in the Hasegawa Macross series, the Bandai MG Gundam series, Konami's Gradius V videogame, Space Battleship Yamato Fact File illustrations, etc. He has declared in many occasions that his realistic art style is influenced by the works of Yoshiyuki Takani, Noriyoshi Ohrai, Shigeru Komatsuzaki, Yuji Kaida and Tsuyoshi Nagano.
Tenjin Hidetaka has also worked as an animation artist in several sci-fi anime productions like Macross Zero, Sousei no Aquarion, Gundam Evolve, Macross Frontier and Macross Delta.