Takayoshi Sato

Takayoshi Sato
Born	Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	CGI director, video game developer
Known for	Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2

Takayoshi Sato (Japanese: 佐藤隆善, Hepburn: Satō Takayoshi) is a Japanese video game character designer and CGI director. He is widely known as a member of Team Silent. He created Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2.

Sato was born in Tokyo, Japan. In 1992 Sato studied Art in the Tama Art University of Tokyo. In 1996 he got his bachelor's degree in oil painting. In 2011 he got the Advanced Character Animation degree. Since February 2012 he works for Nintendo as a virtual effects producer.

When Sato started working on what he termed as serious games, he said, "I feel that games are being standardized into only a few formats lately: FPS, RTS, MMO, 3rd Person Action and Sports. There's a tendency to create the same games over and over with only a visual upgrade. And the only thing artists are supposed to do is "be professional" and gift wrap the same game elements with a pretty new skin."

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