- Naoko Yamada is a Japanese animator, television and film director. Working at Kyoto Animation, she directed the K-On! and Tamako Market anime series and the anime film A Silent Voice.
Yamada was born in Gunma Prefecture. As a child she enjoyed drawing images from the Patlabor and Dragonball anime series.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges
- Usaully works with screenwriter, Reiko Yoshida.
- She uses color composition to generate mood and atmosphere in scenes.
- Her works feature low-angle shots on the characters' legs.
- Usually works with composer, Kensuke Ushio.
- Yamada describes herself as a "method" director, emphasizing the minds of the characters.
- Worked as an animator and director for Kyoto Animation from 2005-2019.
- Yamada credits her animation style to her love of live-action films.
- Yamada often encourages her co-workers to have an enjoyable work environment so that their project can be worthwhile.
- On her trademark shots of legs: When you're nervous, you move your legs around. I think that it would be nice to express emotion like that.
- It's very important to me to treat the characters as individual people. I don't think of them as imaginary; instead I try to come in touch with them from their perspective.
- When I direct a title, I'm determined to do anything to make it great, so that everyone walks out of it thinking it was worthwhile, glad to have been involved.
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