Shunya Yamashita

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Shunya Yamashita ( 山下しゅんや, Born November 15, 1970 in the Saitama prefecture in Japan), is an artist.

1 Biography
2 Works
3 Style
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

In 2000, Shunya worked at Square Enix as a character designer for Final Fantasy X as an NPC and weapons designer. He later worked as a character designer on the online game Depth Fantasia, and was an event illustrator for the game Phantom Kingdom. He also worked on the other titles such as Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria and Xanadu: Next. He is also working with various toy companies to release a line-up of PVC figures, garage kits and statues based on his character designs.

[edit] Works

Published Artbook "Sweet Dreams: The Art of Shunya Yamashita"
Several Covers for Wani's adult magazine "Comic Beast"
Published the manga "Vermin Road"
Event art for "Phantom's Kingdom"
Art for adult game "Gakuen Tengoku"
Character designer for Squaresoft's online role playing game "Depth Fantasia"
Non-player character and item design for Squaresoft's Final Fantasy XII
Character and environment designer for Falcom's "Xanadu: Next"
He is the secondary player character and non-player character designer in SquareEnix's Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
Artwork for Dimension-Zero's trading card game
Several PVC figures and garage kits based on his artwork have been released.

[edit] Style

His art draws on many different influences and can be described as a blend of Heavy Metal and Anime, and is particularly known for the beautiful expressions and entrancing eyes of his subjects. Usually his artwork ranges from classic fantasy to post apocalyptic futures, always bound together with the stylized beauty of his women.

Even when his art style may look simplistic at first, it has a well-grounded structure, as Yamashita is knowledgeable of human anatomy, proportion and weight. He applies this knowledge to his works, at times in a slight almost imperceivable way.