Masahiro Ito

Masahiro Itō (伊藤 暢達, Itō Masahiro^?) is a Japanese video game artist best known for his work with Team Silent in the Silent Hill franchise.

Career

Itō joined Team Silent following the release and success of the survival horror video game Silent Hill in 1999. Itō was art director for its spiritual sequel, Silent Hill 2 (2001), working on both the original games and its reissue Restless Dreams, as well as being the chief monster designer/modeler. Itō was art director again in Silent Hill 3 (2003), as well as "drama camera designer".

The team disbanded with the release of the fourth game, Silent Hill 4: The Room in 2004 and for which Itō received a "Special Thanks" credit in the game. Itō and fellow Team Silent scriptwriter Hiroyuki Owaku went on to work together on Silent Hill: Cage of Cradle (2006), a digital manga published by Konami, downloadable for cell-phones and only available in Japan.

He maintains a personal website,^[1] complete with an online gallery of his Silent Hill-oriented artwork.^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.geocities.jp/nobu_hill/index.html
2. ^ http://www.geocities.jp/nobu_hill/gallery.html

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