Crossing the boundaries of painter, book illustrator, videogame designer, and film animator has made Yoshitaka Amano a multimedia jack-of-all-trades, not to mention one of Japan's most successful and proli�c artists. Now Amano is preparing to take the US by storm.
The first wave: Final Fantasy VII, a colorful role-playing videogame - d�buting this fall - in which revolutionaries battle for a powerful energy source. The game sold 2 million copies during its first weekend on shelves in Japan and is expected to do rather nicely in the US.
His next trick: Amano, whose credits also include animating the Cannes Film Festival entrant Tenshi No Tomago/L'Oeuf de l'Ange (The Angel's Egg) and designing a stained glass window for the Yosei Museum in Japan, is creating a collection of "New York-size" paintings for a November exhibition. With 18- by 40-foot canvases, Amano is poised for a big splashdown.
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