Japanese video game designer and illustrator (born 1966)
Takaya Imamura
今村 孝矢
Born
(1966-04-10) April 10, 1966 (age 58)
Takarazuka, Hyogo, Japan
Occupations
Video game designer
illustrator
teacher
Years active
1989–present
Employer
International Professional University of Technology
Known for
Contributing to the design of major Nintendo games, designing the characters of F-Zero and Star Fox and creating Tingle from Zelda
Takaya Imamura (今村 孝矢, Imamura Takaya, born April 10, 1966) is a teacher at the International Professional University of Technology in Osaka and manga artist. He was a Japanese artwork designer for Nintendo for 32 years, starting in 1989, and is known for designing the characters and story of F-Zero, including Captain Falcon, and most of the supporting characters from the Star Fox series of video games. He also played a role in designing games in the Legend of Zelda series, such as The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, invented the character Tingle, and served as supervising producer for F-Zero GX.
TakayaImamura (今村 孝矢, ImamuraTakaya, born April 10, 1966) is a teacher at the International Professional University of Technology in Osaka and manga...
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an anthropomorphic fox created and designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and TakayaImamura. He was introduced as a player character in the original 1993 video...
required to finish the game before having the options. Dylan Cuthbert and TakayaImamura stated in an interview with IGN that if this storyline was continued...
Nintendo producer Shigeru Miyamoto had requested Star Fox creator TakayaImamura to work on a Star Fox title that would forgo the series' usual 3D rail...
modern regulations. Promotional artwork for Star Fox 2 was created by TakayaImamura, the original Star Fox character designer. The instruction manual was...
Significant Earthquake". Retrieved 21 June 2012. Sato, H.; Yoshida T.; Takaya I.; Sato T.; Ikeda Y. & Umino N. (2004). "Late Cenozoic tectonic development...
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