Shigefumi Hino
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Shigefumi Hino | |
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日野 重文 | |
| Born | 1963 (age 58–59) |
| Occupation | Video game director, graphic designer, planner |
| Employer | Nintendo (1988–present) |
Notable work | Yoshi |
Shigefumi Hino (日野 重文 Hino Shigefumi, born 1963) is a Japanese graphics designer, game director and planner from Nintendo. He is the creator of Yoshi from the Yoshi franchise.[1][2] Hino later served as the director of the Pikmin series, alongside Masamichi Abe.[3]
Career[]
Shigefumi Hino joined Nintendo in 1989, where his first project was designing a sequel to Famicom Grand Prix: F1 Race, which was ultimately unreleased. His first released product was Super Mario World in 1990, where he created the game's pixel art, as well as the character Yoshi, based on a rough sketch by Takashi Tezuka.[4] Afterwards, Hino had the idea for a game with Yoshi as the main character, which would become Yoshi's Island. He chose a hand-drawn visual style to differentiate it from Rare's Donkey Kong Country, a game that notably used pre-rendered 3D graphics.[4]
Hino then co-directed Pikmin and Pikmin 2 with Masamichi Abe,[5] as well as Pikmin 3 with Yuji Kando. He has additionally worked as a designer for Super Mario Maker and Super Mario Maker 2.
Works[]
- Super Mario World (1990) – Character designer[6]
- Yoshi's Cookie (1992) – Character designer[7]
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993) – Character designer
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995) – Director, character designer
- Super Mario 64 (1996) – CG illustrator[8]
- Tetris Attack (1996) – Design adviser
- Mario Kart 64 (1996) – CG character designer
- Game & Watch Gallery 2 (1997) – Design adviser
- Yoshi's Story (1997) – CG designer
- Pokémon Stadium (JP, 1998) – Effects designer
- Mario Party (1998) – Design support
- Game & Watch Gallery 3 (1999) – Design adviser
- Pokémon Stadium (1999) – 2D CG designer
- Pikmin (2001) – Director (with Masamichi Abe)[9]
- Pikmin 2 (2004) – Director (with Masamichi Abe)
- New Super Mario Bros. (2006) – Demo scene director
- Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (2007) – Sub-director
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009) – Planning
- Pikmin 3 (2013) – Director (with Yuji Kando)
- Super Mario Maker (2015) – Planning (with Arisa Hosaka)
- Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (2016) - Game design
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018) - Original game supervisor
- Super Mario Maker 2 (2019) - Game design
References[]
- ^ Reyes, Javier (12 April 2019). "7 Facts About Nintendo's Yoshi". Mental Floss.
- ^ Ashcraft, Brian (28 September 2017). "Confirmed: Mario Was Originally Punching Yoshi". Kotaku.
- ^ Arendt, Susan (3 December 2007). "Autographed Pikmin 2 Swag Auctioned for Charity". Wired. Wired News. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ^ a b Sao, Akinori. "Developer Interview, Volume 5". Nintendo. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ "開発スタッフ インタビュー" (in Japanese). Nintendo. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ "Super Mario World originally had Yoshi getting punched in the head". Polygon. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ^ PALINDROME : La face cachée d'une LAL (Leucémie aiguë lymphoblastique): - le combat d'une famille au quotidien -. 9 March 2018. ISBN 9791026216476.
- ^ Super Mario 64 Instruction Booklet. Nintendo. 1996. p. 24.
- ^ Dewinter, Jennifer (21 May 2015). Shigeru Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, the Legend of Zelda. ISBN 9781628923889.
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