Takayoshi Sato (Japanese: 佐藤隆善, Hepburn: Satō Takayoshi) is a Japanese video game character designer, writer, and CGI creator. Sato is best known as being a member of Team Silent from 1996 to 2003 and was responsible for creating the CGI cutscenes for Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2.
Biography Sato was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Sato began studying Art at Tama Art University in 1992 and in 1996 received his bachelor's degree in oil painting.
According to Masahiro Ito, after development on Silent Hill 2 wrapped up, Sato was supposed to work on Silent Hill 3 as a character designer and CGI creator, but since the development period was 10 months, it was impossible schedule-wise. He drafted a script for Silent Hill 3 which went unused, before he left Konami in February 2003 following a disagreement concerning his pay on Silent Hill 2. He told in a 2009 interview, "What I was thinking was similar genre, different game. I think I better keep it secret. Who knows there may be a chance to realize the idea some day?"
When Sato started working on serious games, he said, "I feel that games are being standardized into only a few formats lately: FPS, RTS, MMO, 3rd Person Action and Sports. There's a tendency to create the same games over and over with only a visual upgrade. And the only thing artists are supposed to do is "be professional" and gift-wrap the same game elements with a pretty new skin."
In 2011 he received the Advanced Character Animation degree.
Sato has been employed at Nintendo since February 2012 working as a visual producer.
Works Video game Year Role Sexy Parodius 1996 Designer Silent Hill 1999 Character Designer, CGI Creator Silent Hill 2 2001 Character Designer, CGI Creator Silent Hill 3 2003 Script (unused) GoldenEye: Rogue Agent 2004 Character Art Director Tiberium 2005–2007 Producer, Art Director (cancelled) Fatale 2009 Character Designer and Modeler Moonbase Alpha 2010 Art Director Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move 2013 Visual Producer Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars 2015 Visual Producer Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash 2015 Visual Producer Paper Mario: Color Splash 2016 Visual Producer Mario Sports: Superstars 2017 Visual Producer Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions 2017 Visual Supervisor Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers 2018 Visual Producer, Art Director Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey 2018 Visual Supervisor Luigi's Mansion 3 2019 Visual Producer Paper Mario: The Origami King 2020 Visual Producer Mario Strikers: Battle League 2022 Visual Producer Metroid Prime: Remastered 2023 Visual Producer Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door 2024 Visual Producer Metroid Prime 4: Beyond 2025 Visual Producer
References
External links Official website
Takayoshi Sato at MobyGames