Born in 1960, Toshihiko Masuda is one of the major directors at Telecom Animation Film, he went to Telecom in 1980 as a in-between animator and became a director in 1983 taking over Hayao Miyazaki's unit after he left to go work at
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Masuda is knowed for being wacky and crazy in his works (but he still does straight forward stuff) and is the one who set the style in Telecom's Western Productions in the 80's and especially in the 90's.
Productions worked on by Toshihiko Masuda:
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80's work
90's work
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Chief Telecom Director, Storyboard, Timing and Lay Out Revisionist, Character and BG Key Design and Episode Animation Director; Notably the opening, Tiny Toons Music Television, parts of Tiny Toon Adventures How I Spent My Vacation and Take Elmyra Please.
- Ozanari Dungeon: Director for OVA 1.
- Peter Pan And The Pirates: Episode Animation Director.
- Batman The Animated Series: Storyboards (Revisionist for the 1st show, full on board artist for the 2nd), Character and BG Key Design (BG Key Design only for the 2nd show), Lay Out Revisionist (for the 1st show) and Animation Director (notably for Fear Of Victory and the cut scenes to the Sega CD version of The Adventures Of Batman and Robin).
- Animaniacs: Chief Telecom Director, Storyboard, Timing and Lay Out Revisionist, Character (notably for Mr. Director) and BG Key Design and Episode Animation Director.
- Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog: Animation Director; Notably on the opening and Quest For The Chaos Emeralds part 4.
- 2 Disk Station shorts: 1 Puyo Puyo Based (the one when Rulue has the hots for Minotauros but it turns out it was just a dream
) and one thats not Puyo based. - Lupin III Farewell To Nostradamus: Assistant Animation Director.
- The Sylvester And Tweety Mysteries: Chief Telecom Director.
- Astal: Telecom Director.
- A Pinky And The Brain Christmas: Head Animation Director (he is listed as a director and under the name Toshiko Masuda, but the special's real director is Rusty Mills).
- Superman The Animated Series: Animation Production Supervisor for 2 episodes, Episode Director for 2 episodes and all 3 parts to World's Finest, Storyboards, BG Key Design and Key Animation.
- An American Tail: The Treasure Of Manhattan Island: Key Animation.
- Cyber Six: Chief Telecom Director, Storyboards and Episode Director.
2000's work
Note: Because of other studios outsouceing large amounts of work to Telecom by this time (and even as of now) to be handled by a lot of their staff (Masuda included), so not everything will be listed.
2010's work
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