Masahiro Ito

Masahiro Ito (伊藤 暢達, Itō Masahiro) is a Japanese video game artist best known for his work with Team Silent.

Career

Ito worked as background and monster designer on the survival horror video game Silent Hill in 1999. He was the art director for its sequel, Silent Hill 2 (2001), working on both the original game and its reissue Restless Dreams, as well as being the monster designer and modeler. Ito was the art director again in Silent Hill 3 (2003), as well as being a monster designer and modeler, background designer and modeler, drama camera designer, CGI movie editor.

Ito and fellow Team Silent scriptwriter Hiroyuki Owaku went on to work together on Silent Hill: Cage of Cradle (2006) and Silent Hill: Double under Dusk (2007), digital mangas published by Konami, downloadable for cell-phones and only available in Japan.[1]

He maintains a personal website, complete with an online gallery of his Silent Hill–oriented artwork.[2] Ito designed the cover art for the Japanese release of Silent Hill: Downpour (2012).[3]

In 2012, Masahiro Ito stated on his Twitter that he would be willing to work on another Silent Hill game with Hideo Kojima.[4] In 2016 he worked with Hifumi Kono and Takashi Shimizu on the video game NightCry featuring Kiyoishi Arai (Final Fantasy) for visuals, design and in image board team.[5]

Works

Title Year Role
Silent Hill 1999 Background and monster designer
Silent Hill 2 2001 Art director, monster designer and modeler
Silent Hill: Arcade 2001–2002 Art director (cancelled)
Silent Hill 3 2003 Art director, monster designer and modeler, background designer and modeler, drama camera designer, CGI movie editor
Untitled GTA-style game 2003–2006 Art director, lead animator and motion designer (cancelled)
Silent Hill: Dying Inside 2004 Alternate cover artist (volume 3)
Silent Hill: The Novel 2006 Illustrator
Silent Hill: Cage of Cradle 2006 Illustrator
Silent Hill 2: The Novel 2006 Illustrator
Silent Hill: Double under Dusk 2007 Illustrator
Silent Hill: The Arcade 2007 Illustrator
Silent Hill 3: The Novel 2007 Illustrator
Silent Hill: Origins 2008 Japanese soundtrack cover artist
White Hunter 2008 Illustrator, writer
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 2008 Painter
Silent Hill: Homecoming 2008 Japanese cover artist (cancelled)
Untitled Sony soviet retro sci-fi horror game 2008–2010 Art director, character and background designer (cancelled)
Shadows of the Damned 2011 Monster designer (unused)
Silent Hill: Downpour 2012 Japanese cover artist
Untitled Silent Hill sequel 2013 Concept artist (cancelled)
NightCry 2016 Creature designer
Untitled PS4 horror game 2016 Creature designer (cancelled)
Untitled PSVR horror game 2016–2017 Art director, creature designer (cancelled)
Metal Gear Survive 2018 Creature designer
World of Tanks 2020 Environment designer
Silent Hill: The Short Message 2024 Creature and otherworld designer
Silent Hill 2 (remake) 2024 Creature designer
Synduality: Echo of Ada 2025 Cradlecoffin and environment modeling: 2D arts

References

  1. ↑ "Konami Releases Masahiro Ito's Art for Japanese Silent Hill: Downpour Cover". My Silent Hill. 12 December 2012. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "Gallery of Masahiro Ito". Archived from the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
  3. ↑ "'The Grudge' Director Made the 'NightCry' Teaser for Free". Bloody Disgusting. 13 January 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  4. ↑ @adsk4 (November 28, 2012). "@IceTubesCoD Yes. If he were to demand it" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ↑ "'NightCry' Monster Art from Pyramid Head Creator Masahiro Ito". Bloody Disgusting. 5 January 2015. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
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