Yoichi Kotabe: Difference between revisions

Yoichi Kotabe is currently active as a freelancer. He holds the post of a lecturer at Toei Animation Institute.<ref name="anido">[http://www.anido.com/html-e/kotabe-e.html Yoichi Kotabe: Biographical Notes at Anido]</ref> In 2008, a book titled ''Yoichi Kotabe: Legendary Animator - His Animated Drawings'' was released in Japanese, with a few contents also being in English.<ref name="anido_book">[http://www.anido.com/publication/books/113?lang=en ''Yoichi Kotabe: Legendary Animator - His Animated Drawings'' at Anido]</ref> It also includes information on Nintendo-related works of him.<ref name="iwata_asks5">[http://www.nintendodsi.com/iwata-asks-chapter.jsp?interviewId=1&volumeId=8&chapterId=5 Iwata Asks: Nintendo DSi, Volume 8 - Yoichi Kotabe (page 5) at NintendoDSi.com]</ref> In the same year an "[[Satoru Iwata|Iwata]] Asks" interview was held with Yoichi Kotabe, Shigeru Miyamoto and Yoshiaki Koizumi. It focused on Yoichi Kotabe himself as well as the application ''[[wikipedia:Flipnote Studio|Flipnote Studio]]'' for the [[Nintendo DS|Nintendo DSi]]. Kotabe created four animations with ''Flipnote Studio'', including one of Mario, which were all made available at the Flipnote Hatena website.<ref name="hatena">[http://flipnote.hatena.com/0B8D56BA1BD441B8@DSi/ Yoichi Kotabe at Flipnote Hatena]</ref> He returned to Nintendo in 2011, designing Peach's letters in ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]''. He also designed 2D artworks used as sprites in ''[[Mario Party: Star Rush]]'' and ''[[Mario Party: The Top 100]]''.{{ref needed}}