Shigeru Okada

Shigeru Okada

Nascimento : 1971-03-01, Saitama, Japan

História

Shigeru Okada started to make stop motion animation with 8mm film in a movie club when he was a university student. After graduation from university, Shigeru Okada worked as system engineer, but kept making independent stop motion animation. He started to work as freelance stop motion animator at the age of 30. He animated many characters of TV programs and commercial films, and holds workshops about stop motion animation.

Perfil

Shigeru Okada

Filmes

Head Tray
Writer
A clay animation horror short.
Head Tray
Animation
A clay animation horror short.
Head Tray
Director
A clay animation horror short.
Deform
Director
The plot concerns 10 college students who, as part of a personal project, investigate an abandoned building that was recently seen with a mysterious white, glowing pillar on it. However, things rapidly get out of hand, because whatever is in there has... plans for them.
Deformed  Gecko
Animation
The story is centered on a family living in a small village that consist of a man named Hikobei, his wife, and three daughters where a Gecko witnesses the three daughter acting so selfish and always fighting over trivial things causing it to become upset and start to blacken until the youngest daughter accidentally kills when she was pushed and fell on it. One night the dead gecko slips into the water supply where the youngest daughter unsuspectingly swallows and slowly transform into a Gecko, but that is only the beginning as each night one family member would be turned into and become a gecko.
Deformed  Gecko
Director
The story is centered on a family living in a small village that consist of a man named Hikobei, his wife, and three daughters where a Gecko witnesses the three daughter acting so selfish and always fighting over trivial things causing it to become upset and start to blacken until the youngest daughter accidentally kills when she was pushed and fell on it. One night the dead gecko slips into the water supply where the youngest daughter unsuspectingly swallows and slowly transform into a Gecko, but that is only the beginning as each night one family member would be turned into and become a gecko.
Saka Men
Animation
A homeless thief takes the sacred rope from a bolder to cover a bloody wound, not realising what evil it will unleash.
Saka Men
Writer
A homeless thief takes the sacred rope from a bolder to cover a bloody wound, not realising what evil it will unleash.
Saka Men
Director
A homeless thief takes the sacred rope from a bolder to cover a bloody wound, not realising what evil it will unleash.
The Collected Animations of ICAF (2001-2006)
Director
A collection of the best entries shown at the annual Inter-College Animation Festival from 2001 to 2006. For many animation students in Japan participating in the festival is a chance to start their professional careers. The entries include works made using various animation techniques, including CGI and stop-motion. Taku Furukawa, Katayama Masahiro and Kihune Tokumitsu can be found among the judges of the festival.
Prison Gambler
Executive Producer
A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series Gambler / Bakuto directed by Shigehiro Ozawa.