Range Murata

Doujin Circle: PASTAS ESTAB. Websitehttps://www.pseweb.com/ Twitterhttps://twitter.com/MurataRange Japanese artist and designer known for his unique style heavily influenced by art dco. He is best known for his mechanical and character design work on Last Exilehttps://anilist.co/anime/97/LastExile/ and Blue Submarine No. 6https://anilist.co/anime/1051/BlueSubmarineNo6/. Initially aspiring to be a car designer he attended the Osaka University of Art where he majored in industrial design. However after realizing the retrostyle designs he wanted to work on would be difficult to achieve in real life he dropped out and instead opted to pursue a career at the videogame company Altus where he worked as a parttimer since 1993 mostly contributing character designs and illustrations for the fighting game series Power Instinct under the alias Range. In 1996 inspired by his coworkers he left the company to become a freelance illustrator releasing his first artbook LIKE A BALANCE LIFE shortly after. Outside of releasing planning and editing artbooks and comic anthologies often in collaboration with numerous other artists notable for their distinct art styles as was the case with FLAT and Robot some of his other notable works include fa a designer clothing and fashion accessory line a number of cover illustrations for both Japanese and foreign books and magazines as well as miscellaneous design work for statues and figurines most notably a tiein series for the Robot anthology costume design for the 2005 World Expo in Aichi and character design for the variety show 2.5 Dimensional TV. In 2006 he was given the 37th Seiun Award. Since 2013 he has been teaching at Kyoto Seika Universitys Manga Departments Character Design Course. Artist You Shiinahttps://anilist.co/staff/105062/YouShiina was one of his students.