From: shogun@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Mike M. Tatsugawa)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Anime Expo presents:  Guest of Honor #1, Scott Frazier
Date: 13 Dec 92 01:15:58 GMT
Organization: The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation

The following is an extensive list of the work done by Anime Expo's
first Guest of Honor.  (They are in alphabetical order right now.)
This is to give fans an idea of the work of our GoH's so that the fans
at Expo know what to expect at the convention.

  The List
  This is what I can remember and what I could dig up from
records I have here in Bangkok.  Who know what I forgot?
  * = did a significant part of
   ~ = didn't do a whole lot on (1 -10 cuts)
Cel check:
  Bubblegum Crash 1-3* (Did most of #3 by myself)
  Totoi *
  Shonen Ashibe ~
  Mikan
  Ahiru no Quack ~
  Jyuushin Raiger
  
Painter:
  Baseball thing ~
  Ahiru no Quack ~
  Booken Shite Mo Ii Goro
  Buchigiri #3 (~), #4
  Ginga Eiyu Densetsu
  Shurato (OVA)
  Starship Troopers
  Gummi Bears ~
  Orange Road TV series ~
  
BG:
  Darkwing Duck
  Yawara ~
  Moldiver
 
Genga/Layouts:
  Cinderella Express

Doga:
  Shonen Ashibe *
  Totoi
  Bubblegum Crash*
  Genocyber
  Patlabor #4, #6 (Original OVA series)
  Otoko Jyuko ~
  Jyuushin Raiger
  Transformers Victory  ~
  Starship Troopers ~
  Baoh ~
  Majo no Takyuubin (Kiki's Delivery Service) ~
  Utsunomiko (movie) ~
  Animation bits for Tokoro Jyoji's variety show
  
Doga Check:
  Licca
  Princess Army ~
  Bubblegum Crash*
  Totoi*
  Shonen Ashibe
  Jyuushin Raiger
  Transformers Victory

  Production:
  Hoshi Neko Full House*
  Koiko No Mainichi*
  Locke the Superman OVA (First)
  Karate Jigoku Hen ~
  Sam &  Chip's Big Racing Adventure (for Sanrio) ~
  Mumako
  RikiOh 2*
  Bubblegum Crash*
  Buchigiri #3 (~), #4
  
  Iroshite:
  Ginga Eiyu Densetsu calendar*
  Booken Shite Mo Ii Goro*
  Kujakuo 2*

Camera:
  Ranma 1/2 #2
  Himitsu no Akochan ~
  Patlabor #7*
  Shonen Bosozoku #5
  Venus Wars (retakes) ~
  Mukashii Banashi
  Akuma-kun ~

TAO
  Animation (doga), Cel painting
  Genocyber*
  Macross II
  Mikan
  Moldiver *

Incidental: 
  Assisted directors on Spiral Zone for the last few episodes.
  Did production designs for animation for Frank Herbert's Green
Brain (not produced)
  Production, character design, script for Tears of Illandra (not
produced)

  I helped some (did some retakes, carried some cuts around in
the car, set some stuff up, helped a little here and there) on
the following:
  Lodoss (BG)
  Download (BG)
  Slow Step (Production)
  Top o Nerai (Doga)
  Gundam F91 (Doga, Paint)
  Ginga Eiyu Densetsu (Production)
  Hobberdy Dick (TV series) (Production)
  Kumon (TV) (BG)
  Yadamon (TV) (BG)
  Columbus (TV) (Paint, Production)
  Gaiearth (BG)
  Border (OVA) (Production)
  Hard & Loose (OVA) (Paint, Production)
  Yujin OVA #2 (Paint) 
  Jingi (OVA) (Paint)
  Elicia (OVA) (Carried some cels from Thailand to Japan - oh
boy.)
  Mezon Ikkoku (TV) (Paint - and didn't even know it!)
 I painted 2 of the cels for 2 of Mikimoto's illustrations that
appeared in NewType. (Oh hurray.)
  Did 2 radio commercials for the animation school I went to.  
  Computer/Video stuff:
  Character designs for TECMO World Cup Soccer (Nintendo)
  Animation check for TECMO Superbowl (Nintendo)
  Characters, script, illustrations for Raccoon Girls computer
game (NEC, Epson, FM TOWNS) (unfinished)
  Designed and programmed the first wholly computerized
production control system in Japan.  

  Wrote & drew manga published in a Thai comics magazine.

  Teaching:  (This is where I really do excel)
  Wrote a Trace & Paint textbook and a   Doga Textbook.  Both are
still used by leading studios (AIC, Artland, Toei, Pierrot,
Visual 80, Madhouse) and the Doga book is being used at the
Yoyogi Animation school.

 Taught animation, cel painting (little bit of camera) in:
 China (Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou)
 Korea (South)
 Japan
 Thailand
 Vietnam

  Built KAB  (awarded Best New Company of Thailand 1990)
  Built TAO (rated as the #1 paint subcontractor in Asia)

 A brief history:
  First went to Japan in August '86 on Ladera Travel's
Japanimation Tour.  Was accepted to study at Kokusai Animation
Kenkyuujyou (International Animation Institute) in March of '87.
Moved to Japan on April 17, 1987.  Entered Aoyama Nihongo Gakuin
(Aoyama Japanese Language Academy) and studied there for 7
months. (Most of my Japanese is self-taught.) Went to work fro
Visual 80 as a assistant to the director of Spiral Zone (Mr.
Georges Grammat) in May and worked there until October. 
Transferred into Animation School in October with "All aspects of
the production of animation" as my major, and began to study
inbetweening (doga).  In November went to work for Samurai Steak
(I did not make that name up!) in Azabu and washed dishes and
helped in the kitchen at night.
  Studied animation, cel painting, computer colored animation and
camera in school and about halfway through the course I was hired
as a teacher by the school.  Taught in the People's Republic of
China at Hangzhou Dong Hua in Hangzhou for a few months then
returned to Japan.  Taught in Korea for a little while. Came back
and I didn't have an apartment so I lived in the cel painting
classroom.  Worked in a camera company (T. Nishimura) briefly. 
Starved. Got a tiny prewar apartment over a tofu factory. Did
some more animation and painting, mostly on work from Studio
Look. Starved. Went to work for Top Gun (cel painting studio) in
May, 1989 as a painter and courier for work to China.  Did some
color coordination (iroshite) and was in China in June when the
Tiananmen massacre happened (and was part of another massacre in
Nanjing).  Returned to Japan where my job had evaporated and went
to work for Artland as a Production Assistant.  Japanese
government would not (still won't) issue a work visa for
animation so I had to go back to the US for a long while and wait
for endless processing.
  Eventually returned to Tokyo and married Inoue Eko (who had put
up with me for about  years and decided to extend it to a
lifetime.)  Went back to work in Artland's production department.
Was assigned to build KAB (Kitty Animation Bangkok) studio for
Kitty-Artland joint venture (kind of) and did the whole studio by
hand.  Designed the desks, selected the paint, trained the whole
paint and animation staff, set up the production system,
everything.  Mostly by myself.  KAB was named the best Trace &
Paint subcontractor in Asia and won one of  3 very prestigious
Best New Company In Thailand 1990 awards.  Went back and forth
from Japan to Thailand until March '91 when I returned full time
to Artland's production department.  Taught cel painting in a
couple of companies in China.  Did research for opening animation
company in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and
Laos. Worked at Atelier BWCA doing backgrounds, from June '91 -
January '92 along with all sorts of (mostly production) work at
Artland.  Opened my own company TAO Corporation Limited on March
9, 1992 in Bangkok.

  Achievements of (debatable)  value
  Only foreigner to ever work Production in Japan  (This is truly
a very dramatic first of which I am quite proud.)
  First foreigner to ever be an Enshitsu Jyoushi (Director's
Assistant) in Japan
  First non-Japanese to ever teach the art of Japanese animation
as a professional teacher.
  First foreigner to ever teach or work at an animation school in
Japan.
  First foreigner to build his/her own Japanese animation studio
(yeah, so it's in Thailand...)
  First animator to be shot by the Chinese army.  (Not too proud
of this...)
  I say "first" on these and  so far it is "only" as well.
-- 
Mike Tatsugawa, AKA shogun: The busiest anime fan in the world!
President, SPJA:  2425 B Channing, Suite 684, Brk, CA 94704
Publicity Coordinator, Anime Expo '93