Shingo Tamagawa

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Shingo Tamagawa is a Japanese YouTuber who posts hand drawn animations to his channel.
==About==
As a child, Tamagawa discovered a love of and a talent for drawing, and by the time he had reached high school he discovered the works of Hayao Miyazaki and Hideaki Anno, both of whom would become major influences on his animation style,ComicCon: Shingo Tamagawa Reveals His Inspiration and Intent Behind ‘Puparia’ where he also learned how animation is dependant on the director and inspired him to work in animation someday. Having graduated from art school, Tamagawa decided to make a go of working in the animation industry and began to train to work in the industry, dropping out of graduate school in order to join the industry.
Joining Sunrise Animation Studio in 2010, Tamagawa worked as an animator for series such as Mobile Suit Gundam AGEAnime News Network: Shingo TAMAGAWA and Kabaneri of the Iron FortressIMDb: Shingo Tamagawa, however by 2015 he began to feel as if he was losing his passion as he began to feel that working in the animation industry would make him start to hate his own work, so he decided to simply stop drawing, and for eighteen months he didn't draw a single thing and spent his time reading and taking walks. Yet it was during this period where he began to formulate his own ideas about work of his own, which rekindled his interest in working as an animator, but this time he wished to be fully independent rather than beholden to the animation industry.
==PUPARIA==
Tamagawa came to wider attention in late 2020 when his first short, PUPARIA, was uploaded to his YouTube channel.
The concept behind the short comes from two things: the chrysalis of a butterfly, which inspired the short's title, and Tamagawa's belief that the values that shaped the world are beginning to gradually fade away and the things that people used to be able to rely upon are beginning to collapse, which leaves people unsure of what the future holds for them while also being unable to show who they are.
PUPARIA became a painstaking project taking three years to complete, with Tamagawa drawing and colouring every single frame by hand and refusing to use CG as he believes the increasing reliance on CG in the anime industry comes at the cost of audience engagement, likening the art style he used to manga due to the focus on the various characters' facial expressions. Tamagawa also insisted on making it himself, partly as he was highly doubtful that any other studio would be interested in making it and partly because he didn't want to rope other people into the project in case it didn't pan out as he hoped, which gave Tamagawa the benefit of putting his own personal stamp on the project.YouTube: Shingo Tamagawa - Three Minutes, Three Years: Making Puparia
In spite of the heavy workload, Tamagawa realised that creating PUPARIA on his own allowed him to gain a better understanding of what it is to be a director in animation, and also allowed him to create his work honestly. Luckily for Tamagawa, one of the producers at Sunrise allowed him to use the Sunrise studio to work on PUPARIA as long as he was willing to help out the studio from time to time, which Tamagawa is thankful for as he felt that working from home sometimes led to him getting stuck, and working for Sunrise also helped the project financially as Tamagawa had been living off his savings for the eighteen months where he took a break from the industry.
Tamagawa essentially had to learn on the job what he wanted to, for example when it came to colouring the cells he didn't want to use CG for the aforementioned reasons yet he didn't want to use coloured pencils as they tend to make the colours too heavy, so by trial and error he used different layers of colour in order to create the visuals he wanted.
==Subscriber milestones==
*100,000 subscribers: March 29, 2021
==References==
Category:Animation YouTubers
Category:Art YouTubers
Category:Japanese YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2016