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Kagaya Yutaka

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The Great Digital Artist
Kagaya Yutaka
加賀屋豊
Born
Kagaya Yutaka

5 April 1968
NationalityJapanese
Known forArt
Notable workDigital Art
WebsiteKagayastudio.com

Kagaya Yutaka (かがやゆたか, born 1968 in Saitama) is a Japanese digital artist, illustrator and photographer who is known for painting elaborately detailed and spectacularly colored images of space and utopian worlds.

Biography

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Kagaya Yutaka born in Saitama, north of Tokyo(Japan). He studied and graduated from the Tokyo Designer Gakuin College. He then became an illustrator for the astronomy magazine Hoshi Navi.[2]

The International Astronomical Union named the asteroid number 11949 after Kagaya Yutaka in 2003.[2]

Style

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His images often include elements with a luminous quality. Some of his favorite subjects are astronomy and visions of utopian worlds.[2]

His most famous works focus on three main topics: Celestial Exploring, Galactic Railroad and Starry Tales. Kagaya really likes the night sky with stars and he often uses the blue color in his work.

Filmography

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  • Fantasy Railroad in the Stars (銀河鉄道の夜) with Kenji Miyazawa (DVD, 2007). The DVD features the story of a boy dreaming of travelling by train through the Milky Way, and the story is narrated by the voice actress Kuwashima Houko.

Bibliography

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  • The Encyclopedia of the Four Seasons

References

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  1. ^ "Kagaya yutaka". www.librarising.com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Meet the artist : Kagaya Yutaka, Newtechmag.net, 3 March 2022

External sources

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