Worked on most Ghibli films, Honnêamise , Moribito novel covers.

Studio Ghibli animator Makiko Futaki passed away last Friday, May 13, while being treated for an illness. She was 58. Her close relatives held a private funeral for her.

Futaki began her professional career as an in-between animator in Telecom Animation Film , working on episode #153 of Lupin III: Part II . Before this, she had already been making amateur animation and showing them at the Private Animation Festival (PAF). She first worked with Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata on Jarinko Chie in 1981, and then with Hayao Miyazaki in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind . She has since worked on the majority of Studio Ghibli ‘s films as a freelance key animator, and served as assistant animation director for Tales of Earthsea . She last worked on When Marnie Was There as a key animator.

Apart from Studio Ghibli films, she has also worked as an animator on Royal Space Force – The Wings of Honnêamise , Night on the Galactic Railroad , Akira , and Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai! . She also illustrated the covers of Nahoko Uehashi ‘s Moribito novels.

Source: Netlab, background info from AniPages

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