Masahiro Ito is among the best-known names when it comes to video game art. Ito was the art director for Silent Hill 1, 2 and 3 and a creature designer on the recent Silent Hill 2 Remake.
Ito is an active user on X, and has produced a couple of famous posts over the years. In a recent Q&A held for his followers, Ito talked about some of his background and where his life was when he was working on the original Silent Hill (thanks, PC Gamer).
"I wanted to learn oil painting, but majored in graphic design at my art university, studying oil on my own. I was born in a needy family, I had no money to buy oil colours/mediums, so I was picking them up on the corridors. I learned 3D modelling and animation developing the first Silent Hill," Ito wrote. "However, I could model/build all of the creatures and all their animations by Silent Hill 2, and I also thought of all of Pyramid Head's cutscenes and built them by myself. Practice makes perfect."
He then goes on to speak about his love life, which was nonexistent because he was investing all his time...
