Makoto Shinkai

Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese graphic designer, illutstrator and a film director. He was born in 1973 and went to shuo university in Japan for his studies. He started his career on 1994 after he graduated. he works for 5 years at falcom, a game company doing short movie clip and making game websites. Then in 1999 he made a short clip around 5 minutes titled "She and Her Cat". The animation won a grand pize in an animation contest and then in 2000 he started to think to start to his own movie, "Voices of a Distant Star" and followed by "The Place Promise in Early Days" in 2004. He take a rest to London in 2008 and then made another film "children who chase lost voice in the deep" that was released in 2011 was quite famous. and
He was called "the Next Miyazaki" since he does anime movie just like Hayao Miyazaki. I like his art a lot, the last movie that he made "Gardens of Words" has a very nice animation. Especially how he does the rain effect since usually people made rain effect just by using straight lines in same direction, but Shinkai made in like natural rain where the raindrops goes in random direction and he made the splash effect on the ground with water effects.