Nobuhiro Sugiyama (杉山 延寛) is a Japanese animator, character designer, and storyboard artist.
Career
Sugiyama joined Shaft in 2001 as an in-between animator while he was interested in drawing a variety of subjects and learning from the industry.[1] By 2003 he was a key animator, and by 2004 an animation director. In 2007, Sugiyama was chosen to design the characters for the studio's adaptation of the Ef visual novel.[2] Sugiyama became one of the studio's primary character designers and chief animation directors and was again given the task of heading the Arakawa Under the Bridge project in 2010.[3] In 2011, Sugiyama was opposite of character designer Asako Nishida in acting as the chief animation director for Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl