Masaaki Iwane

Masaaki Iwane (岩根雅明 Iwane Masaaki; born August 13, 1965) is one of the founding animation directors for the Pokémon anime. For almost the entirety of his career, he has been a traditional animator, with his first ever fully digitally animated episode in both the layout and key animation stages being HZ041.^[1]

Animation credits

Credits are listed in order of most senior role, then in order of their release.

See TV episodes animation directed by Masaaki Iwane

Animation Director

• Mewtwo Returns

Key Animation

• Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
• Pokémon Heroes: Latios & Latias
• Pokémon: Paldean Winds
  • Breathe In^[2]

Gallery

Key frames

This is a collection of key frames drawn by Iwane. Iwane solo animates the majority of his episodes on the series.^[3]

HZ015

HZ023

HZ035

External links

• Masaaki Iwane's personal website (Japanese) - Archived
• Pokeani's animation director page for Masaaki Iwane (Japanese) - Archived
• Masaaki Iwane's Twitter account (Japanese)

References