Ilya Kuvshinov (born 20 February 1990) is a

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illustrator based in Tokyo, Japan. He created the character designs for '' Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045'' and ''

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'' (2019).

Early life

Kuvshinov was born in

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(now

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), where he worked in the video game industry and pursued character design on the side. Kuvshinov moved to Japan around 2015 to work full-time on anime.

Career

He is popular on Instagram, where he had 2 million followers as of 2022.

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hosted a

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virtual exhibition of Kuvshinov's illustrations in May 2019 and PIE published an artbook of his illustrations later that year. The Japanese fashion magazine '' An An'' featured his depiction of ''

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in July 2020. He designed the characters for the 2024

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''Guns Undarkness'' by Shoji Meguro.

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* 1990 births Living people 21st-century Japanese artists 21st-century Russian male artists Ghost in the Shell anime and manga Russian expatriates in Japan 21st-century Japanese illustrators 21st-century Russian illustrators Russian character designers {{illustrator-stub