Yasuko Watanabe (渡辺康子) is a Japanese color designer and colorist.
Early life
Watanabe was part of her high school's anime research club when she found a particular interest in the use of colors in anime and decided to get a job as a colorist in the industry.[2] After graduating high school, she went to Yoyogi Animation Academy and graduated in 2000.[2]
Career
She joined Shaft the year as a cel-colorist (analog) and digital colorist.[1] Much of her early work consisted of doing the coloring for outsources given to Shaft, before gradually shifting into in-house production as Shaft itself shifted to in-house production. In 2004, Shaft split its digital coloring and compositing teams into their own department, Digital@Shaft, which Watanabe became a part of. Her first work as a color designer was also an outsource, however: Shattered Angels