California's AM2 - Host Designer Toshihiro Kawamoto

The AM2 convention announced taking place Friday that it will congregation the inexhaustible character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto as a Guest of Honor this year. AM2 will hurry starting June 15 to June 17 by the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

A co-founder of the BONES animation studio, Kawamoto is paramount known as the animation director and character designer for Cowboy Bebop and Consume's Rain. His new designer credits contain Cell phone Costume Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory and Golden Young man. He also served as a crucial computer graphics director for Sword of the Stranger, Escaflowne: The Movie, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Eureka Seven. His career as an animator includes titles such as the formerly Transportable Suit Gundam series in 1979, Nadia - Clandestine of Blue Run, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

He recently served as the chief animation director for Heroman, the superhero anime series from BONES and American comic forge Stan Lee. He then designed the typeset and oversaw the animation for BONES' six-part film string Towa no Quon last year.