I wrote a bit before about Hiroyuki Yamashita and his distintive style in the Naruto Shippuuden series. However, Yamashita has been risen a bit more within the ranks on this project since then. He was credited with doing some Puppet Designs for Naruto Shippuden: The Lost Tower-- which is directed by Masahiko Murata who's done quite a bit of notable episodes on the series himself. And now it's been confirmed that he's going to actually be an animation director on the actual show.
Episode 178 preview:
The traits from Yamashita sans the triangle swords are all here to marvel at. Look at the mouths of Iruka and those three ninja. The shape and snappy timing of their lips flapping seems like they're drawn by Yamashita himself (perhaps he did or maybe he corrected a great deal of this scene). Naruto's arm while he's resting on Iruka is more squarish and flatter. In the same shot you can see that Kakashi's face is more slimmer than usual and the timing to his mouth movement is very similar to the previous scene I mentioned.
The only shots that can contain animation in this preview that don't look like the were corrected by Yamashita is the shot of Choji and Shikamauru and the latter one of the candle and Jugo talking. Yasuhiko Kanezuka is the co-animation director along with Yamashita--he's not too shabby himself, just not exactly doing exciting animation like Yamashita seems destined to do. Once the episode comes out it'll be interesting to see just how much of an influence Yamashita will have in his debut as an animation director.
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