Akihito IKEDA

Akihito Ikeda is a Japanese artist working in the cinema industry. He is a special effects makeup artist. He won first prize in the Avant-Garde category at the Make-up Artist Trade Show in 1999. He started as a special effects makeup artist on Hulk (2003) and The Island (2005), which allowed him to gain strong recognition for his artistic vision in the industry. He worked as a character designer on The Hunger Games movie in 2012, in 2013 as a prosthetics and animatronics technician on Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013), and then as head makeup artist on Deadpool 2 (2018).

You can discover his creations in the book Heart of Art, which features his extraordinary work and artistic vision, melding fantasy with Japanese culture and mythology.