Kaori Hamura

Kaori Hamura is an artist and illustrator, has many TV and film credits, including MTV's Beavis and Butt-head, MTV Downtown, Daria and Celebrity Death Match, and TNN/Nickelodeon's Gary the Rat. She also created MTV's Video Music Award packaging animation and MTV2 Station I.D.. She has done numerous magazine illustrations for New York Press, Time Out, Interview magazine, Mademoiselle, RayGun, COSMOgirl! and others. She has also done T-shirt designs for Anna Sui, Patricia Field, and Liquid Sky Records.

Hamura was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1993. Her pilot animation, Bootie Boogie, was aired on Oxygen. Bootie Boogie has won a Silver Award for The Society of Illustrators' Annual Awards 2003 in Los Angeles. She began to develop children's book projects and established a creative company, Moss Moon Studio, with Bill Long.