Masahiro Ito

Ito worked as background and monster designer on the survival horror video game Silent Hill in 1999. He was the art director for its sequel, Silent Hill 2 (2001), working on both the original game and its reissue Restless Dreams, as well as being the monster designer and modeler. Ito was the art director again in Silent Hill 3 (2003), as well as being a monster designer and modeler, background designer and modeler, drama camera designer, CGI movie editor. Ito and fellow Team Silent scriptwriter Hiroyuki Owaku went on to work together on Silent Hill: Cage of Cradle (2006) and Silent Hill: Double under Dusk (2007), digital mangas published by Konami, downloadable for cell-phones and only available in Japan. He maintains a personal website, complete with an online gallery of his Silent Hill–oriented artwork. Ito designed the cover art for the Japanese release of Silent Hill: Downpour (2012). In 2012, Masahiro Ito stated on his Twitter that he would be willing to work on another Silent Hill game with Hideo Kojima. In 2016 he worked with Hifumi Kono and Takashi Shimizu on the video game NightCry featuring Kiyoishi Arai (Final Fantasy) for visuals, design and in image board team.

• Title — Year — Role • Silent Hill — 1999 — Background and monster designer • Silent Hill 2 — 2001 — Art director, monster designer and modeler • Fukuro — 2001 — Creature designer and modeler • Silent Hill: Arcade — 2001–2002 — Art director (cancelled) • Silent Hill 3 — 2003 — Art director, monster designer and modeler, background designer and modeler, drama camera designer, CGI movie editor • Untitled GTA-style game — 2003–2006 — Art director, lead animator and motion designer (cancelled) • Silent Hill: Dying Inside — 2004 — Alternate cover artist (volume 3) • Silent Hill: The Novel — 2006 — Illustrator • Silent Hill: Cage of Cradle — 2006 — Illustrator • Silent Hill 2: The Novel — 2006 — Illustrator • Silent Hill: Double under Dusk — 2007 — Illustrator • Silent Hill: The Arcade — 2007 — Illustrator • Silent Hill 3: The Novel — 2007 — Illustrator • Silent Hill: Origins — 2008 — Japanese soundtrack cover artist • White Hunter — 2008 — Illustrator, writer • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots — 2008 — Painter • Silent Hill: Homecoming — 2008 — Japanese cover artist (cancelled) • Untitled Sony soviet retro sci-fi horror game — 2008–2010 — Art director, character and background designer (cancelled) • Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection — 2009 — Tank designer • Shadows of the Damned — 2011 — Monster designer (unused) • Silent Hill: Downpour — 2012 — Japanese cover artist • Untitled Silent Hill sequel — 2013 — Concept artist (cancelled) • Untitled PSVR horror game — 2015–2017 — Art director, creature designer (cancelled) • NightCry — 2016 — Creature designer • Let It Die — 2016 — Character designer • Untitled PS4 horror game — 2016 — Creature designer (cancelled) • Metal Gear Survive — 2018 — Creature designer • Human Lost — 2019 — Creature designer • World of Tanks — 2020 — Environment designer • Silent Hill: The Short Message — 2024 — Creature and otherworld designer • Silent Hill 2 (remake) — 2024 — Creature designer • Synduality: Echo of Ada — 2025 — Cradlecoffin and environment modeling: 2D arts