Mateusz Urbanowicz: ‘Miyazaki impressed me to place the viewers first’

Mateusz Urbanowicz: ‘Miyazaki impressed me to place the viewers first’

Mateusz Urbanowicz, 38, is an artist and animator from Bytom, Poland, who now lives in Chiba Prefecture. He labored on background artwork for anime resembling “Area Dandy” and “Your Title.” Since leaving a full-time profession in animation, Urbanowicz has launched a number of artwork books together with “Imaginary Storefronts,” his newest publication that explores the great thing about mundane storefronts in Japanese neighborhoods. 1. What spark…