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Masahiro Ito was born in Saitama, Japan in 1972 and later graduated from the graphic design department of Tama Art University.
Early Pyramid Head Art
In 1997 he joined Konami to design the backgrounds and creatures in Silent Hill. His disturbing creations continued in Silent Hill 2 in which he was art director in addition to creating all of the creature designs, models and motions. It was in this game that Ito designed his most popular creation - Pyramid Head.
His last major input at the company was in Silent Hill 3 where he reprised his role as art director as well as the creature design, models and motion in addition to again designing and modelling the backgrounds.
Header image: "Опорный Пункт (Strong point)" by Masahiro Ito (WARNING: Some of the other images on Ito's Pixiv account are not safe for most work places).
Article image 1: Silent Hill 2: Making of Alchemists of Emotion, DVD, Konami of Europe GmbH, Tokyo Japan. Directed by Nicolas Beuglet. Produced by Fun TV.
-- Masahiro Ito on Twitter after seeing the below screenshot comparison off the Silent Hill HD Collection against the original images from Silent Hill 2. The HD version is missing the fog effects which exposes the edge of the game world.