Ozawa Tadashi is an animator. He was born in Nakashibetsu, a town in Hokkaido Prefecture, and graduated from the animation department at Tokyo Designer Gakuin.
As a staff member of studio Top Craft, he was in charge of in-between animation check for Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. After Top Craft was renamed as Studio Ghibli, he remained in the company and took part in creation of such movies as Laputa: Castle in the Sky and Grave of the Fireflies. After working for Ghibli, he moved to studio Madhouse and worked on many of their titles while simultaneously being active as a lecturer at Vantan Academy. Later, he founded his own studio Ozawa Design Works.
In recent years, he has been active as a writer and educator, writing articles for CGWORLD magazine and books on character design.
(Source: AniDB)
