Sato was born and raised in
Tokyo,
Japan. Sato began studying Art at
Tama Art University in 1992 and in 1996 received his bachelor's degree in
oil painting. When Sato started working on serious games, he said, "I feel that games are being standardized into only a few formats lately: FPS, RTS, MMO, 3rd Person Action and Sports. There's a tendency to create the same games over and over with only a visual upgrade. And the only thing artists are supposed to do is "be professional" and gift-wrap the same game elements with a pretty new skin." In 2011 he received the Advanced Character Animation degree. Sato has been employed at
Nintendo since February 2012 working as a visual producer. ==Works==