Kekai Kotaki works for Guild Wars 2 as a lead concept artist at Arena Net.
You can find Kekai’s work at his site, http://www.kekaiart.com/
It doesn’t say which art school Kekai attended.
Kekai started out by doing texture art for the Guild Wars Franchise.
The advice that you can get from Kekai, is that he worked hard to get where he is today on being a lead concept artist. He believes that hard work and luck will help you get to where you want to be.
Yoshinori Kitase works for Square Enix and he is a game director and producer.
His current status at the company is that he is the manager of the 1st Production Department.
You can check the main Square Enix website where he produced several of the games there like one of my favorites, Final Fantasy X-2.
Yoshinori earned his degree in cinema from the Nihon University College of Art, and then he worked for a small animation studio. Later on he chose to work for Square Enix worked on past Final Fantasies like 6, 7, 8. His most recent work would be 10, 10-2, 13, and recently released 13-2.
Yoshinori believes that it is best to create a game where the player engages into the story with character before they get involved with the elements of game play.
Hayao Miyazaki is a film director and animator. He cofounded Studio Ghibli, and works with Isao Takahata.
Hayao attended different schools though out his life, and knew his passion in high school. He drew tanks and planes at first and then he had to conquer the human form. He started out working as an in between artist for Toei Animation. Several years later he became a chief animator, concept artist, and scene designer for a film.
He got to where he is today by creating several amazing titles in the late 80s till today, and with the cofounding of Studio Ghibli.
Hayao like to stick to the fundamentals for his animations, and that is what he believes in. Staying true to the roots.
