Anime-Beta TNG

I've looked around a lot and haven't really found any definitive answers. Does anyone here know who usually draws the settei for a show? I'm rather curious as I recently acquired some original Hunter x Hunter settei and am interested in finding out whether I can discover who the artist is.

usually the character designer of the series

heres the only link i could find on settei

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_sheet

obviously its the Western usage but same concept.

I have seen 'some' settei that were drawn by the lead
animator but probably because they were
also the designer.

Does it make a difference what kind of settei they are? Because mine aren't character settei, they're background settei.

Jan Scott Frazier, who worked with Japanese animation studios for quite a while, agrees:

http://www.janscottfrazier.com/articles/jobs/index.htm

See under "Character Designer."

Key's Anime FAQ saith not. I'd guess, though, that even if the character designer has line responsibility, probably s/he has an assistant to clean up the drawings, just as key animators sometimes do roughs while assistants actually execute the gengas.

But that's just an educated guess. Frazier (who often does presentations and workshops at Katsucon) would surely know. You can find a "mailto" link off of the piece given above.

Edit: Frazier also shows something she calls "Art Model Pack" or bijutsusettei and says this is the task of the Art Director, who's also responsible for the "art boards," or sketches you usually get with original backgrounds (though these are usually pretty rough). Interestingly, some (not all) the art boards I got with Tonde Buurin backgrounds are signed in the corner "Kato," which I assume means "Hiromi Kato," the series' Character Designer.

That nailed it for me, sensei. I'd never seen that site before, so thanks for showing me that as well.