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| DKW
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|  "Re(1):KOF's new art."
, posted Thu 29 Aug 01:31
The concept portraits (the ones with the red backgrounds) are pretty good. It seems that Nona or whoever the artist was wanted a more gritty, realistic look, and it definitely works. (DDR and Power Stone have "anime style" characters. KOF does not.) I especially like Athena; her uni is a lot more sensible than in recent years, and she looks more mature, more focused, more...dare I say it...womanly. Which, considering that she's about, oh, 24 now, is about damn time (I will hear none of this "eternal youth due to artist laziness" nonsense.) The longer hair suits her better, too.
As for the actual in-game graphics...well, they're good for the Neo Geo, which admittely isn't saying much nowadays. At least the character portraits look a lot better than in '01...admittedly, they'd almost have to be.
All right! Looks like the artwork gets a passing grade. Definitely nothing to sneeze at, especially now.
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| Zyzyfer 574th Post
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|  "Re(3):KOF's new art."
, posted Thu 29 Aug 02:21
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whoa there! i'm both anti-nona and anti-shinkiro. both of their styles aren't attractive to me. kof2k has the best art imo, and whoever the artist was should be doing the game art for 2k2.
what, that ingame work that showed the characters doing moves in their winquotes? or the ingame credits/intro drawings? i didn't really think 2k looked that pleasing, myself...i prefered '98 and '99 for ingame art. '98 had good winquote art and '99 had good character select art.
nona's work works sometimes, and doesn't work other times. but i like the fact that nona seems to pay attention to the characters more. whereas shinkiro drew very stiff people who, if put in a group, looked like four hohums standing around, this stuff is interesting. yuri's dancing in tune to her butt, iori looks like the dorky nerd that he is(and is playing pocket pool to boot), and ANYBODY who knows how joe operates would totally understand why he's holding his nuts. they're too big for the picture.
there's some bad art too, like pregnant mature and devil yamazaki, even gimpy psycho-looking maxima. but i mean...if they at least have a little life to them, and i don't just mean "oh look, i'm doing one of my moves!", i'm all for taking a few losses. especially for joe keepin' it real like that. he do me proud.
but there does seem to be some sort of perversion thing goin' in those pics. ex:
http://www.planetps2.com/mmcafe/pics02/kof2002-set1-66-vg-02.jpg
???? naughty yashiro...
random blurb:
http://www.planetps2.com/mmcafe/pics02/kof2002-set1-62-bw-02.jpg
korea stage
that big building is the kli63 building
to the left are mountains(the neat thing about seoul is you can see mountains all over the place, despite it being such a big city)
to the right are apartments
they're fighting kinda sorta on the han river
I don't mind the sun sometimes the image as it shows
I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look through other peoples' eyes...
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| Muchiko
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| "Comparison" , posted Thu 29 Aug 06:00
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what, that ingame work that showed the characters doing moves in their winquotes? or the ingame credits/intro drawings? i didn't really think 2k looked that pleasing, myself...i prefered '98 and '99 for ingame art. '98 had good winquote art and '99 had good character select art.
When it comes to in-game art, I don't think anything can beat 2000's (all select portraits, intros, endings, and win quotes are perfect); however, I need to see the rest of 2002 artwork first to see who comes first in best game art. But I doubt it will beat 2000; I think 2002's will be second best.
Anyone know who does the in-game arts?
Selection screen, I think '02 is the best. Best music for that is '96.
Oh, I really hate '02 graphic interface (lifebar/etc.). 2001 or 2000 are a lot better. '02 might be the worst ever... Okay, maybe not worst, but I don't like the fonts. ^_^
"Character illustrations are done by Nona- the same artist as KOF2001, main illustrations are done by Buriki-One artist Hiroaki."
What is meant by main illustrations? All illustrations except char illustrations? Hiroaki is my favorite SNK artist. I know his style. The poster with the slogan "KOF'02 BE THE FIGHTER!" is his work. Notice how the portraits of those six Hakkesshu's and Billy looked... tons better than Nona's. Maybe except Shermie though.
I hate Shinkiro's art because he tries to make the characters look too realistic. Nona has some good and bad illustrations... the good one are the one with good facials; Kim/Angel/Mary/Mai/Athena are among the best. IMHO. I prefer Nona over Shinkiro anyday.
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and ANYBODY who knows how joe operates would totally understand why he's holding his nuts. they're too big for the picture.
I'm sure you know. ^_^ I heard he has the same taunt though... it will probably be in his intro or win pose like 2001.
Background Blurb:
If you look at the stage where you see Mr. Big and Krauser, you'll notice that there are two different backgrounds for that same stage. One, you see Krauser and Big on the tower in the back. Two, you see Mr. Big next to the fighters as if the fighters moved to the tower. Could there be double backgrounds per stage?
After looking at the backgrounds again, there are more than one backgrounds per stage. Most of them are just night and day effects though, similar to '98 style. I wish they kept '94-'95 background intros effect though... that would rock.
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| Zyzyfer 584th Post
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| "Re(7):KOF's new art." , posted Fri 30 Aug 01:43
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wait a second...lacked shading? childish? ugly? you must be talking about 2k1's ingame art. allow me to refresh anyone's memory with a comparison of kyo's art in '99, 2k, and 2k1 (i haven't played 2k1 so i hope the pics are correct).
what i love about 2k's victory art is that all the characters are doing an action, rather than standing there trying to look cool. i respect your opinion though, everyone's got their own tastes, and i agree with you about bao 
when ya put it on a background, and the eyes are allowed to examine it fully, yea, 2k stuff does look better that '99. but from my experiences playing, i find '99 to be in the standard(if a little so-so) kof style, while 2k looked a bit...off. maybe it's not the shading. but something makes it look...not like kof art.
anyways, yea 2k had the action art, but it seems like people see that and praise it to the heavens. like ya said though, different strokes for different folks.
I don't mind the sun sometimes the image as it shows
I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look through other peoples' eyes...
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