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| Gojira 2544th Post
 
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|  "SF20: The Art of Street Fighter" , posted Fri 4 Sep 09:58:
Anyone else pick this up? I happened upon it today; didn't even know it would be out this soon. So I figured I'd write a mini-review for some of the art buffs here.
I own a number of Capcom art books myself - Gamest mooks, All About Capcom, Eternal Challenge - and I still believe this has to be one of the most comprehensive SF illustration collections I've ever seen.
The book is arranged by artist: Akiman, Kinu, CYMK (aka Bengus), Ikeno, Dai-Chan, Edayan, and Shinkirou got the big sections, and a large "Other" section which includes Shoei, Uji, Nishizawa, Maeda and more, hell even Falcoon and Nona have a few pages for the SvC Chaos illustrations, as well as some of Kawano's stuff for Namco x Capcom.
Lots of art with commentary by the artists, many of them fun to read about. For example, Akiman's commentary on the zany "Shadaloo Base" CD insert he did (you've probably seen it, it looks like a toy set with a movie-style pic of Chun Li and Ryu weeping, and there's an illustration of some guy's underwear in the corner): "Officially, they probably wanted me to come up with something really cool, but I kind of went off the track into my own little world of personal parody and most likely disappointed everyone." In addition to these, there are sketches with translated notes, figurine designs, an interview section with each major artist and some other nice extras.
So yes, it's a really impressive collection worthy of the anniversiary title. I thought the Eternal Challenge book was an okay book, but had too much Udon stuff and not enough of the rarely-seen Capcom stuff. This is the opposite, hardly any Udon stuff and a LOAD of rare artwork. The damn thing is 300+ pages and the spine is about an inch thick. $40 and totally worth every penny. Big GJ to Udon for this release.
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| Digitalboy 648th Post
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|  "Re(1):SF20: The Art of Street Fighter" , posted Fri 4 Sep 10:07
Great now I will have buy another SF art book.
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Anyone else pick this up? I happened upon it today; didn't even know it would be out this soon. So I figured I'd write a mini-review for some of the art buffs here.
I own a number of Capcom illustration books myself - Gamest mooks, All About Capcom, Image Encyclopedia, Eternal Challenge - and I still believe this has to be one of the most comprehensive SF illustration collections I've ever seen.
The book is arranged by artist: Akiman, Kinu, CYMK (aka Bengus), Ikeno, Dai-Chan, Edayan, and Shinkirou got the big sections, and a large "Other" section which includes Shoei, Uji, Nishizawa, Maeda, hell even Falcoon and Nona have a few pages for the SvC Chaos illustrations, as well as some of Kawano's stuff for Namco x Capcom.
Lots of art with commentary by the artists, many of them fun to read about. For example, Akiman's commentary on the zany "Shadaloo Base" CD insert he did (you've probably seen it, it looks like a toy set with a movie-style pic of Chun Li and Ryu weeping, and there's an illustration of some guy's underwear in the corner): "Officially, they probably wanted me to come up with something really cool, but I kind of went off the track into my own little world of personal parody and most likely disappointed everyone." In addition to these, there are sketches with translated notes, figurine designs, an interview section with each major artist and some other nice extras.
So yes, it's a really impressive collection worthy of the anniversiary title. I thought the Eternal Challenge book was an okay book, but had too much Udon stuff and not enough of the rarely-seen Capcom stuff. This is the opposite, hardly any Udon stuff and a LOAD of rare artwork. The damn thing is 300+ pages and the spine is about an inch thick. $40 and totally worth every penny. Big GJ to Udon for this release.
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| nobinobita 599th Post
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| "Re(1):SF20: The Art of Street Fighter" , posted Fri 4 Sep 10:29:
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Anyone else pick this up? I happened upon it today; didn't even know it would be out this soon. So I figured I'd write a mini-review for some of the art buffs here.
I own a number of Capcom art books myself - Gamest mooks, All About Capcom, Eternal Challenge - and I still believe this has to be one of the most comprehensive SF illustration collections I've ever seen.
The book is arranged by artist: Akiman, Kinu, CYMK (aka Bengus), Ikeno, Dai-Chan, Edayan, and Shinkirou got the big sections, and a large "Other" section which includes Shoei, Uji, Nishizawa, Maeda and more, hell even Falcoon and Nona have a few pages for the SvC Chaos illustrations, as well as some of Kawano's stuff for Namco x Capcom.
Lots of art with commentary by the artists, many of them fun to read about. For example, Akiman's commentary on the zany "Shadaloo Base" CD insert he did (you've probably seen it, it looks like a toy set with a movie-style pic of Chun Li and Ryu weeping, and there's an illustration of some guy's underwear in the corner): "Officially, they probably wanted me to come up with something really cool, but I kind of went off the track into my own little world of personal parody and most likely disappointed everyone." In addition to these, there are sketches with translated notes, figurine designs, an interview section with each major artist and some other nice extras.
So yes, it's a really impressive collection worthy of the anniversiary title. I thought the Eternal Challenge book was an okay book, but had too much Udon stuff and not enough of the rarely-seen Capcom stuff. This is the opposite, hardly any Udon stuff and a LOAD of rare artwork. The damn thing is 300+ pages and the spine is about an inch thick. $40 and totally worth every penny. Big GJ to Udon for this release.
Is that out in english already? I've had the Japanese book for a while and it's WONDERFUL. I could go on for years about how great it is.
It's definitely the best SF art book out there. I like how it's arranged by artist instead of game or character, and there's a ton of rare art in there like Kinu's turnaround sketches for her Gashapon series. I was also surprised by how much new art was in there. I love all the new sketches from Akiman and Kinu. If only Bengus/CRMK had done some new work as well What's he up to now? Last I heard he did the designs for Onimusha 4 (his art looked much nice than the actual game).
Perhaps the biggest surprise in the book is thesection in the back with art from Capcom's non brand name guys. There were alot of portraits from SFEX that I assumed were by Ikeno, but it was actually someone else! That's nuts!
Well, it sounds like I'll have to pick up the English language version as well. It'd be worth it for Akiman's commentary alone.
Thanks for the heads up!
btw which Capcom artist is your favorite if you had to choose?
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| emagius
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| "Re(5):SF20: The Art of Street Fighter" , posted Mon 21 Sep 08:18
I got my copy of SF20 in the mail just a couple days ago. I've got to say that I'm absolutely blown away by the quality and massive size of this book -- I rarely say this, but it's a real pity that it's not a hardcover. There's a great balance of art from TvC and ST Revival as well as sketches from SF2:WW and promo art. SF20 is an insanely good deal compared to the previous Capcom/UDON/SF artbooks I've bought.
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If this is actually in English, it may be the answer to my problems. $40 is still too steep for me at the moment since I am still broke, but if the price goes down at all I'm definitely there.
I got mine for ~$25 (pre-order) at Amazon. Of course, it didn't get to me until after this thread went into hibernation. And all the English-translated commentary from the artists is fantastic, even if I don't quite see why Edayan constantly compares himself unfavorably to CRMK (Edayan did such great work with Revival, Alpha 2/3, and Rival Schools).
Apart from Edayan, I don't think there's another Capcom fighting game artist I really like across the board. Shinkiro's CvS character select artwork is beautiful and Akiman, Ikeno and Kinu all have some great stuff, but there's a lot of their work that I'm pretty "meh" about, too.
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| Toxico 4783th Post
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|  "Re(2):Re(10):SF20: The Art of Street Fighter" , posted Thu 8 Oct 09:25
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Also, I never liked Shinkiro that much, but I recently saw a bunch of very early Garou arts (1, 2 and Special) and yeah, at the time, nobody at SNK could get even close to him.
Early on I thought that Shinkiro's art was completely odd. Body proportions and clothing where quite amazing, but his facial expressions where something that I used to make fun out in class, pasting ugly picture in classmates desks. I was quite shocked to feel a good amount of respect when I saw the lineal art for Seth or Hinako in KoF 2000, I even more so when I got a glimpse of the Dream cast art gallery for that game. I was completely blown away by TvC art.... I had to triple check who the artist was.
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I confirm Shinkiro and Edayan are both men.
And Iggy's wild legend continues to grow....
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Kinu is all woman though, and quite a babe (OK maybe not, but I like to imagine she looks just like the characters she draws).
You nasty devil. But, from a psychological point of view, doesn't it make more sense drawing how you would like to be and not how you actually look (similar to story telling, normally you tell what you 'would dream of' doing and not what you 'have done'). The exception is, of course; Europe : they draw what they tell people 'how they look', despise such pleas being located very far away from any type of reality.  * equips flame shield *
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