/vr/ - Retro Games

On Hitoshi Nishio, who was often credited as "Tanuki" in-game, Akiman writes: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/300021334057054208
>There was a hot-blooded guy like Patlabor's Oota who was named Nishi, and he breathed life into SF2's Guile. he also sprited X-Men's Cyclops and SF3's Ibuki. He was a person with an incredible passion for making games, who was invaluable to Capcom.
His resume also includes Darkstalkers' Hsien-Ko. Akiman also notes that the look of Guile's iconic Flash Kick was largely Nishio's work: https://twitter.com/akiman7/status/547060900218171392
>I did his walk cycle, but the rest was all Nishio. He ended up making so many sprites that he was eating into Chun-Li's allotted memory, so I had to have him cut some. We had a general concept for the Flash Kick from the beginning, but even though Nishio's animation ended up being completely different from the concept drawing it was really cool.