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Let's get a thread going about retro vidya art! Give us your favorite artists in the business, examples, image dumps/artbook scans etc.

Starting off with a classic, Tetsuya Nomura

>> No.1459139
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When I finally got internet, I discovered the official concept art of Angela and Lise (inb4rieza). I was fine with just jacking it to the 16 bit characters but having the concept art in my hands made the jacking off experience so much better.

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Daisuke Ishiwatari then...

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... And...

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... Now. Fancy that! An already good artist improving himself even further!

Too bad the same can't be said about his music...

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>>1459181
Nice example. Unfortunately I can't say the same for Nomura improving, imo. He used to draw very "tough" looking characters, now they are pretty wimpy looking, i.e. the OP pic.

Bumping with another...

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>>1459196
>>1459124
Nomura used to be a pretty good artist, but he (and Kitase) were just trending what was popular in the 90s, where they were catering to "Berserk" style audiences. The Square/Nomura of 03~+ caters to the "Bleach" audience.

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>> No.1459212

Always related.

http://www.creativeuncut.com/

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>>1459209
>http://www.creativeuncut.com/

>> No.1459228

Make no mistake, Cloud was a whiny bitch then and now.

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>>1459203
Good point anon.

>>1459209
Sick, who's the artist?

>>1459212
Love this site. I'm an amateur artist myself, with a love for conceptual style artwork and I browse the shit out of creativeuncut.

Bumping with some of Nomura's early sketches. His stuff has heavily inspired me.

>> No.1459237

>>1459230
>Sick, who's the artist?

Shinkiro, AKA "the guy who draws everybody as George Clooney".

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Nomura and Final Fantasy VI.

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>> No.1459294
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Yoshitaka Amano > Tetsuya Nomura

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>> No.1459365

>>1459313
Where is this from?

>> No.1459382

>>1459365
>2014
>not recognising Metal Slug

>> No.1459402
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Yoji Shinkawa, the character designer for the Metal Gear series. I loved his art so much I bought the Art of Metal Gear Solid Artbook on Ebay for 80 bucks. Like, damn, look at this. Its beautifully detailed.

>> No.1459413

>>1459256
>That riped Gau.

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>>1459294
Amano is the master, hands down.

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>> No.1459438

>>1459256
Amano>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Nomura

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Final Fantasy V is my favourite Final Fantasy

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>>1459438
Not arguing with you there anon, he is, just Nomura holds a special place in my heart for getting into concept artwork.

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>>1459312 here.

Another artwork drawn by Yas. It makes me wonder why he isn't used as much for vidya work.

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Can someone put a name to this?

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>>1459470
Altered Beast?

>> No.1459473

>>1459470
Artist name I mean, it's obviously Altered Beast.

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Early Paper Mario/Mario Story sketch.

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>> No.1459595
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I really like the art by Ken Sugimori. I like most of the old stuff but the new designs are nice.

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The art for the Panzer Dragoon games, especially the ones on the Saturn, makes my pee pee hard.

>> No.1459620

>>1459595
I like it because it looks totally unique.
Modern Pokemon just looks like generic anime.
...Wonder how much different the series would look today if there hadn't been an anime series.

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Always felt the Darklstalkers 1 illustrations were some of Bengus's best work.

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>>1459630
Tatsuya Yoshikawa

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Edayan is probably the definitive Capcom artist for me from all those cabinet and poster artworks you see everywhere back then.

>> No.1460021

>>1459402
I don't like how snake's head is awkwardly cut off.

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>>1459602
>mfw this is my current phone background.

I know that feel, bro.

>> No.1460070

>>1459602

The Saturn Panzer Dragoon series is one of my favorites of all time. Post more!

I want to get a tattoo related to that artwork

>> No.1460145
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Resident Evil 2.

Trying to put an artist's name on this.

>> No.1460162

>>1459620
>I like it because it looks totally unique.

It looks almost exactly like Akira Toriyama's style except with more faded shading. Far more generic than the style being used now.

>Modern Pokemon just looks like generic anime.

You're talking out of your ass if you can't come up with any examples of anime art that resembles modern Sugimori.

>...Wonder how much different the series would look today if there hadn't been an anime series.

The anime had no effect on the art design of the Pokemon games. The anime has only ever been used to advertise the games and nothing more. Any redesigns you may have seen in the Pokemon has been Ken Sugimori's choice, or however else in GameFreak designed it. Don't make up nonsense like this.

>> No.1460176

>>1459124
Art of retro vidya in general or like actual retro art of retro vidya?

>> No.1460183

>>1460162
>It looks almost exactly like Akira Toriyama's style

>You're talking out of your ass

>> No.1460186
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Katsuya Terada.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/historyofhyrule/sets/72157634694038371/

>> No.1460191

>>1460183

So what's the problem with the modern style if it still looks like Toriyama art to you?

>> No.1460197

>>1460191
What?
I'm saying you're way off base, dude. It really doesn't look anything at all like Akira Toriyama's work.
You're talking out of your ass, as you so eloquently put it.

>> No.1460208

>>1460186
Greatest of All Time. Terada has a far better grasp of composition and form than Toriyama, and he has a touch of Amano's beautiful, painterly sense of color and shadow. He transcends the manga style and yet imbues his work with a distinctly Japanese sense of linework, similar to woodblock prints. Terada's work has a sense of... effortless authenticity. He understands the principles of good illustrations, exemplifies his cultural influences (both Eastern and Western), and his work can hardly be confused for anyone else's. (Maybe Kentaro Miura or Moebius, and those aren't bad illustrators to be confused with.)

I just love the man's work. He really should have been the lead designer on a series during the early days of the JRPG. It would have been a beautiful middle ground between Toriyama's DQ and Amano's FF.

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The only thing akin to Toriyama's style about the original Pokemon art is the slightly similar eyes and even that's kind of a stretch.

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>>1460197
>It really doesn't look anything at all like Akira Toriyama's work.

Wow, this is the first time I've ever heard anyone deny such a glaring similarity. You genwunners are even more delusional than I thought.

>> No.1460216

>>1460210
>genwunner
>smug anime reaction image
And here is where I drop the conversation.
Peace nigger.

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>>1460216
Less argue more art.

Artists unknown.

>> No.1460256

>>1460221
http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Kinu_Nishimura

>> No.1460284

>>1459294
Gonna have be contrary to OP and also say Yoshitaka Amano. FF's aesthetic went to shit after Amano.

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>>1460070
All I have on me are scans of "Die Welt Von Panzer Dragoon Zwei" and a bunch of not retro fanart.

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Can't have a retro art thread without Kaneko.

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>>1460305

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>>1460307

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>>1460317

>> No.1460337
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>>1460256
>http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Kinu_Nishimura

Thanks anon, can you put a name on the artist who did this? >>1460145

Bumping with Akihiko Yoshida

>> No.1460345
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Always one of the coolest cabinet art pieces.

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>>1460320

>> No.1460361
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>>1460307
Japan. Why.

>> No.1460365

>>1460207
For some reason it's trendy to hate Toriyama's art, even though he's actually a better artist than most mangaka.

Toriyama hated working on Dragon Ball Z, that's why most of DBZ is so bland and samefacey.

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>>1460361
There's more.

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>>1460367

>> No.1460372

>>1460365

>samefacey

Can we not tank this thread?

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>>1460370

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>>1460378

>> No.1460384
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the blueprints that came with WingCommander booklet are awesome.

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>>1460208
>Moebius
On that note, Panzer Dragoon was very clearly heavily inspired by his work, and he was even commissioned to make the cover for the first game.

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>>1460382
Vagina demon.

>> No.1460405

>>1460367
Okay that's just stupid.

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>>1460397

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>>1460367
Needs more tits

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I wish more games these days used handmade art for their covers. Most of them these days look like a middle-school photoshop project.

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>>1460413

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>> No.1460447
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Saga Frontier by Tomomi Kobayashi.

Has a Amano feel to it.

>> No.1460448
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one of A. Carmack's early Revenant models for spritework.

2spooky?

>> No.1460452

Shenmue 2, always loved this sketch of shenhua ling. Again, artist unknown..

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>>1460452

>> No.1460463

>>1460429
2spooky

>> No.1460484
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Concept for final boss in FF VI

>> No.1460489

>>1460448
I like that more. The "life jackets" on the final revenant just looks off to me.

>> No.1460491

>>1460447
Definitely, in the use of watercolors.

>> No.1460501

>>1460337
No clue. I found the information about Nishimura by searching for "Shadows over Mystara illustrator."

>> No.1460516

>>1460501
Gotcha. I'm trying to make a list of Japanese retro vg artists, it's hard to pin one person on a game's art design

>> No.1460602

>>1460397
>clitoris near the bottom
Does this mean that the face is really the anus?

>> No.1461320

>>1460307
Giger did it first.

>> No.1461346

>>1460307
HAHA BENIS :DDD

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>>1460418
Love that old school sci-fi look lots of old shmup illustrations had.