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Udon Street Fighter Comics Coming To DVD

Mike Fahey — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:30:00 MDT

Those of you who missed Udon's excellent Street Fighter series in comic book form have another chance to catch the series next February as Eagle One Media and Capcom team up to present a DVD version of the comic in animated form. Street Fighter: Round One - FIGHT!, due out February 9th, just in time for the release of Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li on February 27 - not only reprints issues 0-6 of the Udon series, it animates the comic, adding movement, music, special-effects, and even voice overs to the comic book dialog. If you ask me it's a complete and utter bastardization of the comic book as an art form, but that's just the sort of thing you'd expect from a big old comic book geek like myself.

Street Fighter Animated Comic DVD [Eagle One Media]

Penny Arcade (And Others) vs Street Fighter

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:30:00 MDT

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Capcom's Street Fighter franchise, longtime series collaborators Udon Entertainment are releasing the mother of all (Street Fighter-related) coffee table books: Street Fighter Tribute, a "special volume of original illustrations from artists all around the globe". Above, you can see Gabe from Penny Arcade's contribution. Below? A selection of some of the other illustrations to be included when the book starts shipping next month.

After 11 Months, My Okami Art Book Arrives

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:30:00 MDT

In July 2007, fresh from beating the game, I ordered the Japanese-language edition of the Okami art book. Weeks went by. Then months. No art book. I totally forgot about the thing. Then today, June 24, 2008...success! The book finally turns up (albeit the English-language edition). Was it worth the wait? Was it ever. This is a proper art book. Full of concept art, level design sketches, character reference models and even some mangas detailing both the game's boss battles and "god release" cutscenes. Best part? It even gives you soundtrack advice: ie, if you're reading this, play track 7 on disc 3 of the soundtrack.

Gallery: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

fdemarco — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:20:10 MDT

Take a gander at these gorgeous Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix screens. These fourteen screen shots only feature SF poster boys Ken and Ryu so if you're looking to see other character art, it's not here. The thing to really look at though is the backgrounds which are just beautiful.

Get Your Art in New UDON’s New Street ...

Nirolak — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:16:06 MDT

Get Your Art in New UDON’s New Street Fighter Art Book!

[blog.capcom.com]

I was looking at Capcom's blog and noticed that Capcom and UDON were holding a contest to add fan art to UDON's new Street Fighter art book. I remembered Kotaku showing some interesting in the art books earlier and thought it was pretty nifty.

Okami Art Book Comes Stateside

Michael McWhertor — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:40:35 MST

Just last month we wrote briefly about the collected art works of Clover Studios' Okami, then lamented that it was a Japanese only release, making an import of the book an expensive ordeal.

Now, thanks to the eagle eyed shoppers at NeoGAF, we know that Capcom and Udon Entertainment will be publishing it stateside, translated into English. From the Amazon product description:

Okami is one of the newest Capcom action games boasting a very unique art style, heavily inspired by Japanese watercolor painting. The Okami Official Complete Works art book will take you behind the scenes to the amazing artwork that defines the wonderful world of this beautiful video game! The 288 full color pages are filled with character and location designs, concept sketches and production notes from the creators giving you an in-depth look at the fantasy world of Okami! A truly inspiring book, translated into English for the first time!

And only $40! Cheap! Michael McWhertor

Okami Official Complete Works (Paperback) [via NeoGAF]
Okami Art Collected For Your Benefit [Kotaku]