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New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

henhowc — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:59:21 MDT

Curious as to why they didn't just use the portraits from SSF2T Revival and slightly retool those:

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New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly. — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:50:01 MDT

This is my SFIV. Character art done (mostly) right.

And I don't just mean those portraits, they're passable if you don't scrutinize them or anything. But the game itself looks sweet.

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

benmonkey — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:04:16 MDT

Release the game already.

benmonkey

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

henhowc — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:17:50 MDT

@FranUnFine: I think the correct term is "hobosexual" ;)

henhowc

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

pixeltao — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:46:19 MDT

The HD sprites & backgrounds recently got better, but these portraits are horrible. They should hire Kinu Nishimura.

pixeltao

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

loligasm — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:29:51 MDT

never quite understood why cammy's portrait was posed like that. is she up agaisnt a well with her hands on a head?

loligasm

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

cantbeatmegaman — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:45:06 MDT

Cammy looks like a guy. Reminds me of this.

cantbeatmegaman

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Superstar90 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:46:21 MDT

I don't know what you guys are talking about, everything about this game looks incredible.
And whoever said that there was too much muscle, ITS STREET FIGHTER! FUCKING STREET FIGHTER! You can never have too much muscle in street fighter. I would play if it was just 2 giant biceps with headbands that could do HADOUKEN!

Superstar90

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

red — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:43:30 MDT

@FranUnFine: the boys only want to know if they should or should not shave their groin these days. does matthew fox shave his groin?

red

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

FranUnFine — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:23:22 MDT

@kNZA: Actually, the metrosexual style is on the decline, it's now all "retrosexual" (I kid you not), where men have to be beardy and stuff a la Matthew Fox in Lost.

FranUnFine

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

kNZA — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:58:01 MDT

@Angryrider:

They're modern men; shiny as little girls yet bulging with muscle.

kNZA

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Billkwando — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:41:40 MDT

If they don't release this soon, I'll have to file it under "don't give a shit". It's getting to be like Dojo Dump Mark II.

With KOF, SF4, and Samurai Shodown II coming, I can safely avoid dealing with all those crappy cash-in characters they added to this game, Cammy aside.

@Fireblast: SNK can't hear you, cos they're too busy proving you wrong.

Billkwando

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Angryrider — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:13:41 MDT

Wait? Where ARE Ken and Ryu's hairy armpits?

Angryrider

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Suzaku — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:52:41 MDT

@Zyzex_Remix: SFIV and SFIIHD, the same...?

Well, uh, let's see. Street Fighter II HD is a port of Street Fighter II with redrawn hi-res 2D graphics.

Street Fighter IV is a new game set between SFII and SFIII, and is 3D, with some new gameplay mechanics and three new characters, so far.

So, no, I wouldn't say "the same".

Suzaku

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Zyzex_Remix — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:35:44 MDT

So wait, is this SFIV or SFII? I mean, it's the same shit right?

Zyzex_Remix

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Pinhead — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:16:30 MDT

Oh, and the art looks awesome.

Pinhead

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Pinhead — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:15:57 MDT

@Dir_en_grey: The animation lacks smoothness because the game uses the same number of frames to keep gameplay exactly like SSF2T. It's a gameplay choice.

Pinhead

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

excel_excel — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:11:11 MDT

Jeez Ryu's jaw is more stiffer than Duke Nukems

excel_excel

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Nac — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:48:10 MDT

Here, I fixed Cammy's portrait. She no longer has downs eyes and a goofy arm.

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Nac

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Starplate — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:29:08 MDT

yeh, I'd have to agree the drawing for Cammy is off.. One of those off days for Alvin. He's done some REALLY NICE drawings of Cammy in the comics but this profile is just ... bad.

Starplate

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

KeroseneClimax — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:23:53 MDT

If professionals like Burne Hogarth taught all of us comic illustrators anything, it would be that eye's are spaced one eye length apart from each other. I don't care what style you use, there is no reason for why Cammy's eyes aren't properly aligned, and spaced so far apart. I've seen you do better UDON, like the Ken and Ryu portrait pics type of better.

Criticisms aside, the colors and pencils look excellent, as expected from the collaborative efforts of UDON's Alvin Lee and Gary Yeung. As for their style, I like it. Always have. It's like they were influenced by Capcom artists Edayan and Bengus, from their work on the Alpha series, which in turn was influenced by the design style from The Animated Movie. Muscular and detailed characters, with an Anime influenced drawing style, is always cool when there is a need for it. Like when drawing a bunch of MARTIAL ARTISTS in an anime styled game.

Now excuse me, I have to continue thumbing through my pencils only raw edition of Street Fighter 2 # 5. All the while awaiting this games completion.

Also, would these people be so kind as to do new ending art with the now established canonical endings. Not everyone played Super Street Fighter II Turbo: Revival on the GBA, and it gets weird when people still think Cammy isn't a clone of Bison,but his lover.

KeroseneClimax

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Captain Impulse — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:02:15 MDT

@Nawara_Ven: I know, right? How DARE people have opinions?!

Captain Impulse

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Nawara_Ven — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:51:38 MDT

No pointy ski-ramp anime noses? No saucer-sized eyes? Lips versus a pasted-on 2D mouth? Bone and muscle structure? ZOMG I HAET UDON THEY ARE BAD ART

Nawara_Ven

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

KMatt — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:31:38 MDT

The HD art is great and all, but sadly you miss out on the "jiggle and bounce" factors.

KMatt

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Velops — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:31:08 MDT

@Dir_en_grey: The animation can't be changed since they are trying to preserve the original gameplay. The artists are not given much room to be creative because it would affect gameplay mechanics.

@Cogito: Nobody is asking for photorealism. Ever since the Alpha series, the look of the characters have been pinned down very precisely to the point of being iconic. Fans are instinctively picking up on the disconnect with how they think Ryu should look and what this character portrait shows.

Velops

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

henhowc — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:23:48 MDT

@Dir_en_grey: The artists are still handicapped by the original art. Capcom already mentioned the fact that they are keeping the number of frames and the hit boxes the same. Which makes sense if this is going to be a "budget" game and them wanting to keep the gameplay as close to the original as possible. If anything the animation may stand out and look worse than the original because of the art being in HD.

There does seem to be something funny with the standing animation in the latest videos though. It looks like the frames aren't looping correctly or something.

henhowc

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Wolfers — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:37:17 MDT

Yikes, apparently the golden ratio of face geometry does not apply here. Most ugly!

Wolfers

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Captain Impulse — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:27:38 MDT

@gunstarhero: Now that you mention it...

@ashjaw: Ugh, you're right. I noticed them too. They look weird and...creepy.

Captain Impulse

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

ashjaw — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:25:29 MDT

cammy's eyes. look at them.

Udon needs a new art direction to their street fighter comics/games, they're seriously outdated.

ashjaw

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Cogito — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:53:33 MDT

For everyone complaining about the art in this game...I don't understand your qualms. Sure, everyone has thier own taste, and you certainly aren't required to like it...but please remember, these are stylized characters. They aren't meant to look hyper-realistic. (the same is true for SFIV, FWIW).

I've always been a fan of Udon's work; I own every comic book in the SF series, so perhaps this post has a bit of fanboy bias, but like I said, you aren't required to like it. Just realize that these aren't photo-realistic shots...they aren't meant to be. They're a team of artists' interpretation of what the original SF characters look like.

Cogito

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Dir_en_grey — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:46:12 MDT

Udon's artbook looks good, but Super Turbo HD really is hit and miss... mostly miss IMO...

Have you guys seen the vids of this? The animation looks horrible because seems like they just trace over the each original animation fram while modifying it when they draw it, instead of actually trying to "animate" what ever they were drawing, so there are like weird "spazzes" in the animation which really bothers me.

Another complaint is the midi like cheaply made sound track really has to go... If it's worse than the original, why even bother... There was a Street Fighter 2 remix sound track CD that was great, hope they would just use that or something...

For stages so far the only stage that I thought "Wow, looks good" was Vega's stage. Anyway I hope they are still willing to change some of the art and in game sprite animation... cuz some of it just looks too fugly, to the point that the original looked even better imo. If they are remaking it in HD, graphics is definitely a big part of the selling point, hope they get it right because I don't want to end up not buying the game because of some cheap looking art/animation that I could not stand.

Dir_en_grey

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

GodzillaVsJapan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:35:38 MDT

Can't wait for this to come out. The Udon Crew has been doing a fantastic job on this project.

GodzillaVsJapan

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

GrimaceXL — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:33:47 MDT

@push eject: You too, eh?

GrimaceXL

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Saint Anima — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:29:34 MDT

@Demonbird: Took the words right outta my mouth. ^_^

Saint Anima

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Saint Anima — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:29:12 MDT

@Fireblast: Hmm, eh...hope ya ain't comparing this to KOF XII. Not really much of a comparison there.

Have you seen KOF XII? >_>

Saint Anima

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Demonbird — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:28:59 MDT

@Fireblast:
Have you seen KOF XII?

Demonbird

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frostcircus — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:28:12 MDT

@gunstarhero: I did now

frostcircus

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Fireblast — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:20:29 MDT

SNK this is how you make a fighting game.

Fireblast

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

gunstarhero — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:15:54 MDT

Anyone else think Tom Cruise when they saw the chopped pic of Ryu?

gunstarhero

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

KrsJin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:14:37 MDT

Can't wait, can't wait.

KrsJin

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Sollus — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:13:31 MDT

So how much is this game going to cost?

Sollus

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

JoBo — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:11:36 MDT

MEGA SEXY. That's the best kind.

JoBo

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Strangelove — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:10:10 MDT

I like the look, personally.

Strangelove

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

karl_hungus — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:07:56 MDT

is ryus shirt made of dinosaur bones?

those are pretty cool, i would like to see the whole cast...

karl_hungus

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Dave Silva — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:03:44 MDT

What the heck is wrong with Cammy's face?

Eyes should NOT be so far away from the nose. Aaaaaaaaargh.

Dave Silva

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

symphony_of_the_night — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:03:37 MDT

This game is going to make me hate UDON....
i like their art, all of them are amazing artists, but releasing this they know that is an incomplete rushed and ugly game... they are artists, they know if something looks awful ( and worse in movement )
They are looking down at capcom fans and people who doesn't know anything about art , and that's what makes me mad at them...

symphony_of_the_night

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

zanzibarlegend — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:00:38 MDT

i looooooove SF, SF4 has me hyped... with all the great fighting games dropping, if this doesnt come by spring, i will have to file this game under my "dont give a shit list"

zanzibarlegend

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

sonofnone — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:59:58 MDT

The artwork is okay, but what's with Ken and Cammy's ears? Those bumps look malignant.

sonofnone

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

QualityJeverage — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:57:44 MDT

I like the one comment on that blog post. Ken's hair is SERIOUS BUSINESS.

QualityJeverage

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

push eject — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:54:52 MDT

this is not human anatomy.
i do not like udon's artwork... so overtly masculine and gross, MUSCLES EVERYWHERE.

push eject

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Big World — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:53:12 MDT

I saw a video of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix in action and I was horribly disappointed.

This game can kiss off, even if it's got HD armpit shots.

Big World

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Vidril — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:48:35 MDT

SEXY

Vidril

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

mossberg — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:48:26 MDT

@Candlejack: a sandwich full of arm pit hair

mossberg

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Aethyr — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:47:39 MDT

Wow, now that's HD.

Aethyr

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Drue — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:47:34 MDT

Someone's been waxing.

Drue

New SFII HD Art Shows Stern Faces, Clean Armpits

Candlejack — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:44:00 MDT

Eww. I kinda imagined hairy armpits as I read that. Thanks a lot, I was about to eat a sandwich :(

Aaaaaaanyway, I hope Capcom brings this out soon. Else I won't care anymore.

Candlejack