I thought I should include more artists that have inspired me, but I found it difficult to think back on what art has really inspired me, most of my inspirations came from growing up on videogames- I must confess that when I was much younger I was determined to make my own videogames- working in the industry for a few years did crush that dream a little however.
One of my favourite illustrators in the game industry is probably Kazuyuki Kurashima. A japanese character and monster illustrator for various videogames, some of which were games I grew up playing. Though I don't think hes quite as well known as many other illustrators I simply started buying some of the videogames hes worked on just because I love the stuff he comes up with.
He made some pretty oddball character designs for one of the Super Mario games:
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| Two offical character renders for the nintendo game 'Super Mario RPG' |
For some reason, whenever i see his drawings I'm reminded of the orginal drawings from the french storybook 'Little Prince'
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| One of the original illustrations by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. No Idea if this inspires Kazuyuki but it certainly inspires me, I was also told that some of his drawings remind peoeple of my own works. |
He also designed all of the character designs in a videogame 'MOON RPG' for the Playstation console, which wasn't released outside of Japan, the game has sorta became a bit of a fascination for me, since I can't understand any of the story or text but love the illustrations and art style for the game.
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| Screenshot from Moon RPG. I'm still an avid fan of videogames, or at least the stranger and more surreal titles. |
I tried to get in contact with Kazuyuki on his facebook account and I drew this for him:
I love the 3-D renders of the Mario RPG characters. They remind me of Puppetoons.
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