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The Ayami Kojima Appreciation Thread

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My current desktop wallpaper.. Beautiful, love her style. It's a bummer they didn't use her for certain Castlevania titles...
Do you have it in 1920x1080 or higher?
 
Where can I find high res artwork for both of these?

Also, her art is fantastic. Was a fan since 2004/05 when I first started this series with SotN.

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Max res for the first one is 1600x1130 but it still looks very crisp on my 1080p hdtv(yeah I use a tv as a monitor)
The 2nd one has 1080p and higher resolutions
 
Fantastic artwork, awful concept art.

Concept art serves to convey themes and create designs that can be easily recreated in the game. This stuff is lovely to look at but imagine trying to recreate that level of design in a PS1/2 game. Not gonna happen.
 
Fantastic artwork, awful concept art.

Concept art serves to convey themes and create designs that can be easily recreated in the game. This stuff is lovely to look at but imagine trying to recreate that level of design in a PS1/2 game. Not gonna happen.

You could say that for most concept art before PS2.
 
Fantastic artwork, awful concept art.

Concept art serves to convey themes and create designs that can be easily recreated in the game. This stuff is lovely to look at but imagine trying to recreate that level of design in a PS1/2 game. Not gonna happen.

Yoshitaka Amano: The Worst Concept Artist
 
Here and Here

Max res for the first one is 1600x1130 but it still looks very crisp on my 1080p hdtv(yeah I use a tv as a monitor)
The 2nd one has 1080p and higher resolutions
Thanks a ton. Was actually searching for samurai warriors as well. On top of that, where can I find all the art for Harmony of Despair?
 
Thanks a ton. Was actually searching for samurai warriors as well. On top of that, where can I find all the art for Harmony of Despair?

I just googled those.
Try searching Harmony of Despair artwork in google images and when you find something you like click on the resolution so it shows all the available resolutions of that image.

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she's awesome, to me the aesthetic she brought to the franchise will always be Castlevania to me, deviating from that has only wrought pain and heart ache.
 
I feel like all the artists that become synonymous with a series gets dropped for unknown reasons, same thing happened with Amano & FF.

I miss Kojima's artwork.. They sell an imported collection of her work on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004L7F7PG/?tag=neogaf0e-20



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I just got this delivered. Worth it for the art <3


Got this little thing as well:

Akumaj&#333; Dracula Best Music Collections BOX
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18 CDs, 1 DVDs and a booklet.
 
A couple of years ago I bought two posters of her Castlevania artwork, framed them, and hanged them in my room. Occasionally, I take a good look at them, and get a strong desire for another Castlevania with such a beautiful Gothic atmosphere.

Then I remember what happened in the last couple of years.
 
I take it she no longer works at Konami? Wonder whatever happened to artists like her and the Suikoden artists? Same thing as Silent Hill artist Ito? Go freelance?
 
I'm not sure if she was ever a full-time Konami employee. She did work on several Koei games between Castlevania stints. Think she's always been freelance.

Anyways, yeah, gotta echo the sentiments about Santa Lilio Sangre. It's fantastic. The prints look great, and in addition to high-quality versions of pretty much all her Castlevania art and other video game work (sadly only up to 2007 or 8 as far as I can tell), it's got tons really nice original stuff, and even some fanart. There is quite a bit more body horror than you see in her promotional work, so just a warning in case anyone might be put off by that. But if you like her Castlevania art, odds are you'd love the book.
 
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