Growing up, Deborah Saez was inspired by everything from cartoons to games and anime. But it was Fumi Ishikawa’s work on Suikoden II that sparked her love of character design. “Her female designs were ...

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Whether its in Netflix's Arcane or the upcoming Secret Level animated anthology from Amazon Prime Video, the techniques used by 2D and 3D artists are merging. We’re used to thinking of 2D digital ...

There’s a myth that true immersion into video games requires three dimensions: sidescrollers are good for nostalgia, but the future belongs to photorealistic 3D worlds. But a range of recent games ...

As an artist and keen observer, it seems to me that 2D art uploaded to social media appears progressively similar in visual language. For instance, the fan art for a given fandom, whether it is ...

Mohamed from Egypt has been covering Japanese and indie games for more than 5 years for local and international outlets. He is very interested in the Japanese language and culture, and is a long term ...

HD-2D is the natural culmination of looking back to the NES and SNES eras of gaming for inspiration. In the 1980s and early 1990s, games sported pixelated art styles out of necessity. In 2024, that ...