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Yoji Shinkawa

*anese artist and illustrator

Yoji Shinkawa (*anese: 新川洋司, Hepburn: Shinkawa Yōji, born 25 December 1971) is a *anese artist. He is best known as the lead character and mecha designer for the Metal Gear franchise. He has collaborated with Hideo Kojima on each of his games.

Contents

  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Works
    • 2.1 Video games
    • 2.2 Other works
  • 3 References
  • 4 Bibliography
  • 5 External links

Biography

Shinkawa was born in Hiroshima on 25 December 1971. He began working at Konami after graduating from Kyoto Seika University. He first worked as a debugger for the PC-98 version of Policenauts. He moved on to serve as art director for the later console ports of the game, then as the lead character and mecha designer for the Metal Gear series. He served as the art director for all Metal Gear Solid games, while providing character designs for Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. He is the lead artist and character designer for Kojima Productions.

Shinkawa was inspired by anime and manga artists like Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Yo*aka Amano, and western artists such as Frank Miller, Aubrey Beardsley and Willy Pogany. He drew inspiration from French artists such as Mœbius. Shinkawa used felt-tip pens, especially the Pentel Brush Pen, as well as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. He is a fan of heavy metal, and artists such as Megadeth, Rage, Killswitch Engage and Yngwie Malmsteen.

Works

Video games

  • Policenauts (1994)
  • Metal Gear Solid (1998)
  • Metal Gear: Ghost Babel (2000) (promotional illustrations)
  • Zone of the Enders (2001)
  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
  • Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (2003)
  • Fu-un Shinsengumi (2004)
  • Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)
  • Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (2004) (revised character portraits for re-releases)
  • Fu-un Ba*atsu-den (2005)
  • Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (2006)
  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)
  • Metal Gear Solid: Rising (2009, unreleased) (character & mech design)
  • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010)
  • Busō Shinki Battle Masters Mk. II (2010) (character/mechanical designs for Justice and Mimic)
  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2013) (character/concept artist)
  • Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (2014) (character & mech design/art director)
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) (character & mech design/art director)
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Zombies Chronicles (2017) (artist)
  • Left Alive (2019) (character designer)
  • Death Stranding (2019) (art director)

Other works

Novels
  • Urban Hercules (illustrations)
  • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (cover and interior illustrations)
  • Metal Gear Solid Substance I: Shadow Moses (cover illustration)
  • Metal Gear Solid Substance II: Manhattan (cover illustration)
  • Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain (cover illustration)
  • Point of Impact (cover illustration, 2013 Fusosha Mystery edition)
Films
  • Godzilla: Final Wars (monster and mecha designs)
  • Pacific Rim (Poster design, *anese release)
Toys
  • Frame Arms/Frame Arms Girl (mecha/character design for Byakko)

Trading Cards

  • Magic The Gathering: Neon Kamigawa (Satoru Umezawa)

References

    Bibliography

    • The Art of Metal Gear Solid
    • The Art of Metal Gear Solid 2
    • The Art of Metal Gear Solid 1.5
    • The Art of Metal Gear Solid: The Original Trilogy
    • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: Master Art Work
    • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker: Official Art Works
    • The Art of Metal Gear Solid V
    • Visual Works of Anubis: Zone of the Enders
    • The Art of Yoji Shinkawa Volumes 1-3

    External links

    • Yoji Shinkawa at MobyGames
    • Yoji Shinkawa at IMDb
    Characters
    • Solid Snake
    • Big Boss
    • Gray Fox
    • Revolver Ocelot
    • Meryl Silverburgh
    • Sniper Wolf
    • Otacon
    • Liquid Snake
    • Raiden
    • The Boss
    • Eva
    • Kazuhira Miller
    • Venom Snake
    • Quiet
    People
    • Hideo Kojima
    • Yoji Shinkawa
    • Shinta Nojiri
    • Mineshi Kimura
    • Harry Gregson-Williams
    • Norihiko Hibino
    • David Hayter
    • Akio Ōtsuka
    • Kiefer Sutherland
    • Project Itoh
    Related
    • Kojima Productions
    • Fox Engine
    • Discography
    • Philanthropy
    • DreamMix TV World Fighters
    • Ape Escape 3
    • Super Smash Bros.
      • Brawl
      • Ultimate
    • PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
    • Category

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