Behind-the-Scenes with UDON’s Street Fighter Tribute Art Book

Comicbookresources.com has a great, in-depth piece detailing UDON’s upcoming Street Fighter Tribute art book, which collects Street Fighter art from big-name comic artists as well as art submitted by fans just like you.

They talk to UDON staff, individual artists, and provide plenty of sneak-peeks at the motherlode of SF art contained within. Check it out here!

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Wow! You guys were serious. . .

We’re sold out (for now). You said you wanted the Mega Man Zero Official Complete Works art book. As soon as we made it available in the Capcom Store, you backed up your words big time. Orders are still coming in. Thanks! If you place an order and get a notification that your book is on backorder, please be patient. If stars Capcom and Udon align, we will be getting more.

We also have the Okami Official Complete Works art book. It’s going fast too but we do have a few copies left.

Look out for the brief return of the Street Fighter Eternal Challenge, Shinkiro hardcover edition coming soon and the Street Fighter Tribute Book coming later this summer.

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And in further Capcom comics news… Newsarama talks with Udon

Whew! It’s a veritable tsunami of Capcom info here on the blog today. Just turned up a Newsarama interview with UDON’s Project Manager Jim Zubkavich about all the killer Capcom-related books they’re prepping for the summer and beyond. Jim talks about their work on the Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix project, new SF comics and the supercool upcoming Street Fighter Tribute book.

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Street Fighter Tribute Art Book Extravaganza

Bursting with an unprecedented amount of goodness, UDON’s Street Fighter Tribute hardcover book is now available for pre-order. For anyone that doesn’t know, this book is a veritable love-letter to a game that defined misspent youth everywhere. It’s chock-full of Street Fighter art from over 200 top-notch artists, including notables like Adam Hughes, J. Scott Campbell, and Gabe from Penny Arcade, as well as the best contributions sent in directly by you, the Street Fighter fans. Hot, hot, hot.

You can find all the info here, along with some great examples of the art inside, showing the stylistic diversity and raw awesomeness of the whole package. UDON is also giving away 30 capcom games to random pre-orders, generously donated by Capcom, so make with the clicking and get yours now.

And if that wasn’t enough for one post, the die-hards at Street Fighter Devotion also have a behind-the-scenes interview with the book’s project lead, Jim Zub, who explains how the Street Fighter Tribute came about, how the judging system went, and a little more on the contest. Click here to read all about it!

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Okamiart.com - A Gift to all Okami Fans

Sometimes my job is really fun, as is the case today.  In working towards the release of Okami, we have been providing our partners with some amazing pieces of Okami art in order to put together beautiful articles about the game.  Just take a look at the latest EGM or Play (with POSTER!) to see what I’m talking about.  In fact, we’ve given them so much art, they’ve never used it all.  Ten DVDs full of art go a long way, let me tell you.

To celebrate the launch of Okami on the Wii, we wanted to find a special way to thank all the vocal Okami fans that encouraged us to take a second shot at success with this title.  We looked at special tiny art books for preorder, but the format didn’t do the art justice and we wanted to reward the fans of the PS2 version as well.

So, without further adu, I’d like to present http://www.okamiart.com.  This is a collection of almost every piece of Okami art we’ve made, set up in beautiful gallery form for your downloadable pleasure.  Working with our friends at Udon, there’ s also a beatiful large art book you can order from the site.

Featuring original art, character art, backgrounds, desktop downloads, chat icons, and even a user fan art section, http://www.okamiart.com is everything you ever wanted to see of our favorite goddess turned wolf. 

Also, in the coming weeks, we’ll be having some fan art competitions both on http://www.okamiart.com and our friends over at DeviantArt.com.  With some amazing prizes, you should get drawing today and submit them to our expert panel of judges for both internet fame and some exclusive Okami items.

 Thank you again for all your support and remember to buy Okami for the Wii on April 15th!

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Character Select Screen Art from Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

UDON has been sharing some hq-versions of some of the new SSF2T HD Remix art.

You can see a lot of this in little thumb-sized versions on the actual select screen seen in videos of the game, but they’re pretty enough to be worth sharing in full size. Click on Cammy above, or here for Ken or Ryu.

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Get Your Art in New UDON’s New Street Fighter Art Book!

UDON is cooking up a cool new art book, featuring character interpretations from artists who grew up on Street Fighter. The best part is that in addition to their handpicked contributors, the contest is open to anyone that wants to submit! Click here for the details and submission guidelines.

“The Street Fighter fans who were young players when the franchise first launched are now grown up, but their love of the game continues. This high quality art book, showcases a cross section of brand new artistic interpretations of the Street Fighter characters in a series of full size pin-up style illustrations. The book will launch at this year’s Comic-con International: San Diego as part of Capcom’s Street Fighter Celebration content.

UDON artists and other comic, video game and freelance illustrators have been invited to interpret their favorite Street Fighter characters for inclusion in this special book. Along with these invited artists UDON is sending out a widespread open art submission call to the video game fan artist community to submit artwork for possible inclusion in the tribute volume.

You could be part of Capcom history as part of the Street Fighter Tribute art book and have your artwork showcased alongside top names in the industry! It’s time to show UDON and Capcom your unique vision of Street Fighter!”

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An Udon Street Fighter explosion! Suddenly, I crave noodles…

Everybody’s blogging these days, probably even your mom. Burn! Over on their blog, Team Udon recently announced all their new Street Fighter/Capcom goings-on for the year, including three new SF comics, 2 new manga series and some art books. Follow the link to learn more!

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Udon’s Street Fighter plans for 2008: Interview with Jim Zub

From our good friends over at StreetFighterDevotion.com:

Jim Zub, Project Lead of Udon Entertainment, happily sat down with us to unveil the company’s involvement with Street Fighter’s 20th Anniversary. As a joint effort to reveal the news the exact time as their official Press Conference panel in New York Anime Festival, 4pm EST today, we share with you THREE new Street Fighter comic series and its relation to the highly anticipated game SUPER STREET FIGHTER II TURBO HD REMIX, as well as shedding some light on next year’s 300+ PAGE STREET FIGHTER BOOK!

Click here for the interview!

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