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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3835405" data-attributes="member: 22882">I'm pretty sure Fumi Ishikawa did at least some of Suikoden 3 as well, but I'm not sure how much.  I have a copy of Suikoden 5 sitting next to me, and perusing the manual reveals nothing... :\ I'd prefer not to add Amano, myself.  Maybe if he were the ONLY artist working on the book, I wouldn't mind, but his stuff is so distinctive, it doesn't fit with really anything else.Fumi Ishikawa and Senri Kita have styles that would compliment each other in a book, as would the Yoshinaris (in the VP style, anyway) and Takuji Kawano.  They all do that 'nods to anime/manga styling, but far less exaggerated, with generally more believable/pseudo-realistic gear, and with more depth of shading and design detail.'Admittedly, Samwise Didier is outside of that continuum, but he's just too awesome to leave off. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  And he does use at least a somewhat similar, albeit more DRAMATIC, balance between cel shading and painterly shading.  Of course, he's probably making more at Blizzard than the entire WotC art budget for Magic and D&D both... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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