A look inside Yoji Shinkawa’s workspace
One of the most important people behind the Metal Gear franchise is art director Yoji Shinkawa, who has contributed a lot to the game’s look and feel, and its recognizable characters ever since the first Metal Gear Solid.
In the second episode of Kojima Station, creative producer Yoshikazu Matsuhana paid a visit to Shinkawa’s office.
Shinkawa talked a bit about his job, showing how he worked. He told Matsuhana that he has been using brushes for a long time, and while drawing with a tablet feels similar, he still draws mostly on paper at home.
This is Shinkawa’s equipment:
- WACOM CintiQ.21UX / DTK-2100/KO
- Mac Pro/2.8GHz / Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Before, Shinkawa had a much smaller space, but about a year ago he moved to his current office, which is twice as big. Action figures and statues of his designs surround him. He is also wearing the Metal Gear Rising X Wired watch that he helped design.
Shinkawa also did a live drawing of Snake, using both a brush and a white-out pen for highlights.
And he showed the designs for some of the Metal Gear Solid V merchandise: the Fox Edition PlayStation 4, the Puma Jacket poster and a t-shirt.
Here you can see a wall full of environments and character concepts for Metal Gear Solid V, such as Ocelot, Quiet, Skullface and Kaz (missing some limbs).
All in all a pretty interesting look behind the scenes. If you want to see it for yourself, check the episode from 40:42 onwards.
Source: Kojima Station Episode 2
Man I need an MGSV art-book like yesterday, nothing beats Shinkawa art.
Looks like kaz uses a walking stick and is that Chico under ocelot. By the way what did everyone think about the VIP rescue mission in GZ I loved it, some reviewers complained about it but I thought it was a great break from all the stealth especially since I don’t usually get to try out the combat because I restart when I get seen I hope there are more action oriented missions in TPP.
I thought it was Chico at first but it could just as well be a guard from MGSV:GZ, they have the same clothes.
Might just be a guard but it looked like all that art is from TPP so I thought that might be to
Maybe he’s in disguise? Maybe he works for a group that opposes the group who contracted Daimond Dogs? Idk, I want to know which countries are featured in the ”world map” of TPP.
Who knows. Hopefully he’s in TPP, it would be cool to see him as a grown up man.
I agree the rail shooting mission was fun.
The mission itself and its approach to combat? I liked it, at first I was unsure about it, then I liked it, it’s just showing off another possible component of the game, I wouldn’t mind see more of it considering I saw my fair show of combat missions if Peace Walker, and the fact that TPP is again mission based but is larger we will probably see more of it’s kind, I think my biggest problem with it is the “on rails” part, personally I like more control over what I’m doing. but I didn’t mind the mission, Peace Walker was also a stealth game but had a huge amount of extra combat missions so I don’t mind it at all.
I’m really looking forward to find out more about the extra ops I love how they all have there own little story in GZ so I hope it’s like that in TPP but with them being canon it even seems like the ones from GZ could be canon if they weren’t all in the same base
I thought it was Chico as well at first but then I noticed this art from GZ http://i.imgur.com/QmWw3G5.jpg could just be a random guard with a cap, but just now I noticed that the artwork I just posted is right next to this Chico figure so.. who knows, might be a random soldier, might be Chico.. Under Big Boss on the other hand looks like either a new character or possibly Strangelove http://i.imgur.com/ZdCzhV6.jpg
Could be surly she will play some part in the game they would wanna recruit her again
I wish I could in some way fuck him with love through the internet.
That’s very disturbing. Thank you for the image you’ve imprinted in my brain for the rest of the day.
MSGV Artbook please 🙂
shut up thief
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