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I am a professional game artist who wants everyone to love art as much as I do!

A Buddhist’s Guide to Asura’s Wrath Part 3 – The Mighty Vajra

 

 

By Richmond Lee
With additional help from Andy Lee (thanks bro!)

Previous Entries:
A Buddhist’s Guide to Asura’s Wrath Part 1 – Buddhist Cyborgs and the story of the Asura
A Buddhist’sRead the rest

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A Buddhist’s Guide to Asura’s Wrath Part 2 – Weapons – The Bishop’s Staff and Hungry Ghosts

 

 

By Richmond Lee
With additional help from Andy Lee

All Entries:
A Buddhist’s Guide to Asura’s Wrath Part 1 – Buddhist Cyborgs and the story of the Asura
A Buddhist’s GuideRead the rest

Posted in Art History, Asura's Wrath, Buddhism, capcom, video games | 8 Comments

A Buddhist’s Guide to Asura’s Wrath Part 1

 

By Richmond Lee
With additional help from Andy Lee

All Entries:
A Buddhist’s Guide to Asura’s Wrath Part 1 – Buddhist Cyborgs and the story of the Asura
A Buddhist’s Guide toRead the rest

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Posted in Art History, Asura's Wrath, Buddhism, capcom, video games | 43 Comments

King of Characters

No fighting game is complete without great characters. If all we cared about was gameplay we’d probably be happy just playing endless rounds of just Ken vs Ken in Street Fighter. Think back to the… Read the rest

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King of Fighters – Lucky Number XIII

To commemorate the release of King of Fighters XIII, I will be doing a series of blog posts on why I love the hell out of this game. Many other people, much more qualified than me… Read the rest

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Dragon’s Crown!

Vanillaware just announced their latest game, Dragon’s Crown, a beautiful, beautiful, bee-yoo-tee-ful hand painted, 2d, high fantasy action RPG. This game is a love letter delivered by cruise missile with its sites set square on my… Read the rest

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Terra’s Black Marker

Terra's Black Marker
I recently got to meet one of my very favorite artists, Katsuya Terada at the opening of his art show, Terra’s Black Marker, at the Compound Gallery in Portland Oregon. Terada is a prolific artist… Read the rest

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Redline Opens This Weekend!

Do you believe in love at first site?  I guess I do, because that’s exactly how I felt the first time I laid eyes on Redline, the new feature from Madhouse which opens this

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Inception – Reality is Personal Fiction

Inception teaser trailer logo

I’ve just watched Inception and have concluded that Christopher Nolan is some kind of genius (possibly an evil genius).

I’m about to discuss the movie and Christopher Nolan’s body of work in as… Read the rest

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Darkstalkers and the Twelve Principles of Animation

darkstalkers capcom characters intro
I originally posted this a few years ago on the Madman’s Cafe, one of the best online communities for thoughtful discussion of video games since the 90s.  The post got alot
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Posted in animation, capcom, video games | 60 Comments