Illustrationintheworld

  Takayama is known for his popular illustrations for "Battle Spirits," "Duel Masters," "Sengoku Battle," "Lord of Vermilion," "Rage of Bahamut," and more. Having been involved in design projects for such top-selling games, he had the honor of working as the main character design artist of Sega's popular action role-playing game "Valkyria Revolution." Not only are the illustrations categorized by item type, but yet-to-be-released original works were selected by Takayama himself to complete this collection. The contents include author interviews and news to bring out his true charm as an artist.

  Japanese artist and illustrator, a drop-out from the Kyoto City University of the Arts who soon found a career in sf Fantasy and game Illustration, in which he gained renown in particular for his images of dragons (see Supernatural Creatures). Notable covers include several works by Yoshiki Tanaka, although Yoneda is much better known through his Games work, including the various iterations of Seiken Densetsu ["Holy Sword Legend"] (1989; vt Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana etc 1993-2007 US ), itself a spin-off from Final Fantasy. He won the Art Seiun Award in 1994.

  Shinya Edaki ( 枝木真也 ), better known by his pen name Edayan ( えだやん ), is an illustrator who works for Capcom. He is best known for his work in the Rival Schools series. His pen name is actually a nickname from his older brother when they were younger. He considers himself very fortunate to have been hired by the company since he entered a drawing contest for the Darkstalkers series in the now defunct Gamest magazine. They were looking for new artists and he was basically hired on the spot. He does his work mainly on PC and uses a Mac to speed him through. His influences vary from children's anime (such as Doraemon), popular movies in Japan, and films from around the world. He aims to always seek new and stylish ideas to incorporate into his style. He stated that when he was creating the illustration for the Street Fighter Alpha Japanese PS cover, he tried to imitate the style in Spriggan for Ryu. In his eyes, he jokes that the concept is horribly backfired.