Growing up, Deborah Saez was inspired by everything from cartoons to games and anime. But it was Fumi Ishikawa’s work on Suikoden II that sparked her love of character design. “Her female designs were ...

HD-2D is the natural culmination of looking back to the NES and SNES eras of gaming for inspiration. In the 1980s and early 1990s, games sported pixelated art styles out of necessity. In 2024, that ...

From a list of 113 nominees, the following 15 students have been named as semi-finalists for the 2019 Artist of the Year in 2D visual arts. The students were chosen by a panel of teachers based on ...

In response to a changing landscape, artists are reshaping themselves by reaching out into new media, creative sectors and ...

There’s a myth that true immersion into video games requires three dimensions: sidescrollers are good for nostalgia, but the future belongs to photorealistic 3D worlds. But a range of recent games ...

To introduce or review and practice recognizing the parallels between literary devices and their anologuess in 2D visual art, such as symbolism, irony, allusion, repetition, mood, and personification ...

There’s a neighborhood of Tokyo named Kuramae that has a distinctly mid-century feel to it thanks to the old shops that line the streets. Located right next to the popular tourist town of Asakusa, ...