Hyung-tae Kim
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Hyung-Tae Kim (born February, 1978, Seoul) is a Korean artist. He has designed characters for video games such as the Magna Carta series and the later installments of the War of Genesis series (War of Genesis: Tempest, War of Genesis III and War of Genesis III: Part 2).
He began his video games career working in the field of background music, then shifted to art and design. He has branched out into the comic book industry, serving as a guest cover artist, and has contributed to the Udon street fighter series.
He is currently working on an MMORPG in NCsoft known only as "Project M" for right now as the design team leader. He will not be the primary artist, as he has been for all the games he has worked on so far, but a director of the design as a whole.
Kim is an artist in the manhwa style. His latest artworks use a deformation technique where Kim disregards anatomical accuracy to achieve a specific feel to the character.
[edit] Books containing Hyung-tae Kim's illustrations
- Comickers Art Style Vol. 1: Color Technique (ISBN 4-5685-0292-6) (Japanese)
- OXIDE
- OXIDE 2: Carta Numinous: Kim Hyung Tae: The Second Works (ISBN 8995594810)
- OXIDE 2x: Kim Hyung-Tae Illustrations (ISBN 4-7577-2095-5)
- Act III: Scene 8 (ISBN 8970412832)
- Io: Art of the Wired (ISBN 0973586702)
- Ragnarok Online Official Fan Book (ISBN 4-7973-2815-0)
- Range Murata's Robot Vol. 05 (ISBN 4-8982-9987-3)
- Japanese Comickers 2: Draw Manga and Anime Like Japan's Hottest Artists (ISBN 978-0060833305)
- KOREAN illustration (ISBN 978-4-8703-1792-5)
- APPLE Vol. 1 (ISBN 978-1897376362)
[edit] Trivia
- He has worked on nearly all of Softmax's works, but now works in NCsoft, another Korean game company.
- He is very good friends with Juno Jeong, most noted for his contributions in the Lineage series of NCSoft.
[edit] External links
- Official Hyung-tae Kim Website (under construction)
- "The Making of Runaway: A Sketching Tutorial by Hyung-tae Kim" from Guu Press's Magazine
- Io: Art of the Wired: An art book featuring Hyung-tae Kim, and six other artists, published by Guu Press
- NittyGritty²: Hyung-Tae Kim's official Korean and English fansite.
- Hyung-taekim.org The largest fan-composed gallery of Hyung-tae Kim's work on the Web. Also includes his biography, merchandise information, interviews, drawing/coloring tutorials, and more.
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