What the hell happened with BENGUS?

[ShinZankuro]

I forget to talk this with everyone, but I noticed the most recent artworks from Capcom games, I realized that Bengus has been truly absent.

The question is: Where is him now?


For any people doesn't know who Bengus are, he is one of most influent artists in Capcom history. And here some examples:

[WizzyWhipitWonderful]

I have no idea;

Bengus has been one of my favorite artists since I've laid eyes on CAPCOM WORKS.

[ShinZankuro]

I have no idea;

Bengus has been one of my favorite artists since I've laid eyes on CAPCOM WORKS.

He was my favorite alongside with Akira Toriyama.

Another example of his arts[and so far my favorite. MVC2 ONES]:

[walt]

IMO Bengus was at his peak when he made the character illustrations for the SF EX games

IIRC he was pretty much exploited to his limits creating all kind of intro/outro/portrait/cutscene for SFA3, you could see how over time he started to lose the details for his art.

MVC2 was his laziest IMO. It just feels rushed.

[ShinZankuro]

One of my drawings [You can see Bengus inspired me in my whole life]:

[MDI]

I miss Bengus. He is one of the many aspects of the CPS2 era that made it awesome.
CPS2 Era was to Capcom was Attitude Era was to WWF.

It wouldn't be so bad if Shinkiro could do artwork for all the games as well. From what we saw in TvC and MVC3 he can definitely do the cartoony style quite well.

[Japanese Jesus]

Love his Power Stone work. From what I have read, he's a freelance artist now.

I recommend checking out SF20: The Art of Street Fighter. It has a ton of art by Akiman, Shinkiro, Bengus, and other famed Capcom artist.

[felineki]

He went freelance, like many of the other old Capcom artists did. Personally I like his early 90s style the best, the one seen in Super Street Fighter 2 and Darkstalkers 1.

[walt]

Shinkiro is a very "all around" kind of guy, he can do anything, it just so happens that what they requested the most out of him was his photorealistic style.

Back to Bengus, one thing I'll say - When he did the art for the XMEN / Marvel games, his style fit really well the American Comic Book art, but the designs never felt out of place when it comes to anime. In my opinion, if I had to pick the best ComicsXAnime Hybrid style, I like Bengus' take on it, rather than what Joe Madureira did.

["Bad News" Hoffmann]

He left Capcom around 8 years ago and his last work for them was one of the promotional poster artworks for MVC3
Here is a nice..3 year old blog about him at capcom-unity but the editor does not know what happend to the artist as well.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/bigmex/blog/2008/11/11/the_bengus_blogs


His works are awesome.

[Teitan]

this is so nice sketch マスターアサシン-san, i like dynamics of it.
there is mine :p http://i.imgur.com/OHbcfUh.jpg it's wrong drawn 天 but i did it on purpose as well called this abomination ogre, to don't embarrass real gouki

i mostly remember gouki sketch by bengus and goutetsu, wasnt the guy working on udon sf comics?

[ShinZankuro]

this is so nice sketch マスターアサシン-san, i like dynamics of it.
there is mine :p http://i.imgur.com/OHbcfUh.jpg it's wrong drawn 天 but i did it on purpose as well called this abomination ogre, to don't embarrass real gouki

i mostly remember gouki sketch by bengus and goutetsu, wasnt the guy working on udon sf comics?

That Gouki with hair down are based on his Nakahira's Past Gouki?

[ShinZankuro]

Another Bengus based drawing by me:

[walt]

Your nergasmic drawings posts are disruptive to the conversation we're trying to have here. Stick to discussing the subject, and please put your artworks in a new thread in the Graphic Arts forum.

[Bastard Mami]

kotani and akiman are well and active, but bengus has completely dissapeared.

[Teitan]

hmm honestly i think it's edit of original bengus gouki. i have barely noticed it, before ive linked the picture. used this one, mainly because of goutetsu from Gouki outro in it. first time seeing gouki with hair down too, but it would be cool to have this as alternative costume in sfiv.

p.s first drawings of gouki wasnt that beefy as they did to him later..

[Bastard Mami]

this twitter account seems to have the most recent action

https://twitter.com/GoudaCheeeeese/media

got it from there: (nsfw)

http://danbooru.donmai.us/artists/73482

[ShinZankuro]

HOLY SHIT!!!! Awesome sketch, oh my god !!! O_O [Got it from this account]

[Markpachi]

Such a shame Shinkiro kinda replaced Bengus in the Capcom Promotional Art department.

[Aldo]

So that´s the name of capcom artist responsible for some of the marvel series artwork?? That´s great to know. I really like the X-Men vs Street Fighter art, even with the eye glaring colors the drawing itself are really impressive.