This should be fine with the anti-piracy stance of the forum as they were extracted from a legit copy, but yeah here’s all the artwork from SF4’s gallery, sans one stage image that got missed (It’s been sent to him and should be up soon).
A friend of mine translated some of the stuff, though not much of it is development related. However there is one interesting bit: in the character concept art you’ll notice images for a black character that went through several redesigns. Apparently this fellow was “King Cobra”, and was meant to be a more acrobatic counterpart to Ryu and Ken, and possibly bald. He kinda made it into the game to boot, but not in a way some people will like.
About the Rufus design, it would’ve been cool if Rufus turned out to be black. I think more games today need more diverse races and more sex diversity. We need more women in games, we need more blacks, and we especially need to start getting arabs into games!!!
always dig seeing the early sketches. pretty cool to see the progression from their early ideas to the final version.
really happy w/ how over-the-top the SF4 character designs turned out. it really distinguishes itself from recent fighters like VF5, Tekken, and Soul Calibur. the SF4 designs are bolder and have much more character. thanks for the links.
I wish the sprites looked more like they do on the background concept art.
If they had the ideas for extras costumes I don’t see why only Sakura has 3.
