Official Artwork Resources/Websites List

Media Outlet Image Mishmash
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If you have contributions to the thread, Email me with them and I will add them.

Everybody likes official Capcom/SNK/Sammy/whatever artwork. But it’s hard to find good quality images. I figured i’d start a thread of good gallery websites and maybe if everyone shares, we can all find stuff we’ve been looking for. Official artwork requests come up all the time on this forum, so maybe this will help that.

General Official Artwork Galleries

http://www.kawaiidream.net

  • consistently very high quality images; extensive range of rare artwork
  • navigation is tricky because the site isn’t english; sometimes slow

http://www.streetfighterx.org

  • big gallery with lots of street fighter artworks sorted by character
  • some of the sets contain mismatched pieces; not very complete

http://neo.cgn.ru/gallery.php

  • contains some of the most obscure recent SNK artwork in high quality images
  • foreign language; some dead links

http://atpictures.com/capcom/

  • large variety of high-quality Capcom artwork, some very old and rare stuff
  • lots of popups and very annoying layout
    (contributed by jojo)

http://www.guiltygearx.com/ [press the 9th white box (should have gallery in the URL if you look ahead of time at your status bar)

  • Not the very cartoony pictures usually found of GGXX
  • Not many
    (contributed by Sleipnir)

http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/index.html

  • gallery of Samwise Didier and Metzen, the 2 lead artists of Blizzard games (Starcraft, Warcraft, Diablo)
  • Blizzard hasn’t made any fighting games
    (contributed by Mr.Twelve)

http://godflesh.com/sf/

  • good collection of the core Street Fighter artworks from every SF game
  • some incomplete series and crossover game series only contain SF chars

http://www12.big.or.jp/~akiman/

  • official homepage of Capcom’s Akiman; random scattered artwork everywhere
  • total lack of organization and foreign language site makes it hard to navigate

http://streetfighter.free.fr/

  • fairly thorough old-school galleries of some SF characters
  • foreign language; only about a dozen characters in total featured

http://www.fightersgeneration.com

  • the biggest artwork site online right now; definately the first place you should look
  • members-only, slow, disorganized, and very inconsistent quality (some pics look great, others are small and badly scanned)

Character-Specific Galleries

http://www.cammyfan.com

  • lots of high quality Cammy artwork and some misc artwork from other fighitng games
  • lots of incomplete series due to certain specific characters being left out; won’t shut up about his fanboy status

http://sonichurricane.com

  • pretty comprehensive collection of good-quality Guile illustrations from different games plus some full sets
  • i’m pimpin’ my own ghetto gallery just to bump this thread

http://www.kikouken.com

  • the most comprehensive Chun Li gallery on the net
  • zero character variety

Street Fighter Comic Series Galleries

http://www.streetfightercomics.com

  • covery gallery of every variant plus lots of sneak peek interior pages
  • not updated regularly and a little behind with previews

http://digitalsin.bebopboard.net

  • cover gallery of lots of variants, plus lots of info and nice design
  • fell behind with updates a little; down for relaunch in June

http://lowfierce.com/sfcmedia

  • best quality/resolution cover artwork for upcoming issues plus early promo artwork
  • very basic design lacking detailed info

Sprite Rips, Backgrounds, and Screencaps

http://www.finestko.com

  • look under Features to find lots of high-res screencaps of empty CvS2 backgrounds
  • no character artwork of any sort on the site yet

http://www.burningdojo.com

  • media section contains screenpacks of high quality still rips from SF Animes
  • aside from the crazy recolored main page Chun Li pic, no other artwork on the site
    (contributed by Mickey D’)

http://web.archive.org/web/20021208104539/www.rpgicons.com/main.html

  • RPG sprite rips from almost 50 classic games
  • the site will never be updated and only exists because of web.archive.org
    (contributed by Mickey D’)

Psylocke gif.s with sprite sheets
http://psylocke.club.fr/stuff/gifs.html

**SF gif.s **
http://games.tom.com/zhuanti/fight/tujian/index.html

Sprite sheets from micsellaneous games
http://www.panelmonkey.org/category.php?id=1

Random Miscellaneous Galleries

www.sxc.hu = stock photograph site

www.sfgalleries.net
this site is awesome for HQ… comics, games, logos, ect… frequent updating too!!

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I’m opening this up for you guys to help the list ONLY. Only posts in here should be sites to add or take down (in the case of a bad link). Thank you.

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Sprite Rips

http://emugif.emu-zone.org/
It’s back up and might fall down.

  • Layout is more detailed and organized than Fighter’s Generation. Has organized some sections down to moves, specials, air moves, crouching moves etc.
  • Has a wide selection of fighting and side scrolling sprites. Even some GBA and other console sprites.
  • Animated BGs of most fighters
  • Some games are not as detailed as more recently released game sections.
  • Some games are not completed for character selection as of now.
  • KOF section is only specific to KOF 2003 and any KOF beforehand is very stingy on the actual sprites.

Astral Vision: Darkstalkers Resource Centre
http://darkstalkers.confusticated.com/frames.html

  • Has quite a few sprites to pick from, but not as large as other areas
  • Lots of information on characters
  • Few sprites
  • BGs are only small snapshots, not the entire BG area

Zazz’s GGXX sprites
http://sfvds.highervoltage.net/

  • Lots of GGXX sprites already ripped for your enjoyment
  • Quite random on selection as well few animated ones

MIDIANWEB.it
http://www.midianweb.it/gif/gif_index.htm

  • Easy access to sprites
  • Down and dirty easy way to get fighter sprites
  • Oraganized pretty well but not greatly
  • Few sprites to choose from
  • No Street Fighter sprites or KOF sprites period

Puar’s Place
http://www.confusticated.com/sprites_01.html

  • Mishmash of a variety of fighters
  • Fairly organized
  • Each character usually has only a few sprites and a few in game screenshots related to them
  • Not much selection

Mugen Stuff: A lot of the sprites have been ripped for you but just not in animated GIF form. If you download Mugen Character Maker, you can easily “extract” frames and sprites of mugen characters. Quite often these packages are very complete, spanning an entire sprites career (such as KOF Kyo from 99 - 2002 or Iori from 96 - 2003).

And not just moves, it includes fireballs, energy waves, game specific bars (not all, but some), hit sparks, taunts, special intros, win poses and even hit frames.

Below are two websites that essentially have all the characters you would want in mugen form. But be warned, not all your fav characters are there, for some sites either went down or never got around to making that character. They also have BGs availble as well.

http://www.streetmugen.com/categories-chars-us.html
http://randomselect.i-xcell.com/

General Official Artwork

Slateman’s Site
http://www.sfgalleries.net/

  • Lots of official SF artwork
  • Organized very well in clear areas
  • Some artwork missing
  • Some artwork not entirelly complete (only thumbnails)

IronMouse
http://ironmouse.za.org.nyud.net:8090/dragon/index.html?nf

  • Lots of official female fighter artwork.
  • Fanart mixed in as well
  • Missing some female fighters
  • Has cosplay pictures

Misc Stuff
EMUgifs
http://www.emugifs.emuita.it/

  • Simple gif place for EMU games i.e. MAME
  • Unorganized, very small selection.
  • Sprites usually ripped from other places which already have it.

The ShyGuy Kingdom
http://tsgk.captainn.net/

  • A lot of sprites for 8 - 16 bit games.
  • Organized well
  • Sprite sheets
  • Not every sprite is there for games
  • No animated GIFs
  • Sprite sheets: (you have to get the whole thing in order to get one measly sprite sometimes)

Video Game Sprites
http://www.videogamesprites.net/

  • Lots of sprites for Nes and SNES RPGs
  • Nothing much else.

Game Sprite Archives
http://www.gsarchives.net/index2.php

  • A variety of sprites for a variety of games
  • Poor organization
  • Not much sprites per game

GIF Syndicate
http://gifsyndicate.com/

  • A lot of sprites for games and arcades, fighters included
  • Poor organization

OC

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I’m gonna go ahead and open up and let people see where I got some of my backgrounds.

Backgrounds

The BGHQ
http://www.bghq.com/
+Lots of bg’s ripped from games from NES to PSX
-Eclectic Collection
-Poor Organization

Sonic Fan Game Headquarters - Backgrounds
http://sfghq.emulationzone.org/bgs.php
+Lots of backgrounds form every Sonic The Hedgehog Game
-Nothing But Sonic

Video Game Maps
http://www.vgmaps.com/
+Entire Stages from lots of games
-Poor Organization

Rianoc’s Backgrounds
http://www.freewebs.com/rianoc/criolincbackgrounds.htm
+Cool Hand-made Bg’s
-Not a huge selection

Sprite Database
http://neuropod.net/SDB/Backgrounds.html
+Some good ripped bg’s
-Not a whole lot of variety

Watar Resistant’s BG’s
http://n.domaindlx.com/WataWorks/backgrounds.htm
+Lots of ripped and custom bg’s
+Some really high-quality custom stuff
-Strange Selection

Bob And George Forums: Backgrounds
http://forums.bobandgeorge.com/viewforum.php?f=13
+It’s a forum, so sometimes these guys actualy take requests!
-A whole lotta shit to sort through to get the bg’s
-No organization whatsoever - it’s a forum

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Orochinagi Mirror of Sprite rips/edits:
http://kingoffighters.planets.gamespy.com/rips_edits/
+Mirrors various sprite rips and sprite edits
+http://kingoffighters.planets.gamespy.com/rips_edits/efeX/index.shtml
^Has large collection of NGPC/Chibi-edits
-where oh where is Chibi-Sentinel :sad:

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For those who didn’t know, RPG Icons has moved to http://www.rpg-icons.com/

Yeah, a dash has kept practically everyone in the dark for a while now.

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HUUUUGE Update here.

because of the nature of this gluttonous update, I won’t be rating each site with pros and cons. Someone else can do that if they want.

FIGHTING GAME STUFF
Excaliburgames Sprite Packs
Sprite Packs - SFA, VS, MVC2, etc.

Fated Circle Online
Rips arranged by system

Neuropod.net
Various Sprite Rips (some good ones from capcom fighting games)

VARIOUS STUFF
Anapan’s CV Files
Castlevania Rips

Bogleech
Rips of Monster-type Beasties

Dragon Sprite Shrine
Rips of Dragons from Many Games

Fattyboy’s Video Game Sprites
Various Sprites - Great Resource for Warcraft 2 & 3 sprites!

Gigoper
FF6 Opera Stage!

Golden Sun Sprites
Golden Sun Sprites

Megaman XZ
Megaman Sprites

Pixel Perfect
FFtactics & Seiken Densetsu Sprites

Ren’s Comic Zone
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Sprites and others

Retro Game Zone
Various Sprites

Sprite Town
Ripped and Custom Nintendo/SEGA Sprites

Tataku - Game Sprites & Picture Gallery
Mostly Portraits from tons of various Video Games

VGWS
Sprites from Various Video Games

…seriously.

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Street Fighter Palette Database
http://www.zytor.com/~johannax/jigsaw/sf/

-every street fighters palette for every 2d game

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Xenozip.'s GUILTY GEAR XX #RELOAD SPRITE PACKS! are hosted again!

…seriously.

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For those of you who aren’t keeping up with my Douche Av thread,

NXC Sprite Sheets:
http://www.smeenet.org/randomselect/nxc_sprites/

…seriously.

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nice stuff. i want a pic for my aniversary editon arcade stick. any suggestions?

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Eternal Champions yea.

http://www.whipassgaming.com/genesisreviews/eternalchamp_demo.htm

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http://www.sfgalleries.net/

Huge SF art site covers pretty much every SF and the Capcom crossovers and more.

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O.K. I looked in every single one of the links above and I could not find a Sprite of Bone-Claw Wolverine from Marvel Vs. Capcom 2.

If anybody could find, or rip me one I would be greatly appreciative. It could be any kind of animation as long as it shows his Bone-Claws (NOT the Adamantium Claws!!!)

Thank you.

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Joram’s SF3:3S sprites (new URL)

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seems like the alpha sprite packs quiche posted have gone offline. there a backup anywhere?

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http://www.newwavemugen.com/~zweifuss/sprites.htm

Every single frame for every character’s sprites in third strike. Only thing I found missing was Akuma’s raging demon.

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http://www.sxc.hu/

isnt free anymore

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Street Fighter Artwork

http://fightingstreet.com/folders/artworkfolder/artworkpages/artworkindex.html

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Card Fighters Clash DS cards (originally posted by Tone!)
http://www.newwavemugen.com/~ggslash/svc_card_ds_j/