We wanted to make him be more of a colorful, refreshing type of character with colors that are easy to understand with an emphasis on blue and orange.' We want to make Luke the protagonist figure, but differentiate him from Ryu in his appearance and story. 'We wanted to make Luke a little bit different and have some contrast between look and Luke. 'Luke, being the main character, we felt that we really wanted him to be a straightforward and easy-to-relate-with type character without a lot of curveballs in comparison to Ryu, who's always been the main character or iconic character of the Street Fighter series,' Fujioka says. I wanted to emphasize that, but at the same time, Ken was kind of seen as a playful character in past titles, but his setting being on the run, he has to kind of hide himself.'įor more on Ken's design with the Street Fighter 6 team, head to our dedicated article here. 'He also has a stronger sense of fashion compared to a character like Ryu, for example. 'My impression of Ken is he's always been a fiery and explosive – literally fiery, explosive – character,' Fujioka says. SNK, but I never really had the chance to work on a mainline Street Fighter game.' 'I was eventually able to do character design work for other non-Street Fighter main-series fighting games, whether it be Red Earth, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and also Capcom vs.

'The biggest inspiration for me wanting to join Capcom and work on fighting games was Street Fighter II,' he says. However, even those returning fighters have some changes to their looks, outfits, and personalities for this sixth mainline entry.ĭuring our trip to Osaka, Japan, where we visited Capcom's headquarters, we sat down with Street Fighter 6 art director Kaname Fujioka to learn more about his time at Capcom. Amid the new additions like Kimberly, Jamie, and Luke, longtime players can find comfort in the presence of fighters like Ryu, Chun-Li, Guile, and Ken appearing as well. Street Fighter 6 is no different in this regard.

Each time a new Street Fighter entry rolls around, we get introduced to a new cast of characters and reintroduced to some of our favorite series mainstays.

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