He is a Japanese freelance illustrator, character designer, and game creator. He is known for being one of Capcom‘s most famous main designers from the company’s early days as well as one of the most influential artists in the art, comic and gaming communities. He has had several different pen names before his current one, some of which include “Mido Shiito” (水戸椎土), “CRMK”, “Holy Homerun” and others. Since 2009, he has often gone by the pen name “Gouda Cheese”. Works for Capcom on SFV and worked for a whole lot of huge games like:
- Street Fighter – character art.
- Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom – backgrounds.
- Alien vs. Predator – backgrounds, in-game artwork.
- Super Street Fighter II – promotional + main illustrator.
- Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors – main illustrator, in-game demo artwork.
- Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge – main illustrator, in-game demo artwork.
- Street Fighter Alpha – main illustrator, in-game demo artwork.
- Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact – Akuma’s portrait art.
- Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara – in-game demo artwork.
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 – character art, promotional illustrator, in-game demo artwork.
- Final Fight 3 – promotional illustrator.
- X-Men vs. Street Fighter – promotional illustrator, in-game demo artwork.
- Star Gladiator – promotional illustrator.
- Red Earth – in-game demo artwork.
- Street Fighter EX – character select screen and portrait art.
- Darkstalkers 3 – promotional illustrator, in-game demo artwork.
- Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter – promotional illustrator, in-game demo artwork.
- Plasma Sword – promotional illustrator.
- Power Stone – promotional illustrator.
- Cannon Spike – promotional illustrator.
- Power Stone 2 – promotional illustrator.
- Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes – character art, promotional artwork.
- Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams – character designer, promotional artwork.
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds – promotional artwork.
- Street Fighter V – promotional artwork, in-game art for Character Story and Tutorial mode.
- Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers – promotional art.
- Devil May Cry 5 – Official Japanese Steelbook art.
- Capcom Beat ’Em Up Bundle – promotional artwork.
An other king among the best ones, got to love him and its art!
