Avenue Fighter 6 has an enormous roster of martial artists, every with totally different combating kinds and coaching strategies. Every comes from a special self-discipline, which suggests all of them have totally different physique varieties, from Zangief’s hulking bodybuilder body to E. Honda’s heavier sumo construct. As such, developer Capcom determined to reference totally different real-life fashions to make sure it acquired every fighter’s construct proper. Now, it’s change into my private health aim to be the reference mannequin for a combating recreation character—as a result of what’s extra validating than that?
Capcom and Avenue Fighter 6’s growth course of was not too long ago the topic of a documentary by NHK, a Japanese public broadcaster. The documentary, known as Sport Planet, incorporates a phase on how Capcom captured the physique of its fighters. Character artist Kawade Tsutomu explains that the corporate assembled a crew devoted to researching how muscle groups flex, lengthen, and relaxation on totally different martial artists’ and bodybuilder’s frames.
As soon as they discovered a bunch of appropriate fashions, the crew took reference photographs of their our bodies from “each conceivable angle.” As Tsutomu describes, Capcom wished quite a lot of well-trained physique varieties that might display totally different muscle and fats distribution amongst its characters. These nuances are how Ryu and Zangief can each be muscular however have distinct physique varieties, a transparent instance of how totally different coaching strategies have totally different outcomes. The documentary additionally exhibits extra slender, female fashions that had been possible used as inspiration for extra agile characters like Cammy and Kimberly.
The complete documentary is offered on YouTube, however if you wish to skip to the muscle mommy (and daddy) part, it begins at concerning the 10:30 mark.
Understanding that Capcom went to this stage of element throughout growth is smart, given how a lot Avenue Fighter 6 goes out of its solution to outline its rosters’ distinct disciplines inside its world. A serious a part of its story mode is touring world wide and assembly totally different fighters to show you their methods. So making certain the in-game fashions match real-world athletes is a pleasant further layer of authenticity.
Avenue Fighter 6 is almost a 12 months outdated now, however Capcom continues to be supporting it with new characters and steadiness updates. The corporate is releasing Avenue Fighter 6’s subsequent DLC fighter, Akuma, on Could 22.
