- This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.
Hyung-Tae Kim (born February, 1978, Seoul) is a Korean artist. He has designed characters for video games such as the Magna Carta series and the later installments of the War of Genesis series (War of Genesis: Tempest, War of Genesis III and War of Genesis III: Part 2). He began his video games career working in the field of background music, then shifted to art and design. He has branched out into the comic book industry, serving as a guest cover artist, and has contributed to the Udon street fighter series, as well as creating his own manhwa series, Planet Blood. He is currently working on an MMORPG in NCsoft known only as "Project M" for right now as the design team leader. He will not be the primary artist, as he has been for all the games he has worked on so far, but a director of the design as a whole. Kim is an artist in the manhwa style. His latest artworks use a deformation technique where Kim disregards anatomical accuracy to achieve a specific feel to the character.
Books containing Hyung-tae Kim's illustrations
Trivia
- His style of design came from Range Murata.
- He has worked on nearly all of Softmax's works, but now works in NCsoft, another Korean game company.
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