Episodes
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Richmond, Shawn and AJ offer a tribute Akira Toriyama(鳥山明) likely one of the most influential artists and creators of our lifetimes. After his tragic passing in March of 2024 - we discuss his life and work and how it has penetrated and enriched our lives. Rest in Peace, 鳥山明.
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**SPOILERS - The Boy and The Heron will be discussed at length and spoiled. Go watch it first! (or not)...**
Richmond, James and Mike Judge(@goro_toro) have an impromptu podcast immediately after coming out of the latest Hayao Miyazaki film, The Boy and The Heron. The crew explores the film's artistry, structure and Miyazaki's influences and development as a director coming into possibly his actual last film. -
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SPOILERS - On Gaku will be discussed at length and spoiled. Go watch it first! (or not)...
Richmond and James have an impromptu discussion after immediately after rolling the credits on the 2019 film On Gaku: Our Sound(音楽) written, directed and animated by Kenji Iwaisawa and based on the 2005 self-published manga - Ongaku to Manga by Hiroyuki Oohashi. -
We return to being fans rather than creators. A year of renewal and rebirth. Richmond, Thomas and AJ take some time to talk about the things they legitimately enjoyed as a fan in 2023.
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The Art Eater Crew catches up, Richmond discusses his Gamescom and Devcom trip plus a casual postgame discussion of 2023's Gamescom focusing on the smaller upcoming games that we are excited about with plenty of tangents.
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Thomas welcomes Zeno and Federico, the two talented developers from Tmesis Studios (https://twitter.com/tmesis_studio) working on the upcoming European comics inspired game "Universe For Sale". They dive into what makes Italian and French comics unique, how it influenced the game, and share references of (very) local artists and publications that defined their childhood and sensibilities.
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Join Richmond live from Germany chatting with Shawn and Thomas for a bit of a pre-game to discuss games we are excited to see more from at Gamescom 2023. We talk Mortal Kombat 1, Model kits, Persona 3 to Web vs. Game UI as well as Akira Toriyama's love of military hardware and the cultural artistry of Black Myth: Wukong.
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Richmond, Shawn and Professor Andy gather for some undirected initial impressions of Larian Studios' latest CRPG, Baldur's Gate 3 as well as some discussion of older Baldur's gate titles, glowing cats, the game design philosophy, XCOM, turn-based Metal Gear and some storied encounters, fun gameplay tips and more. More Baldur's Gate 3 episodes to come!
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Richmond, AJ and Professor Andy gather for a session to dive deep into Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This is a analysis of the Tears of the Kingdom trailers but we discuss the design philosophy, themes, lore, connection to Breathe of the Wild and more! This discussion was so extensive that we split it into two episodes.
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Richmond, Shawn and James have been playing the remake but WE CAN'T talk about said remake without talking about the original, genre-defining Resident Evil 4. We discuss our intro to RE4, industry context all the way to Leon's glow up and THE KICK. Join us as we gush about and revisit the original Resident Evil 4.
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Anime discussion are now called Anime Therapy! Today we dive back into OVAs today. To discuss, we are joined again by special guest and film and game industry storyboard and concept artist, Jessie Lam (@axl99) currently a Principal Concept Artist at BrassLion and has worked with many huge games, studios and IPs such as Invincible, Gears of War 5, Skybound, The Coalition, Bandai Namco & EA among others. We each pick a favorite OVA to gush about. From Sol Bianca to to Bubblegum Crisis as well as M.D. Geist and Hellsing, its another fun episode where we enjoy a type of therapy about good animation.
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The Art Eater Podcast is kicking off a new episode type with an amazing guest, C.Bedford (@cbedfordart), they are a super talented illustrator and digital painter, currently working on an awesome looking new game called "Sorry We're Closed". Rather than tackle a specific subject with our guest, this episode type is a deep-dive undirected interview with C. Join us as we meet, C.Bedford!
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Art Eater is introducing a chill new episode type - Now Playing. Where we just talk in depth about media we are currently enjoying. For the first of this type of episode, its actually a "Now Reading" but that isn't as catchy. Anyway, join the Art Eater crew as we discuss our current fav comics and manga - We talk Fire Punch, American Gods, The Bomb, Nuns with Guns (many comics), Me & Roboco, Witch Hat Atelier and many many tangents.
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Art Eater focuses on games but we cover anime as well -- today we dive head first into 80s and 90s OVAs! To discuss, we are joined by special guest and film and game industry storyboard and concept artist, Jessie Lam (@axl99) currently a Principal Concept Artist at BrassLion and has worked with many huge games, studios and IPs such as Invincible, Gears of War 5, Skybound, The Coalition, Bandai Namco & EA among others. We each talk about our first OVAs, favorites and classic influential examples. From Devil Hunter Yohko, Megazone 23 and Birdy the Mighty to Satoshi Kon, 801 TTS Airbats, Newtype, Cowboy Bebop and even Harmagedon.
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Its Valentine's Day and The Art Eater Crew thought we would take a slightly more relaxed route and discuss, Love at First Sight in games. Although, we don't just talk about games of course -- Falling in love with fighting games, amazing statues, Batman & Robin for Playstation (that's right), Owlboy, King of Fighters sprites and even Chrono Break - our love that will never be...----- *sigh* -- Ahem. Also, Professor Layton's Hat, Akuma in Tekken, One Piece, X-Men: COTA and more!
Think about your first love and join us for a relaxing trip to discuss love....at first sight.
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We are joined today by game journalist and writer, Derek Swinhart to talk about the Dead Space Remake and as well as modern survival horror. We get into allegorical themes, Lovecraftian influences, Callisto Protocol parallels, the important changes in the remake and the unique dismemberment mechanics in Dead Space.
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We have a full house today with the Art Eater Crew and are joined by special guest, illustrator and animator, Darius Scott Hill (@burntmoth19) to celebrate Lunar New Year 2023, The Year of the Rabbit...by discussing Rabbits in games and media. We discuss the fighting game, Rabbit, Brutal: Paws of Fury, Peter Rabbit, Armello, Overgrown, Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit, Waku Waku 7, Sonic, Odin Sphere and more. SO MANY Rabbits. Celebrate with us.
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Richmond, Shawn and AJ hang out and casually discuss our favorite games and media from 2022. We discuss Divinity: Original Sin, Marvel SNAP and Evil Dead: The Game and we even delve into great shows and moves including Chainsaw Man, Ranking of Kings and Reason to Leave. Grab your favorite drink and chill out with part of the crew.
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The Art Eater Crew discusses game announcements that were revealed during The Game Awards 2022 . From the Street Fighter 6 reveals to Hades 2 and new indie titles like Hellboy: Web of Wyrd and Replaced as well as discussing a bit of Armored Core VI : Fires of Rubicon.
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The Art Eater crew maturely discussions eroticism in games for our 69th Episode. We discuss early games with sexual depiction in them as well as how censorship of sexual content has changed in the industry plus discussion of the range of approaches in games such as King of Fighters, Baulder's Gate, Mortal Kombat and Hades.
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