Huke & Black Rock Shooter
- Categories: Anime, Galleries
- Date: Aug 23, 2009 18:40 JST
- Tags: Artists, Black Rock Shooter, Hatsune Miku, Image Gallery, Supercell, Video Gallery
Black Rock Shooter creator Huke is an artist whose fame is certainly rising, and looking at his superb art it is easy to see why.
Huke also participates in, and is a member of, the highly regarded “supercell” circle of artists and musicians, whose artistic telents in both illustration and music, to say nothing of the combination of the two in the form of a variety of famous MADs, have earnt them considerable acclaim.
Another member of similar artistic accomplishment is Redjuice – his introductory article may be of interest.
Though rapidly accruing fame and even the design credits to an anime and a number of hit Vocaloid tunes, Huke still describes himself as a “freeter,” and is otherwise something of a cipher, so it is perhaps best to know him through his superb works.
Interestingly, many of these works also have interesting “how-to draw” videos, which are embedded below where appropriate…
He does in fact have a modest portfolio of work aside from Black Rock Shooter, covering a variety of characters, both original and from other works:
This horned girl is “Deadmaster,” an apparent antagonist to BRS, and is set to appear in the anime.
Additionally, he has approached characters from Gears of War and Halo, as well as other unexpected franchises, so his versatility seems indisputable (though he does not apparently turn his hand to any erotic or moe subjects).
Of course, his most famous character is none other than ブラック★ロックシューター / Black Rock Shooter, famous from the MAD of the same name (below), who, though generally described as an “original character”, will likely never escape comparisons with Hatsune Miku.
She is certainly nothing directly to do with Miku, but the nature of any indirect connection to Hatsune Miku is in the eye of the beholder…
You can follow his progress at his homepage, on Pixiv, Nico, or indeed on the Channel (where some high resolution versions are available for those seeking even bigger wallpapers).
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This is the reason I come to Sancon. Maybe.
freaking awesome this guy rocks
Nice !!!!
Lets hope this wont turn out suck,btw flat chested and loli anime?
Huke also did some awesome Gears of War and Halo fanart. Funny that none of it is featured in the gallery here.
The last pics is "Good job"
this is really awesome art nice i'm amazed ^_^
I guess I still don't understand what Black Rock Shooter is.
There's Black★Rock Shooter (the song), Black★Rock Shooter (the character), and Black★Rock Shooter (the soon-to-be anime series).
The song was created by the group, "supercell", and used Hatsune Miku for the voice. The character was created before Hatsune Miku came into existence, but is often mistaken for a "dark version" of Miku. The anime was mentioned in SanCon, the link of which is also in this article.
Huke also got a deviantART account http://ryoheihuke.deviantart.com/
Wow... That Huke has some lovely nice dark themed characters... I like :o
I will monitor his site...
any news about Cencoroll?
........., ok , i have seen dozens of Artists in the years, but never saw someone who did draw in a quality like THIS.
Seriously this person cant be a human anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6j_tkFkRUY
bumping this from the other thread if everyone missed it. if you did miss it, you must watch....NOW
It's good to see different art forms involving anime. Nice Gothic flair...
AWESOME
Len and Rin picture is sooooo cool.
as usual, last photo is the best.
Btw... who is that girl anyway.... let me know. okay ^_^
okay i forgot it's dark hatsune miku heheheh....
She's not, check the comments above for who she really is.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Artefact mentioned the word "anime" in the post O_o
Are they gonna make the anime version of BRS?
I believe there's also a doujin novel for this...
r u talking about rule 34?
There's really nothing particularly similar about BRS's character design compared to Miku. It's just kind of mentally burned in from a music video mixing the two together. I was going to say their hair is the only similarity but now that I've seen BRS's hair better it's really not that similar lol
The assassins creed artwork is amazing....
So how does this kind of industry work in Japan? Much like the way it does in North America? Are artists such as Huke or Range Murata just hired as a freelance artist and maybe get a publishing deal for their works eventually?
Super nice quality
That guy creates interesting artwork...
Odd.. earlier comment didn't appear.
Was saying how Huke's illustrations resembled those done on canvas art, with its 'texture-ish' feel.
Redjiuce is an awesome artist as well. Feel in love with the artwork the first time i saw it being featured in an artbook i purchased.
Both highly original with their styles.
Me too loves Huke's and Redjuice's artworks.
The originalities in their style amazed me.
Oh, and also Shirow Miwa's.
Dun think Miku'll be in it. But how much is Huke gonna get paid in copyright and character design is what I wanna know.
0----0
I see the my insignificance against Huke's greatness in terms of artworks and fandom. O_o
Surprised no persona art....
Deadmaster pwns Black Rock Shooter reAL HARD!!
Not. >_>
I'm wondering if your alias is actually derived from Black Rock Shooter.
NOTE: That isn't actually DeadMaster. DeadMaster is the green girl with the jagged horns and curly hair.
No idea who the red one is though.
I'm pretty sure that's Black Gold Saw.
No chance.
Who the FUCK is Deadmaster?
OK，把嘴巴放干净点，话说BRS动画化得消息这怎么呢
BRS’s older sister and enemy.
Somehow that remembers me of Naruto's Sasuke-Itachi story.
This is a BRS topic , take your deadmaster shit elsewhere.
Dood!! Dead master apered almost at the same time as BRS!!
So no can do...
Just do an yuri story with those 2!! :3
Gothic... Awesome!!
Seconded, Dragon.
Let's not forget that Huke is involved in the next Nitroplus x 5pb joint production - Steins;Gate [http://steinsgate.jp] for character design (its fox Xbox 360 only, I think)
"whose artistic telents in both illustration and music"
Might want to correct that typo Artefact.
That's not the only thing Artefact needs to correct.
Yup, special since he named Black Gold Saw Deadmaster...
Your grammar is a bit off, but yes.
Artefact, you got the characters wrong. The girl with horns and red eyes is Black★Gold Saw. The girl with spine-like horns and green eyes is Dead Master.
... I may as well add in the others:
The girl with small horns and green eyes is Black★Devil Girl. The tomboy-ish one with an eyepatch and purple eyes is Black★Matagi. And the armored-up B★RS with purple eyes and a sword that is nearly twice the size of her is Insane Black★Rock Shooter.
You can find them at Huke's artwork descriptions.
where did u get those names? i just know BRS, Insane, and Deadmaster so far...
best test plug suit asuka I've seen yet
Whoa! Maybe Miku will appear on it someway :p
Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't Black Rock Shooter a personification of Miku? Just like how Dark Saber/Saber Lily are just different forms of Saber.
BRS's character is independent of Miku. However if I'm right she didn't have the twintails originally. After Ryo wanted Huke to use BRS for his song she was redesigned with them. The original design had the hair just fall over her shoulders I think.
You are wrong.
BRS was created separately. "Ryo" of Supercell, a popular composer who composed a lot of popular Vocaloid songs came across Huke's work, and was amazed at the similarities, so he approached Huke with a proposal to write a song for BRS.
No. Huke wasn't a part of Supercell initially, and was recruited by Ryo. The only reason you could see BRS "inspired" by Miku is if you squint at the art. Which is reaching, since Huke created BRS before Vocaloid was even out.
Besides, Miku's design isn't exactly unique--plenty of anime-style girls already existed that share some similarities with her design (twintails, schoolgirl uniform, etc.) before.
And BRS was not originally based on Miku's character design?
No.
Which part of "designed independently" did you not understand?
Huke wasn't even a part of Supercell at first, but was recruited by Ryo.
nope. BRS was an original concept although many argue to this day that the similarity is way too huge to pass off as being "coincidental".
Anon, don't be butthurt ;D
It's just a question, dude.
Thanks for the clarification.
most graphic artists (in the beginning, at least) tend to 'adopt' bits and pieces of ideas from their influences, and from imagery they see, games they play, and from their surroundings.
once you've pretty much developed your own style, then the originality will come naturally.
i've worked with a few graphic designers, and more often than not, their cubicle at work has a console gaming rig. it's part of their job to constantly pick up on fresh ideas.
hmm never seen dark saber or saber lily, pic!
Wow....
o_o
for those who haven't seen it yet: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6080673 . this is the video that further introduced BRS's world that i had no idea existed aside from the main character herself. if a fan could do this with 3D, they better do an amazing job as an anime.
forgot there's people without nico accounts soo...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFcc-PVoX5E
thanks, i was just about to ask.
Isn't that a Nazi salute on the second pic there?
not quite. the nazi salute has the palm and fingers facing down.
She needs a gallery now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Microsoft should hire this guy to do their designs, for the garz
Holy fucking shit, that Gurren Lagann pics are awesome. Although, I mistook Yoko's bullet for a vibrator.
The "Dark Nia+Razengan" picture is made of pure awesomeness.