Every fighting game fan who was around during the 90’s knows that Capcom produced some of the best 2D game art ever. But we mostly talk about their illustrators – Akiman, Bengus, Kinu Nishimura, Edayan and so on. But what about the sprite artists, the people who made animated works of art like, you know, Hugo, Elena, Pyron, Felicia, Hydron or Sentinel?
Below is a table showing every Capcom fighting game that had at least one new character sprite, and the people credited for ”Object Designer” or ”Character Designer”, as opposed to the ”Background” or ”Scroll” designers that made backgrounds. Now, this list may not be 100% accurate. The credits were notoriously hard to track back in the day, with most people going by pseudonyms. Mobygames.com, from where I’ve taken all of the credits except Street Fighter Alpha 2, has identified most of them, but there may be overlaps or mistakes.