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Art Attack Friday: Jin-Saotome photo

Art Attack Friday is your weekly look at videogame fan art created by a talented artist.

Art Attack Friday is taking a different approach this week as we take a look at Jin-Saotome, master custom toy maker. Jin has an amazing talent here. He's kind of like Dr. Frankenstein in that he takes body parts from other toys, fuses them together, re-paints them and creates a new, better figure. 

Jin-Saotome has a gigantic collection of custom figures over on his deviantART page. He dabbles in a little bit of everything nerdy from videogames, Marvel heroes, Transformers and more. What's really impressive is the fact that the figures all turn out so well. In most cases, better then what an actual toy company has or can make.

Check out his official Web site and deviantART for more of his figures. Any particular figure you guys really like? 


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Blindfire at 06/19/2009 17:23
Man, that Nathan "Radd" Spencer figure is slick! I think I'd lay down some cash for that one, and the Solid Snake figure in the header/group image.
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SuitcoatAvenger at 06/19/2009 17:26
Really digging his "realistic" interpretations of the Mega Man cast.
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fetusmilk at 06/19/2009 17:37
holly crap these are awesome.

i always wondered how people do this. are they made from scratch? well some of it anyway.
but then i noticed the megaman X body looks like one of the newer gijoe type figures.
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bastardmaster at 06/19/2009 17:57
digging the Freeman, Fallout power armor dude and especially that Kratos figure. more stylized and awesome.
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awa64 at 06/19/2009 18:02
"What's really impressive is the fact that the figures all turn out so well. In most cases, better then what an actual toy company has or can make."

To be fair to the toy companies, they're on a budget and Jin isn't. Also, Jin doesn't have to worry about manufacturability for any custom parts he makes/modifies, or about safety standards. It's far easier (and cheaper) to make a one-off art project than it is to create a mass-producible product that'll show up in toy stores for an affordable price.

That said, Jin does some kickass work.
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s0lesurviv0r at 06/19/2009 18:31
I'm having flashbacks of Centurions looking at those megaman figures.
MAN AND MACHINE, POWER EXTREME!!!
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prolifikstudio at 06/19/2009 18:33
Jin is really good you should see his Halo work.
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viralhunter at 06/19/2009 18:36
Kennedy looks 50 :/

Everything else is pretty badass though.
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bodybreak at 06/19/2009 19:08
i wonder if all of these figures have been frankenstein'd together, or if he uses molds to create some of the custom parts. i like the Fallout 3 figurine as you can see that it has all these mix-matched parts and his impressive painting skills have brought them all together.
A++.
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Doomsday Forte at 06/19/2009 19:20
Simply incredible. Floody Chief is pretty scary. D: And I love the "realistic" Mega Man characters. XD
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Samsquantch at 06/19/2009 21:10
4chan will rape destructoid if they find out jin is being featured.
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NihonTiger90 at 06/19/2009 22:04
Jin's stuff is pretty amazing. Been following him for some time now.
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-PL- at 06/19/2009 22:21
I love the Contra ones and the Megaman ones. They were all awesome, but those stood out to me, I never actually pictured Megaman or the boss characters in a realistic way like that, except for maybe the boxart of Megaman 1. Also, the Kratos one was pretty awesome how it looked like a cartoon. Each picture of the Kratos action figure looked almost like an animation cel, really nice looking.
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JLanphear at 06/20/2009 12:31
Those are fucking incredible. AWESOME style.
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Mini-Boss at 06/20/2009 21:48
It was the proto man that sold me, so good
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