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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's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 17:23
Blindfire
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.
SuitcoatAvenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 17:26
SuitcoatAvenger
Really digging his "realistic" interpretations of the Mega Man cast.
fetusmilk's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 17:37
fetusmilk
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.
bastardmaster's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 17:57
bastardmaster
digging the Freeman, Fallout power armor dude and especially that Kratos figure. more stylized and awesome.
awa64's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 18:02
awa64
"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.
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 18:31
s0lesurviv0r
I'm having flashbacks of Centurions looking at those megaman figures.
MAN AND MACHINE, POWER EXTREME!!!
prolifikstudio's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 18:33
prolifikstudio
Jin is really good you should see his Halo work.
viralhunter's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 18:36
viralhunter
Kennedy looks 50 :/

Everything else is pretty badass though.
bodybreak's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 19:08
bodybreak
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++.
Doomsday Forte's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 19:20
Doomsday Forte
Simply incredible. Floody Chief is pretty scary. D: And I love the "realistic" Mega Man characters. XD
Samsquantch's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 21:10
Samsquantch
4chan will rape destructoid if they find out jin is being featured.
NihonTiger90's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 22:04
NihonTiger90
Jin's stuff is pretty amazing. Been following him for some time now.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 06/19/2009 22:21
-PL-
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.
JLanphear's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/20/2009 12:31
JLanphear
Those are fucking incredible. AWESOME style.
Mini-Boss's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/20/2009 21:48
Mini-Boss
It was the proto man that sold me, so good
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