Adaptações de estilo visual no design de personagens crossover: Street Fighter x Turma da Mônica

Abstract

The objective of this work is to report a creative experiment of visual style adaptation in the character design process in a crossover context (in which the characters of a title, franchise or media appear in another), approaching conceptual considerations, creative decisions and visual development involved in this process. Reinterpretations of six characters from "Street Fighter", the acclaimed electronic game developed by the Japanese company Capcom, were created in a graphic style similar to that of "Turma da Mônica" (Monica and Friends), a franchise created by the Brazilian cartoonist Mauricio de Sousa. The choice of these two titles was mainly due to the contrasting aspect observed in terms of visual style when observing the comparison between one and the other, in addition to the international cultural relevance of both and their presence in the Author's personal life story, a factor identified as relevant by the author creative flow traversed. In order to base the creative process, an attempt was made to carry out a theoretical survey of the main concepts to be addressed, such as character design and its construction stages, which will be presented in the initial sections of this work. The concept art presented here as the final result of this experience should be interpreted as a possibility and aesthetic-creative proposal for adequate, pertinently, to the pre-production phase of a crossover project applicable to any of the two media, whether in the insertion of video game characters into a comic book, or vice versa. Finally, it is hoped that the experience reported here may, who knows, inspire future work that fits into a similar context.