Post by Z451 on Apr 11, 2014 3:01:21 GMT
Captain Sawada
Captain Sawada (Kyaputen Sawada) is an original character from the 1994 Street Fighter film, who appears as a playable character in both the arcade and the console version of the Street Fighter: The Movie video game.
Sawada's voice is the only one dubbed in the film, as Sawada himself only speaks a little English.
At the time, Capcom pushed heavily to promote actor Kenya Sawada by any means possible, giving the staff behind the film and game the impression that he was to be the "face" of Capcom, their own action hero to star in later material.
Sawada is characterized as Guile's right-hand man and the leader of the AN commando force.
He is a hand-to-hand combat specialist who is proficient in all kinds of martial arts.
His role in the film is very minor.
He speaks and fights only a few times in the film, in which he commands a small force of ground troops in the assault on Bison's base.
Yet he appears amongst the main characters as they take a pose at the end of the film.
His design in the video game varies somewhat from that in the film.
The developers who worked on the arcade version had him go shirtless, based on the fact he was "buff" and partly inspired by Mortal Kombat II characters of the time.
Had this presented a problem, the staff would have opted to have a shirt painted over his sprites.
The design resembled that of Fei Long in many ways and led to the actor being involved in digitizing sessions for both Sawada and Fei Long.
For Fei Long, the design needed little alteration beyond a change of pants, shoes, and hair.
However, Fei Long's frames were never cleaned due to time constraints, leaving only Sawada.
Despite speculation to the contrary, Sawada is unarmed in the arcade game.
What appeared to be a "katana" was intended at the time to be "motion blur", but because of a conflict between the two capcom branches, flicker transparency was not applied and it was left solid.
Sawada's slashing attacks were intended to have an ethereal appearance akin to the Hadouken.
The designers argued for the flicker effect but were denied, and they opted instead for a look based on Mortal Kombat's effects at the time.
Later appearances in the console version of the game changed this and gave him a katana.
Michael Dobson voiced Sawada in two episodes of the Street Fighter television series, as head of the A.N. Special Forces when Guile was discharged and formed his team.
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Sawada's voice is the only one dubbed in the film, as Sawada himself only speaks a little English.
At the time, Capcom pushed heavily to promote actor Kenya Sawada by any means possible, giving the staff behind the film and game the impression that he was to be the "face" of Capcom, their own action hero to star in later material.
Sawada is characterized as Guile's right-hand man and the leader of the AN commando force.
He is a hand-to-hand combat specialist who is proficient in all kinds of martial arts.
His role in the film is very minor.
He speaks and fights only a few times in the film, in which he commands a small force of ground troops in the assault on Bison's base.
Yet he appears amongst the main characters as they take a pose at the end of the film.
His design in the video game varies somewhat from that in the film.
The developers who worked on the arcade version had him go shirtless, based on the fact he was "buff" and partly inspired by Mortal Kombat II characters of the time.
Had this presented a problem, the staff would have opted to have a shirt painted over his sprites.
The design resembled that of Fei Long in many ways and led to the actor being involved in digitizing sessions for both Sawada and Fei Long.
For Fei Long, the design needed little alteration beyond a change of pants, shoes, and hair.
However, Fei Long's frames were never cleaned due to time constraints, leaving only Sawada.
Despite speculation to the contrary, Sawada is unarmed in the arcade game.
What appeared to be a "katana" was intended at the time to be "motion blur", but because of a conflict between the two capcom branches, flicker transparency was not applied and it was left solid.
Sawada's slashing attacks were intended to have an ethereal appearance akin to the Hadouken.
The designers argued for the flicker effect but were denied, and they opted instead for a look based on Mortal Kombat's effects at the time.
Later appearances in the console version of the game changed this and gave him a katana.
Michael Dobson voiced Sawada in two episodes of the Street Fighter television series, as head of the A.N. Special Forces when Guile was discharged and formed his team.
Links
Wikipedia
Street Fighter Wiki
Copyright Owner
Capcom
Record:
W:
L:
