How Metal Gear Solid's Artist Helped Pacific Rim
In this bonus video interview, we steer away from our month of coverage on Metal Gear Solid V to share the inside story on an unexpected collaboration. Metal Gear Solid's art director Yoji Shinkawa is well known for his designs of multiple Metal Gears and the orbital frames in Zone of the Enders, but his work with Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim was his first entry into the world of Hollywood films. To learn more about Shinkawa's career working on Metal Gear Solid, check out our video interview about his past and the future of the series.
Watch the video below to learn how this collaboration happened and the only aspect of the work that disappointed Shinkawa.
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