Hyung-Tae Kim is a Korean artist. He has designed characters for video games such as the Magna Carta series and the later installments of the War of Genesis

War of Genesis

The War of Genesis is a SRPG series developed by Softmax, a South Korean game developing company. The series follows the history of Antaria, a fictional universe where the story is taking place...

series (War of Genesis: Tempest, War of Genesis III and War of Genesis III: Part 2).

Kim began his video games career working in the field of background music, then shifted to art and design. He has branched out into the comic book industry, serving as a guest cover artist, and has contributed to the Udon street fighter series.

Kim is currently working on an MMORPG

MMORPG

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....

 named Blade & Soul

Blade & Soul

Blade & Soul is a fantasy martial-arts massively multiplayer online role-playing game in development by Korean game developer NCsoft and its Team Bloodlust division.-History:...

 in NCsoft

NCsoft

NCsoft is a South Korea-based online video game company, which has published massively multiplayer online role-playing games including Lineage, City of Heroes, Wildstar, Exteel, Guild Wars and Aion.-History:...

. Blade & Soul

Blade & Soul

Blade & Soul is a fantasy martial-arts massively multiplayer online role-playing game in development by Korean game developer NCsoft and its Team Bloodlust division.-History:...

 is an Asian martial arts fantasy with cultural influences mainly from the Korean culture. Though it was said that he would not be an artwork illustrator but an art director, Kim appears to also handle illustrations as all artwork released for the game up to now has been by him.

Recently unveiled character artworks for Magna Carta 2 show that Kim has been working with SoftMax. There is no information released regarding the relationship between Kim and SoftMax for this game.

Kim is an artist in the manhwa

Manhwa

Manhwa is the general Korean term for comics and print cartoons . Outside of Korea, the term usually refers specifically to South Korean comics. The term, along with manga, is a cognate of the Chinese manhua...

style. His latest artworks use a deformation technique where Kim disregards anatomical accuracy to achieve a specific feel to the character.

Books containing Tae-Hyung Kim's illustrations

• Comickers Art Style Vol. 1: Color Technique (ISBN 4-5685-0292-60
• OXIDE
• OXIDE 2: Carta Numinous: Kim Hyung Tae: The Second Works (ISBN 8995594810)
• OXIDE 2x: Kim Hyung-Tae Illustrations (ISBN 4-7577-2095-5)
• Act III: Scene 8 (ISBN 8970412832)
• Io: Art of the Wired (ISBN 0973586702)
• Ragnarok Online Official Fan Book (ISBN 4-7973-2815-0)
• Range Murata's Robot Vol. 05 (ISBN 4-8982-9987-3)
• Japanese Comickers 2: Draw Manga and Anime Like Japan's Hottest Artists (ISBN 978-0060833305)
• KOREAN illustration (ISBN 978-4-8703-1792-5)
• APPLE Vol. 1 (ISBN 978-1897376362)

External links

• Official Hyung-tae Kim Website (under construction)
• "The Making of Runaway: A Sketching Tutorial by Hyung-tae Kim" from Guu Press's Magazine
• Io: Art of the Wired: An art book featuring Hyung-tae Kim, and six other artists, published by Guu Press
• Official website of Blade and Soul (Korean): Official website of Blade and Soul, which Kim is currently working for. Features video promo of game.