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The Art Eater Podcast
by Art Eater
Your new fav podcast ✌️. We discuss the craft of games, art, culture and media. Join Richmond, Shawn, Thomas, James and Adam - We are a group of international game industry vets and creators of the Art Eater blog (art-eater.com). Each week we are joined by an inspiring rogues gallery of artists, creators and passionate people. This is for people who love art, culture and especially gaming not to mention interesting tangents and weird facts. We hope this will be your new fav podcast.
Episodes
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98: A Gaming White Elephant
After a long hiatus, the Art Eater crew reunite to explore art, gaming, and culture through personal stories and shared inspirations. The conversation spans classical and modern art, philosophy, restoration, and identity, alongside deep dives into game design, animation, narrative structure, and...
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97: Halloween Sp--._! 2025: Ghost in the Machine - Chainsaw Man, 28 Days Later & Psycho Dead
Richmond, Sh--!! and AJ keep up the tradition of a Halloween Special! A GHOST in the Machine._11- has deleted Shaw--n!___.//'s voice from the recording--._!!! - Despite, the ghostly glitches the duo discuss the energy of the industry and the recent film, Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc along...
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94: The Vision Behind Manben - Interview with Katsumi Ueda
Richmond joined by researcher and translator, Ann Yamamoto, conducts an in-depth interview with Katsumi Ueda, the producer of the documentary series Manben Neo, hosted by Naoki Urasawa explores the unseen craft of how manga is made. The discussion covers the origins of the show, the challenges...
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95: Sinners - Layers of Discussion
Richmond, AJ and Noah Berkley (long time Art Eater film writing contributor, first time on the podcast) discusses Ryan Coogler's newest film, Sinners. The group discusses the types of discourse around the film and its layers of themes. From personal reflections to Coogler's messaging and...
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92: Rest in Peace, Akira Toriyama (鳥山明)
Richmond, Shawn and AJ offer a tribute Akira Toriyama(鳥山明) likely one of the most influential artists and creators of our lifetimes. After his tragic passing in March of 2024 - we discuss his life and work and how it has penetrated and enriched our lives. Rest in Peace, 鳥山明.
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89: Hot-Take - The Boy and The Heron
**SPOILERS - The Boy and The Heron will be discussed at length and spoiled. Go watch it first! (or not)...** Richmond, James and Mike Judge(@goro_toro) have an impromptu podcast immediately after coming out of the latest Hayao Miyazaki film, The Boy and The Heron. The crew explores the film's...
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88: Fresh Impressions - On Gaku: Our Sound (Spoilers)
SPOILERS - On Gaku will be discussed at length and spoiled. Go watch it first! (or not)... Richmond and James have an impromptu discussion after immediately after rolling the credits on the 2019 film On Gaku: Our Sound(音楽) written, directed and animated by Kenji Iwaisawa and based on the 2005...
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87: A Year of Renewal (2023 Year End)
We return to being fans rather than creators. A year of renewal and rebirth. Richmond, Thomas and AJ take some time to talk about the things they legitimately enjoyed as a fan in 2023.
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86: Crew Catch Up & Gamescom Postgame
The Art Eater Crew catches up, Richmond discusses his Gamescom and Devcom trip plus a casual postgame discussion of 2023's Gamescom focusing on the smaller upcoming games that we are excited about with plenty of tangents.
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85: Creator Interview: Zeno and Federico from Tmesis Studio
Thomas welcomes Zeno and Federico, the two talented developers from Tmesis Studios (https://twitter.com/tmesis_studio) working on the upcoming European comics inspired game "Universe For Sale". They dive into what makes Italian and French comics unique, how it influenced the game, and share...
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84: Gamescom Pregame (MK1, Persona 3 Reload, Sand Land, Black Myth: Wukong)
Join Richmond live from Germany chatting with Shawn and Thomas for a bit of a pre-game to discuss games we are excited to see more from at Gamescom 2023. We talk Mortal Kombat 1, Model kits, Persona 3 to Web vs. Game UI as well as Akira Toriyama's love of military hardware and the cultural…
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83: Baldur's Gate 3: Initial Impressions
Richmond, Shawn and Professor Andy gather for some undirected initial impressions of Larian Studios' latest CRPG, Baldur's Gate 3 as well as some discussion of older Baldur's gate titles, glowing cats, the game design philosophy, XCOM, turn-based Metal Gear and some storied encounters, fun…
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80: Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Deep Trailer Analysis (Part 1)
Richmond, AJ and Professor Andy gather for a session to dive deep into Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This is a analysis of the Tears of the Kingdom trailers but we discuss the design philosophy, themes, lore, connection to Breathe of the Wild and more! This discussion was so extensive that we…
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79: The OG Resident Evil 4
Richmond, Shawn and James have been playing the remake but WE CAN'T talk about said remake without talking about the original, genre-defining Resident Evil 4. We discuss our intro to RE4, industry context all the way to Leon's glow up and THE KICK. Join us as we gush about and revisit the…
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78: Anime Therapy: Favorite OVAs ft. Jessie Lam
Anime discussion are now called Anime Therapy! Today we dive back into OVAs today. To discuss, we are joined again by special guest and film and game industry storyboard and concept artist, Jessie Lam (@axl99) currently a Principal Concept Artist at BrassLion and has worked with many huge games,...
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77: Creator Interview: C.Bedford
The Art Eater Podcast is kicking off a new episode type with an amazing guest, C.Bedford (@cbedfordart), they are a super talented illustrator and digital painter, currently working on an awesome looking new game called "Sorry We're Closed". Rather than tackle a specific subject with our guest,...
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76: Now Playing - Comics & Manga of the Moment
Art Eater is introducing a chill new episode type - Now Playing. Where we just talk in depth about media we are currently enjoying. For the first of this type of episode, its actually a "Now Reading" but that isn't as catchy. Anyway, join the Art Eater crew as we discuss our current fav comics…
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75: Anime Discussions - OVAs of the 80s & 90s ft. Jessie Lam
Art Eater focuses on games but we cover anime as well -- today we dive head first into 80s and 90s OVAs! To discuss, we are joined by special guest and film and game industry storyboard and concept artist, Jessie Lam (@axl99) currently a Principal Concept Artist at BrassLion and has worked with...
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74: Love at First Sight ( Valentine's Day 2023)
Its Valentine's Day and The Art Eater Crew thought we would take a slightly more relaxed route and discuss, Love at First Sight in games. Although, we don't just talk about games of course -- Falling in love with fighting games, amazing statues, Batman & Robin for Playstation (that's right),...
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73: Dead Space Remake & Lovecraftian Horror (Part 1) ft. Derek Swinhart
We are joined today by game journalist and writer, Derek Swinhart to talk about the Dead Space Remake and as well as modern survival horror. We get into allegorical themes, Lovecraftian influences, Callisto Protocol parallels, the important changes in the remake and the unique dismemberment...
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72: Year of the Rabbit - CNY 2023 ft. Darius Scott Hill
We have a full house today with the Art Eater Crew and are joined by special guest, illustrator and animator, Darius Scott Hill (@burntmoth19) to celebrate Lunar New Year 2023, The Year of the Rabbit...by discussing Rabbits in games and media. We discuss the fighting game, Rabbit, Brutal: Paws of...
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71: Casual 2022 Favorites (Part 1)
Richmond, Shawn and AJ hang out and casually discuss our favorite games and media from 2022. We discuss Divinity: Original Sin, Marvel SNAP and Evil Dead: The Game and we even delve into great shows and moves including Chainsaw Man, Ranking of Kings and Reason to Leave. Grab your favorite drink…
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70: Game Awards 2022 Announcement Reactions
The Art Eater Crew discusses game announcements that were revealed during The Game Awards 2022 . From the Street Fighter 6 reveals to Hades 2 and new indie titles like Hellboy: Web of Wyrd and Replaced as well as discussing a bit of Armored Core VI : Fires of Rubicon.
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69: Eroticism in Games (Part 1)
The Art Eater crew maturely discussions eroticism in games for our 69th Episode. We discuss early games with sexual depiction in them as well as how censorship of sexual content has changed in the industry plus discussion of the range of approaches in games such as King of Fighters, Baulder's…
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68: Silent Hill 2 & Resident Evil 4 Upcoming Remakes
The Art Eater crew comes off Halloween with a discussion about the newly announced upcoming remakes of some of our favorite survival horror games, Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 4.
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67: Halloween Special 2022 ft. Gianni Matragrano
The Art Eater crew find themselves walking in a howling storm through a dark wood when they come upon a totally not haunted mansion. Taking shelter inside, the group looks for a way out of the mansion and they are joined by special guest, Gianni Matragrano, a voice actor and all around spooky…
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66: Street Fighter 6 Beta: A New Day for Bushinryu
The Art Eater Crew discusses the Street Fighter 6 Beta. A few of us had access, other didn't. We discuss the technicals of SF6, Ken and Ryu's new designs, Bushinryu in the game, overall mechanics, the BattleHub and more!
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65: Rest in Peace, Shichiro Kobayashi
A chill episode after our couple months hiatus. We use this time to celebrate and discuss the life and work of Shichiro Kobayashi, the massively influential background artist and art director of a mind-blowingly long list of anime masterpieces and classics such as Cyborg 009, Sally the Witch, The...
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64: A Dandadan Discussion ft. Joshua Santamaria
Join Richmond and special guest, Joshua Santamaria (@dammitjosh) : cheese monger, comic writer, artist and enjoyer as they have an intimate discussion about Yukinobu Tatsu's manga that is ghost plus alien plus teen romance. Of course, its 2021 manga, Dandadan(ダンダダン)
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63: Street Fighter 6: You Can't Parry Time - Announcement Impressions (P1)
The entire Art Eater crew is on for this episode as we discuss our initial thoughts and nostalgic ramblings in reaction to the announcement trailer for Street Fighter 6. We have so many thoughts that this is only Part 1.
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60: Game Trailers (Part 2)
We continue discussing our favorite game trailers with facts, tangents and history about the game across a listen-along of each trailer - a great one to listen alongside the recording! We talk Capcom vs. SNK2, Starcraft 2, Berserk(PS2), Prey 2, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Ni no Kuni…
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59: Game Trailers (Part 1)
Join Richmond and AJ as they discuss their favorite game trailers with facts, tangents and history about the game across a listen-along of each trailer - a great one to listen alongside the recording! We talk Silent Hill(s), Metal Gear Solid: Rising, Cyberpunk 2077 and more!
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58: Game Advertising (Part 3)
Art Eater keeps on rolling with our dive into Game Advertising. Richmond's favorite commercial of all-time, mascots, Batdance, Joseph Kosinski, Earthbound/Mother and more!
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57: Game Advertising (Part 2)
Art Eater has a skeleton crew this week with Richmond and AJ continuing our dive into Game Advertising. In Part 2, we discuss Japan vs. USA, Street Fighter x Tekken, Pokemon and more!
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56: Game Advertising (Part 1)
The Art Eater crew embarks upon a massive and surprisingly meaty topic. Game Advertising. In Part 1, we discuss the shockingly inappropriate, sometimes smart and often mind bending avantgarde days of early console advertising. Print ads, weird videos, demo discs and more!
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55: Luv in Games
Happy Valentine's Day! The Art Eater crew celebrates by talking about LUV in games - our favorite couples, relationships, games - discussing Pokemon, Street Fighter, Catherine, Xenogears and more. Also, Thomas sings French songs of romance and its amazing.
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54: Lead up to King of Fighters XV ft. Hellpockets
The Art Eater Crew is joined by well-known fighting game competitor and commentator, Hellpockets. We talk about his history in the FGC (Fighting Game Community), some KOF history and we dive into the upcoming release of King of Fighters XV by SNK.
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53: Year of the Tiger - CNY 2022
The Art Eater Crew brings in Chinese New Year 2022 - The Year of the Tiger by talking about...Tigers in video games! We talk Bloody Roar, Tekken, Tecmo Knight, Martial Masters, Tiger Electronics and even Ty: The Tasmanian Tiger...
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52: 2021 Recap & Discussion
The Art Eater crew comes together for our first (recording) of 2022 to talk about 2020 - Part 2 (2021) - games we played, things we enjoyed and what we are looking forward too...Turbo Teen, Resident Evil, the Sonic engine and more!
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51: DNF Duel Beta Impressions
The Art Eater Crew discusses our first impressions of the upcoming fighting game DNF Duel by 8ing & Arc System Works and our experiences and thoughts playing the recent beta test.
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50: King of Fighters XV Beta Impressions
The Art Eater crew talk about the King of Fighters XV Beta. James and Thomas, our resident fighting game experts go deep on SNK history and beta impressions.
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49: Elden Ring - Norse Mythology, Class Struggle & Forgiveness
The Art Eater crew talks Elden Ring, we start with deep analysis on Elden Ring trailers then move to Adam's experience with the beta along with extensive tangents where we speculate about Eldin Ring's story and break-down the extensive use of Norse imagery, implications of the lore and references...
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48: Halloween Special - Jump Scares, Eldritch Gods, Empathy and Animals ft. RagnarRox
The Art Eater crew finds themselves in an unnamed wood on a cold night... We are joined by an extra spooky-special guest, creator of videos on old games, horror games, indie games - RagnarRox (@RagnarRoxShow). Sit by the campfire with us while we tell of spooky games and maybe the white stag will...
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47: Favorite Fighting Game Stages ft. Mike Judge (Part 2)
The Art Eater crew is joined again by character designer and art director, "The Other" Mike Judge (@goro_toro) for Part 2 of our discussion of favorite fighting game stages. The beauty of infinite stages, education on the accurarcy of French stages...everything from KOF, Samuari Showdown, Tekken,...
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46: Favorite Fighting Game Stages ft. Mike Judge (Part 1)
The Art Eater crew is joined by character designer and art director, "The Other" Mike Judge (@goro_toro) to relax and discuss our favorite fighting game stages.
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45: Rest in Peace, Sonny Chiba
Sonny Chiba recently and tragically passed away. He was a martial artist, film maker, director, producer, singer, lyricist, voice actor and so much more. A true legend in all types of media. The Art Eater crew reflects on his amazing and influential life.
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44: Midnight Snacks
Join Richmond, Shawn and AJ for an almost 3am Games that we call...Midnight Snacks. We talk about some great games to play that aren't quite weird enough for 3am Games. Unexpected dystopian action games with anime influences, a cinematic first-person indie game,the canceled sequel to Prey, even...
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43: An Evangelion Discussion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
Join Richmond and Professor Andy for an intimate discussion of Evangelion in the form of raw reactions and thoughts from the last Evangelion movie, 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time.
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42: The Aesthetics of Sega (Part 2) ft. Chris Ekins
The Art Eater crew is joined again by Chris Ekins, the artist, programmer and composer of the fantastic indie title, Risk System (@RiskSystem_Game) to talk more about the aesthetics of Sega.
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41: The Aesthetics of Sega ft. Chris Ekins
The Art Eater crew is joined by Chris Ekins, the artist, programmer and composer of the fantastic indie title, Risk System (@RiskSystem_Game) to talk about the aesthetics of Sega, a developer and publisher that has had tremendous influence on us and the industry as a whole.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Your new fav podcast ✌️. We discuss the craft of games, art, culture and media. Join Richmond, Shawn, Thomas, James and Adam - We are a group of international game industry vets and creators of the Art Eater blog (art-eater.com). Each week we are joined by an inspiring rogues gallery of artists, creators and passionate people. This is for people who love art, culture and especially gaming not to mention interesting tangents and weird facts. We hope this will be your new fav podcast.
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Your new fav podcast ✌️. We discuss the craft of games, art, culture and media. Join Richmond, Shawn, Thomas, James and Adam - We are a group of international game industry vets and creators of the Art Eater blog (art-eater.com). Each week we are joined by an inspiring rogues gallery of artists,...
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