Akira Yasuda, better known as "Akiman" is about as big as they come among Japanese game designers and illustrators.
Besides designing and planning titles like Forgotten Worlds, Final Fight, and Street Fighter II, he's created some of gaming's most iconic characters and art, such as for, again, Street Fighter II.
For a guy with credits like that, you'd think he'd command a high price for illustrative work. And you'd think that Enterbrain, the publisher of Japan's biggest game magazine Famitsu, would know that.
According to Akiman's blog, Enterbrain offered Akiman ¥8,000 (US$103) for six drawings for a game character. If the drawings took, say, two days, that would mean he'd get fifty dollars a day. If they took four days, then he's get twenty-five bucks a day. And so on.
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I'll be honest- I only clicked for the picture
*lowers head in shame*
That is beyond cheap.
That really sucks.
I would personally pay him 10 times as much to do my portrait. Then I would light a cigar with a 10,000 yen note.
Really I was expecting a gallery at least