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Greetings!

My name is John Kim and I'm an artist with Gaia. Currently I'm the Art Director of zOMG, and I'm really passionate about the game and its community. If you haven't played zOMG! you should check it out - we're constantly working on making the game more fun.

I've always been really enthusiastic about art with my main inspirations being Manga and American comics. I used to be a fan artist and went to the Academy of Art College in San Francisco graduating with a BFA in I llustration. After that I started working in the gaming industry and worked on several titles, the most famous probably being Sims 2. In November 04 I started working for Gaia. Back then we were only 3 artists! My main focus was housing, but I also created some items, like the Ancient Katana DI. My biggest project on Gaia, aside from zOMG of course, was the Zurg Plot that began Halloween 06. I played some of the NPCs and did most of the comics for that event. I realize that that event wasn't perfect but we had a really great time anyway. I hope the Zurg can come back to Gaia soon smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif I'm also a member of the Zurg Hive and we're currently in the process of taking over Gaia.

In my free time I occasionally play games, watch some sci-fi TV-shows and check out new gadgets. I used to play a lot of Lineage 2 (a Sagittarius, which is an archer, with a Shillien Saint subclass, which is a healer/buffer/recharger and an Adventurer subclass, which is a dagger) but I haven't really had the time to keep up with it in the last year. I'm also really into movies - I collect blurays, especially sci-fi and action, but I'm really into any genre (Team Edward FTW!!!! - just kidding, lol). My favorite cuisines are Japanese, Italian and Mexican and my favorite ice cream is strawberry mochi ice cream.

In general I'm a rather quiet and private person, so if I'm not very talkative, I'm not trying to be rude, that's just me.

My friends also like to joke that I'm into "the female form". As a fan artist I always enjoyed drawing sexy girls, but cool guys in dynamic poses as well. I really like a lot of the old school 2D fighting games, like King of Fighters, Street Fighters and Samurai Showdown series. Among my favorite artists and biggest influences are Kotobuki Tsukasa, Obari Masami, Terada Katsuya, Range Murata, Tsukasa Bullet, Mine Yoshizaki, Kenichi Sonoda, Satoshi Urushihara, Ugetsu Hakua, Kentaro Miura and Nobuteru Yuuki and few others.

Currently playing: Witcher 2 and StarCraft 2.

If you want me to wipe the floor with your fayse, you can challenge me in Street Fighter IV on Xbox live, you can contact me for my ID.

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XxhaniefxX

Report | 05/29/2012 12:21 am

XxhaniefxX

i've see your thread about bloodstone raffle (i forgot the name) i just want to ask

how to roll the dice!!!!!!!!!!!!!! stressed stressed
Simply Geek

Report | 05/27/2012 2:27 pm

Simply Geek

John your zOMG servers are lagging xD !
-leaves a sticky note- o -o*
beckygrendel

Report | 05/26/2012 4:47 am

beckygrendel

Oh. My. Gosh.
How did I not figure that out? 4laugh A lot of things make more sense now!

Thanks for being the awesome person that you are!
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`unchained melody

Report | 05/25/2012 10:03 am

`unchained melody

I'll wipe the floor with YOUR fayse.
Cherry Springer

Report | 05/20/2012 2:48 pm

Cherry Springer

DAT SONG.
Insane Pillow

Report | 05/17/2012 8:46 am

Insane Pillow

Best song ever.
scullylam

Report | 05/16/2012 10:05 pm

scullylam

wow your profile needs some love. here enjoy this. emotion_awesome
Owlie

Report | 04/27/2012 5:40 pm

Owlie

Come back to the dev meat and spawn more vases! emotion_kirakira
Lyca_Watyre

Report | 04/24/2012 2:43 pm

Lyca_Watyre

Glad to see you're still around. heart
jellykans

Report | 04/20/2012 11:31 am

jellykans

The Assassin of Doom - Today is April 18, 2012...this thread was made on April 30, 2010. We should have a 2 year anniversary meet, no? That means you need to come, just so you know smile