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‘Silent Hill 3’ Designer Reveals Inspiration Behind Robbie the Rabbit Mascot

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While Silent Hill 2‘s Pyramid Head gets the most attention from fans and media, there’s still a strong contingent that won’t let you forget about Robbie the Rabbit from Silent Hill 3. There’s always been something about that mascot of Lakeside Amusement Park that’s always unnerved people, but his origins were pretty simple.

Robbie The Rabbit’s inspiration came from Kanetake Yasunori or KY, a senior chief designer at Konami Digital Entertainment. In an interview with GameSpark (with a translation by Automaton Media), KY talks about his career at Konami, which includes the Silent Hill franchise.

When asked if there was a specific game that he felt particular attachment towards in his career, KY named Silent Hill 3. “We had to create it in a short development period of just one year after the previous game, Silent Hill 2, ended, so I got permission to go and research ruins and create backgrounds that matched the atmosphere of the game.”

During his research, KY had observed someone in a rabbit costume handing out balloons in a kids’ area on top of a train station building in Japan. With the goal of portraying “the abnormal within the normal” in Silent Hill 3, KY took this idea to Takayoshi “Usagi” Tanaka, the art director for Silent Hill 3, who brought the Robbie the Rabbit character to life.

“At the time, I never imagined that Robbie would become such a beloved character and that he would be turned into so many different kinds of merchandise.”

Robbie’s popularity obviously hasn’t been relegated to just the Silent Hill franchise. In addition to his cameos in subsequent Silent Hill entries, Robbie also appears in Metal Gear Online, as well as Behaviour Interactive’s Dead by Daylight as a costume for The Legion.

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‘Resident Evil’ Cast Reunite With Rebecca Chambers’ Actress [Watch]

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Director Andrew Saullo has just dropped the second Resident Evil cast reunion. And this time, Charlie KraslavskyGreg Smith and Eric Pirius (who played Chris Redfield, Barry Burton and Albert Wesker, respectively) are joined by the surprise addition of Rebecca Chambers’ actress, known as Linda! The quartet were joined by Saullo, as well as Residence of Evil founder JJ Trulock to discuss (what else?) their experience with Resident Evil, as well as some behind-the-scenes info on the shoot for the cutscenes.

Regarding the shoot for the cutscenes, Linda said that the experience “left a really big impact” on her at the time. “It was a big day. It was a wild shoot and it was very different than anything else that I had been doing in Japan at the time when I was modelling.” Still, Linda did remember her fellow actors, though she admitted that they all “looked a little bit different” at the time, including herself. “I remember for the shoot, I actually had blonde hair, and they spray painted my hair that morning so I would look more like Rebecca.”

As for her knowledge of Resident Evil, Linda admitted that she’s still learning about the series and her character. “I didn’t know a lot about the job, or that anyone was looking for [me] up until probably about four years ago, where someone reached out to me and they found me. But even then, I didn’t understand the magnitude of the entire situation. Only now I’m realizing like wow, there’s maybe someone out there that you know it’s like ‘Wow, that’s Rebecca Chambers!’. So it’s new to me, and I’m kind of just going with it.”

The interview (which you can check out below) also includes a special announcement of a four-part fan-made web series, which will be directed by Andrew Saullo (who also directed the fan-made short The Keeper’s Diary, in case you missed it). All four of the actors will be reprising their roles in the web series. It will not be an official Resident Evil series (for copyright reasons). Crowdfunding for the project will be launched “soon”.

 

 

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