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"Golden Axe" by Wolfenoctis (cdnb.artstation.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Source: Golden Axe (by Wolfenoctis ( Ben Adendorff ) - ArtStation)

Inspired by the great works of Boris Valejo, and a great old game by the name of Golden Axe (24 Colors total)

ArtStation profile: https://www.artstation.com/wolfenoctis

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[–] MisterMcBolt 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The subtle animations on this are great

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's interesting. If I'm not mistaken, the fire is animated as usual, frame by frame, but the characters breathing is done by fading between 2 frames, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Kinda looks like the abdomen animation creating the illusion of breathing is hand drawn, while the arms + weapon is indeed just fading between two frames

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The right hand of the woman flexing: D

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I miss the days of equal opportunity objectification.

Damn you, Conan the Barbarian. Damn you for not appealing to the youths.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes you wish Sega would stop neglecting their other franchises.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the greatest gaming tragedy in my mind as Sega games had huge creativity and didn't take themselves seriously..

Thankfully, some Independant developers are starting to pick up things where they left it, games like bombrush cyberfunk are incredible.. Good thing they gave the license for SOR4 too. I see some games like Dave the diver like one Sega could have developed on Saturn/Dreamcast too with its chill atmosphere and crazy mini games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Loved this game, I can still hear the weird scratchy sound effects