Affinity:Sorrow

[Barone]

Looks fantastic, to say the least!
Go Airwalk Studios! GO!

The first character's armor reminds me:



There's some darkness in the AS concep art and I like that.

[Drakon]

Awesome concept art fo sho!

[Christuserloeser]

It's been a while since an actual update has come about, but a lot has been going on. With the original graphics artist leaving the team and searching for a new one, Armen has been graciously been doing some concept art and will also take the reins of doing in game cut scenes and full screen cut scenes.

While the search comes to an end with the graphics, we present you Armen's concept art he's done so far. Hope everyone enjoys!

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I have to say that these do look fantastic! MUCH better than anything I anticipated when clicking on them. The character design looks really close to 80s Anime stuff I watched as a kid. Absolutely brilliant!

[TVC 15]

Armen, those designs look classy. They would'nt look out of place in a full colour japanese megadrive instruction manual, ala Phantasy Star or some other Megadrive classic.

Beautiful.

[Zebbe]

You sure picked the right concept artist .

Great job as always, Armen!

[Kamahl]

Dammit is Armen the only pixel artist that sticks to the job? (At least he's damn good)

[Arm]

Thanks for your compliments everyone. Being an animator, I admit my style is influenced by different animation series from the 80's/90's

[N.Saibot]

I'm sorry, am I the only one who thinks that the anime style has been overdone even during the 16-bit era? When I looked at first demo videos I was much more hyped about this game than I am now. It looked like you were going with something that doesn't look that anime'esque.

It's too late now I guess, but my bit of constructive criticism would be make it less like an anime. Also, Nex is Hoston from Pier Solar. Come on! No one is going to sue anybody, but it's just unoriginal looking. It's like Scorpion/Sub-Zero kind of similar.

[makinagenesis]

as long as its a good game i couldn't care less, it looks great up to now. A lot , if not all, RPG's borrow from each other anyway

[N.Saibot]

I've got a project for an RPG that is progressing very slowly. I hope one day I'll be able to finish it and then port it to the Mega Drive, so that everyone can see how fresh-looking a non-anime style would be.

[makinagenesis]

can you post links/pics to your concept art etc please?

[N.Saibot]

No, of course not, there is none yet. I am not a good artist, moreso in the pixel art domain. I do not mean to brag how good MY pictures would be. What I mean is, if I can get a team together to develop the game fully, not just the programming part, THEN it would have a different art direction.

[Kamahl]

I can make pixel art backgrounds somewhat, characters I can't unfortunately. Being more of a vector artist than a "pixel" one, most pixel art drawing software lacks features I need.

[makinagenesis]

No, of course not, there is none yet. I am not a good artist, moreso in the pixel art domain. I do not mean to brag how good MY pictures would be. What I mean is, if I can get a team together to develop the game fully, not just the programming part, THEN it would have a different art direction.

AH. so its basically an idea then? Well i've got around 50 game projects currently progressing very slowly . None are past the 'idea' stage yet though....Can i call myself a game maker yet?

[Arm]

Actually, the main character's face's style may remind you of Hoston because I handled the cutscenes and artworks of PS.
If you don't count a couple of games made by western companies, almost every rpgs made
on the MD are anime inspired.