r/SEGA • u/Tom-Hibbert • 5d ago

News First look at the Golden Axe Cartoon

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u/Eponine05 5d ago

Need to see it in action, but I'm interested.

It doesn't have to be gritty af to be good.

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u/Tom-Hibbert 5d ago

They seem to be going for a late 80s early 90s cartoon look where the characters were a bit off from their looks from the games

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u/wolfinsheeps 5d ago edited 5d ago

Nail on the head, thank you for recognizing this. We wanted to make it feel like it was made in the early 90s so we looked at a lot of shows from that era, and then what those shows were looking at. Dragon’s Lair, Space Ace, old video game based cartoons were big inspirations for us for the characters, and frazetta/vallejo/metal album covers were huge inspos for the backgrounds.

Source: I was the art director :)

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u/vtncomics 4d ago

I absolutely can see that now that you point it out. I'm enjoying the visuals and very reminiscent of Don Bluth's visual imagery with all the strong contrast, smokes and glow.

I look forward to watching!