Eyup, LoK gang, I have a question for people who have access to The Dead Shall Rise comic. @songbird-and-her-fos inflicted shared some screenshots of Ascendance with me, and they're still haunting me.
There are a load of tells in these of an artist who is just not very experienced or good at pixel art. The green outlines in Raziel here are a really good example of jagged uneven curves that would not have been left by anyone who knew what they were doing. It's difficult to tell if the Janos attack scene fell into the beginner pitfall of having way too many similar colours, making the whole thing look more like a compressed jpeg than intentional pixel art, because a filter was put over it after the art was done and blown up to its final size, resulting in something that does not look good.
But it's the last two that have such a weird mix of stark contrasts and weirdly smooth colour shading that feels almost like the different elements were drawn by different people that made something click. They don't, to me, look like images meant to be pixel art. And the third picture, with the crow, feels weirdly familiar. So I have a theory that some or all of these were at least partially traced from the comic. Unfortunately, the comic scan I read was taken down, so can anyone with access to the comic confirm/disprove this theory?
Its because some were actually ripped straight off the comic 😭 some are slightly redone and/or frankensteied together to make a single image, as you can see with elaleth
OP you're 100% correct. Just to showcase how 1:1 all of the ascendance pixel cutscenes are. I'm almost certain all of the cutscenes are traced and frankensteined like binglebawb mentioned either from TDSR or the Melchiah comic (the first one in this set that's super detailed). Having to churn out the game in approximately a year's time is probably a big factor as well
