Tribute Upheaval

A bestiary, in progress.

Every creature is a continuous skinned surface bound to at most 32 bones, compiled by the same reference implementation that defines what the console's silicon must produce, and rendered one frame at a time at 384 by 240 through the real RGB565 path. The crayon on them is lifted from the concept drawings themselves.

Zixxtrixx

snake

The first creature, from two concept sheets by S. Hofer. One continuous chain of 20 sides and 57 stations whose taper is measured off the drawing itself, wearing crayon lifted from the same scans. Twenty-seven bones. He has one trick. He also has six tricks.

The first Zixxtrixx: a flat horizontal snake with muted colours
The first Zixxtrixx attack, with the tail arcing up and back