That’s because we get to see the polygonal fruit of their labors, which range from radical takes on Mario from Super Smash Bros., Zero from Marvel vs Capcom 3 and even a spindly, teen-aged Akuma from Street Fighter in the art contest known as “Brawl.”
Click through the gallery above from some highlights from the recently closed contest, then make your way to the Polycount forums for even more. There are dozens of additional re-imagined fighters and redesigned stages, yours for the ogling right here.
Jamie What?
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 12:10 PMI wish I were better at 3D modeling :(
Diojene
Friday, April 13, 2012 at 12:05 PMI’ve got fantastic immorees of playing this game in the arcades! They had it a a local arcade in my city centre and on weekends I used to go down there pumping my pocket money into the machine.At the time the (then) huge sprites looked amazing! admittedly the sampled speach allways sounded dogey though as if it was sampled underwater but hey the game still looked ace considering it was out in 1987!Pulling off fireballs was something of a miracle each time though seeing as the controls were er? a bit iffy! but it was worth it as it took about half of your opponents energy off!I miss Geki boo hoom sniff.
Koppenflak
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 12:19 PMI hope these chaps work in Visual Effects for a living, because that would be a lot of outright talent going to total waste otherwise.
Hakumen is especially well-realized.
Effluvium Boy
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 1:03 PMNice.
Chuloopa
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 1:09 PMi clicked through the link and WOAH.
those are just off the hook awesome :)
nightFlarer
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 1:56 PMawwww, I didn’t get Kotaku’ed.
John
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 8:03 PMZero looks… the same. Except in 3D. And he’s from Megaman Zero. Well Megaman. But they made a spinoff to Megaman Zero. And then to Marvel Vs Capcom
Roh
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 3:10 PMThat Akuma is blasphemous.
Tenka
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 11:02 PMOH MY GOD .. NetherRealm – hire that man to put his Kabal into MK9 as DLC!