Not content with just giving us an ever-growing roster of realistic Super Smash Bros. character designs, God of War art director Raf Grassetti kickstarted 2020 with a new take on the Star Fox crew. We shared the beginning of this new series earlier this month, but now it's finished and it's as wonderful as you'd expect.
Joining Fox McCloud is Slippy Toad, Falco, Wolf, and Peppy Hare, complete with that familiar 'realistic' aesthetic. In an Instagram post shared with his followers, Grassetti said, "Star Fox was a big part of my intro to video games growing up and I feel very happy and fortunate to be able to create my own version of the characters. Hope you like it and that this image brings back memories and somehow makes you happy".
If you scroll through the images in the post above, you can take a more detailed look at each character individually. Wolf looks more terrifying than ever.
Would you like to see a new Star Fox game with this realistic art-style? Would you like to see a new Star Fox game in any shape or form, for that matter? Share your thoughts with us below.
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this looks good, he does a great job
While his other nintendo characters in his artstyle looked good but wouldn’t translate to an actual game, this on the other hand looks like it would translate well into an actual star fox reboot.
@SuperGhirahim64 I'd love a remake of any star fox game with this art Gorgeous!
Looks amazing, still want to punch Flippy in the face for being so annoying
Congratulations to the artist!
Well you say the whole gang, but there's other members of Star Fox and Star Wolf that could be drawn, as well as Andross.
I really want a new Starfox like Assault (but much better, of course), I think it´s what this series need.
Although this art style looks pretty good, the Starfox Zero style is more accurate, imo.
These are incredible pieces of art. I am very impressed. Would love a game and movie that had these characters in it.
It's not easy to make cartoonish characters look realistic without them falling into the uncanny valley, but Grassetti really pulls it off! Needless to say, I'm impressed.
@SuperGhirahim64 I'd love to see him remake Star Fox Adventures characters like this. Say what you will about the game but it did have some pretty nice character designs, on both the Dino-Planet and the SFTeam.
Hmm, a smidge better than my stick men
Where's Krystal?
@the_beaver that might be a good direction. They definitely shouldn’t do another remake or reinterpretation of the first title like they have done several times. Id personally like to see a mix between Adventure and Assault but better.. For a pure on rails game, Id prefer another Sin and Punishment title.
Do you guys not even realize there ARE a plethora of other, talented artists out there, who would LOVE to be featured like this?
This artist is talented, I have never disputed that. But while you feature him over and over and over just because his name is tied to God of War and thus earns you clicks, there are a bunch of talented fan artists out there being ignored.
What is this, the 5th time you've featured this guy? More? Please share the love! Do you need someone to put together articles like that? Are you looking for suggestions because you don't know where to look? Or do you only care because the God of War name gets extra clicks?
Incredible artwork, would like to see a new Starfox or Nintendo bring us remasters of Starfox 64. Or Starfox zero without the silly controls.
Nintendo really should put Star Fox Zero behind them and work on a brand new Star fox and try and make it unique, maybe open world
Yeah, and it's stil coasting on his name and reputation as "the art director of God Of War" there are hundreds of fan artists who produce art, that is just as good or better.
But they aren't in the industry or a "name artist" or "the art director of", so not worth bothering with eh ?
@Heavyarms55
Got Ninja'd again.
https://www.deviantart.com/zombie-graves/art/Star-Fox-459580240
https://www.deviantart.com/genzoman/art/Star-Fox-336878924
https://www.deviantart.com/jecbrush/art/Star-Fox-Crew-and-OC-s-265197927
And that's what I found in 30 seconds.
But nah realistic and God Of War ART Director is da bestest.
@Bunkerneath So, I know you meant to say Slippy, but now I'm imagining what it would be like if he had a cousin named Flippy, who would be the son of his uncle Grippy from Star Fox Guard... I'm sure he'd be more annoying than Slippy, and now I want to punch him in the face.
@SuperGhirahim64 that’d be awesome but I doubt it’d happen unless the game was done by a third party like Retro.
These are really cool. I would like to see a game with these designs.
We much prefer all our Nintendo games in 900p cell shaded cartoon graphics please.
I thought Nintendo fans didn't want a xbox series x power level console. I'm so confused how threads are so different from each other.
His Smash Bros were sometimes hit and miss but these are all perfect.
These are near-perfection! I'd play a series game (or reboot) that uses this art style!
He is a talented guy.
But, as with the Smash characters before, his take on them is quite nightmarish I feel.
Impossibly awesome.
I'd love to see him do Krystal in this art style. The only person that has come close to creating a Krystal that looked lifelike was an artist by the name of CakeInferno (formerly known as GreyFireFox).
These don't look that different from how they are depicted in Star Fox Zero, although there is more detail here. And I know what foxes look like, and while this is good art, it's not terrible realistic. Has everyone's concept of "realistic" been forever damaged by the trauma of Paramount/Sega's original Sonic the Manhog trailer?
I love these! New game in this art style, let’s go!
Some of his other stuff has turned out a little odd looking, but all of these work well.
I love God of War (its my current game at the moment; very surprising since I hate this genre), but I don't think realistic looks quite good on anthropomorphic Nintendo characters.
Although the old school Nintendo Power advertisements featured a realistic Fox.
Fox and Falco could be a bit more on-model, but A) this is still seriously impressive and B) the other 3 are FANTASTIC! Well done!!
That's very nice.
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