Our heroes, now in 3D

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The first prototypes of Ethernal Oath used pixel-art sprites. They told us what the game could be, but not what it should look like.

We tested four directions side by side: toon 3D, anime illustrations, gacha-style 3D and chibi 3D. In battle, the chibi models won. They read well on a phone screen, their poses carry personality, and every Echo can be animated instead of flashed.

Every hero on this site is now a rigged 3D model with its own combat stance. The portraits you see in the codex are rendered straight from those models.

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