Future Exo Soldiers - Castle

It's been a while since I posted anything, mostly due to finals... and laziness, so here's something I've been putting off for months now. An old drawing redone. These are operators from my "fantasy" tier 1 unit. I'm actually really happy with how it turned out, especially my custom rifle! This piece became increasingly inspired by Oscar Johansson's "Castle" animations. deletionquality.net/ I strongly recommend that anyone interested in military or dark fantasy check out his work. While working on this, I've been listening to the song used in the credits of one of his animations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsE5PN… Though I'm not typically a fan of metal, it's great for the appropriate atmosphere!

I took heavy inspiration for my world from Oscar Johansson's "Castle" animation series. It was one of my childhood favourites and still is. There is a really obvious reference to his work in the picture. Any other fans out there? My version uses the same premise of the military, having developed a portal to another dimension, searching for a new source of energy to satiate humanity's demands. Where it differs, however, is in the world itself. Rather than being more or less a wasteland populated only by dark creatures and powerful entities, it has a living population with technology close to the medieval era. Starting off as a joke, it developed based on my Tom Clancy-style military fantasy versus the "standard fantasy setting". This military unit also operates with the intent of remaining unseen, and following the few instances where they were seen (often with cloaking tech much like Advanced Warfare or Ghost Recon), the local population assumed them to be some sort of supernatural beings or even demons. It may be dumb but it's fun to have my own setting to develop.