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I adore every last one of Low Poly Animals' tragically blocky crittersBig Frog? Big Frog.

Big Frog? Big Frog.

Say what you want about modern games, but they’ve gotten pretty good at rendering fauna. IfRed Dead Redemption 2wants to show you a goose, it’ll damn well show you a goose. Last month, a new Twitter account popped up to remind us that this is a fairly recent development, cataloguing the smart, strange, and downright cursed wildlife created in the name of saving a few dozen polygons.Popping up late last month, Low Poly Animals has been a recent favourite. Their feed starts on one hell of a high, too, kicking off the archival process with Daytona USA’s infamous headless seagull.Seagull from Daytona USApic.twitter.com/bAhsDReHdu— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)October 23, 2020To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settingsIt’s not all retro arcade classics, though. Remember theHalo 3rat that become so popular it spawned its ownvermin-slaying deathmatch mod? They’re here, too, in all their Xbox 360 limited glory.Rat from Halo 3pic.twitter.com/3xdtHdP016— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)October 29, 2020To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings(Granted, the poster notes that the rat’s a little too round for her taste, noting: “I want to see a literal brick with sticks for legs passed off as an animal.")The one that brought this account to my attention might still be my fave. Old SchoolRunescapestill has an incredible aesthetic, masking low polycounts with bold, flat colours. It’s no wonder the game’s menageries shows up often, but there’s one amphibian that beats them all.May I present: Big Frog.Big Frog from Runescapepic.twitter.com/bWoPVVc6MU— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)October 26, 2020To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settingsI do reckon there’s an art to all this, mind. Scrolling through the feed, you get a sense of what each developer was prioritising in their attempts to bring a particular beast to life. After all, in a racing game, who cares if you’ve only modelled the vaguest suggestion of a gull. I feel they’ve got a hell of a lot more charm, too, in a “Lion King versus the Lion King remake” kinda way.If you do want to see a wagon’s load more digital animals, you should deffo go check out Nate’s review ofevery single beast in RDR2. For now, I’ll leave this Age Of Empires Capybara in your capable hands as a parting gift.Capybara from Age of Empires IIIpic.twitter.com/7cYsVHKzu5— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)November 3, 2020To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settingsDelightful.

Say what you want about modern games, but they’ve gotten pretty good at rendering fauna. IfRed Dead Redemption 2wants to show you a goose, it’ll damn well show you a goose. Last month, a new Twitter account popped up to remind us that this is a fairly recent development, cataloguing the smart, strange, and downright cursed wildlife created in the name of saving a few dozen polygons.Popping up late last month, Low Poly Animals has been a recent favourite. Their feed starts on one hell of a high, too, kicking off the archival process with Daytona USA’s infamous headless seagull.Seagull from Daytona USApic.twitter.com/bAhsDReHdu— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)October 23, 2020To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settingsIt’s not all retro arcade classics, though. Remember theHalo 3rat that become so popular it spawned its ownvermin-slaying deathmatch mod? They’re here, too, in all their Xbox 360 limited glory.Rat from Halo 3pic.twitter.com/3xdtHdP016— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)October 29, 2020To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings(Granted, the poster notes that the rat’s a little too round for her taste, noting: “I want to see a literal brick with sticks for legs passed off as an animal.")The one that brought this account to my attention might still be my fave. Old SchoolRunescapestill has an incredible aesthetic, masking low polycounts with bold, flat colours. It’s no wonder the game’s menageries shows up often, but there’s one amphibian that beats them all.May I present: Big Frog.Big Frog from Runescapepic.twitter.com/bWoPVVc6MU— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)October 26, 2020To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settingsI do reckon there’s an art to all this, mind. Scrolling through the feed, you get a sense of what each developer was prioritising in their attempts to bring a particular beast to life. After all, in a racing game, who cares if you’ve only modelled the vaguest suggestion of a gull. I feel they’ve got a hell of a lot more charm, too, in a “Lion King versus the Lion King remake” kinda way.If you do want to see a wagon’s load more digital animals, you should deffo go check out Nate’s review ofevery single beast in RDR2. For now, I’ll leave this Age Of Empires Capybara in your capable hands as a parting gift.Capybara from Age of Empires IIIpic.twitter.com/7cYsVHKzu5— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)November 3, 2020To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settingsDelightful.

Say what you want about modern games, but they’ve gotten pretty good at rendering fauna. IfRed Dead Redemption 2wants to show you a goose, it’ll damn well show you a goose. Last month, a new Twitter account popped up to remind us that this is a fairly recent development, cataloguing the smart, strange, and downright cursed wildlife created in the name of saving a few dozen polygons.

Popping up late last month, Low Poly Animals has been a recent favourite. Their feed starts on one hell of a high, too, kicking off the archival process with Daytona USA’s infamous headless seagull.

Seagull from Daytona USApic.twitter.com/bAhsDReHdu— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)October 23, 2020

Seagull from Daytona USApic.twitter.com/bAhsDReHdu

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It’s not all retro arcade classics, though. Remember theHalo 3rat that become so popular it spawned its ownvermin-slaying deathmatch mod? They’re here, too, in all their Xbox 360 limited glory.

Rat from Halo 3pic.twitter.com/3xdtHdP016— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)October 29, 2020

Rat from Halo 3pic.twitter.com/3xdtHdP016

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(Granted, the poster notes that the rat’s a little too round for her taste, noting: “I want to see a literal brick with sticks for legs passed off as an animal.")

The one that brought this account to my attention might still be my fave. Old SchoolRunescapestill has an incredible aesthetic, masking low polycounts with bold, flat colours. It’s no wonder the game’s menageries shows up often, but there’s one amphibian that beats them all.

May I present: Big Frog.

Big Frog from Runescapepic.twitter.com/bWoPVVc6MU— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)October 26, 2020

Big Frog from Runescapepic.twitter.com/bWoPVVc6MU

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I do reckon there’s an art to all this, mind. Scrolling through the feed, you get a sense of what each developer was prioritising in their attempts to bring a particular beast to life. After all, in a racing game, who cares if you’ve only modelled the vaguest suggestion of a gull. I feel they’ve got a hell of a lot more charm, too, in a “Lion King versus the Lion King remake” kinda way.

If you do want to see a wagon’s load more digital animals, you should deffo go check out Nate’s review ofevery single beast in RDR2. For now, I’ll leave this Age Of Empires Capybara in your capable hands as a parting gift.

Capybara from Age of Empires IIIpic.twitter.com/7cYsVHKzu5— low poly animals (@lowpolyanimals)November 3, 2020

Capybara from Age of Empires IIIpic.twitter.com/7cYsVHKzu5

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Delightful.