Taking the old Quake 1 & 2 style vertex animation techniques and cranking them up a notch with modern tech.
Infrablack Digital Industry
Check it out! The fruits of my efforts to generate a stylized 'Akira' style vertex flipbook animated particle object for Phobolis - the upward movement/scaling plus fade out effect would all be done on the particle system side - I animated here just to quickly visualize.
