Any video game art books on action combat?
I've been looking for game art books that cover action combat, particularly hack-and-slash or beat 'em up. For example, something that covers animation or vfx of Devil May Cry, Street Fighter, BlazBlue Entropy Effect, Elden Ring, FF16, etc.
Somehow I can't find literally a single one.
For example, I have the FF16 art book. Beautiful. Extensive. Covers environments and their concepts, various characters, props, etc. But no combat in detail.
I've taken a look at the DMC and Elden Ring/Souls official art books. Same thing. Overall neat illustrations and other design bits, but nothing covering combat in depth.
Even the same for official fighting game art books. Eg, from what I've seen, the Street Fighter art books more so cover illustrations, character design, etc rather than specifically showing sprite sheets or visualizing how the character moves were created in detail.
The best I've found are a couple Bitmap Books which apparently have some sprite sheets at least:
https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/the-king-of-fighters-the-ultimate-history
https://www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/fatal-fury-garou-densetsu-the-ultimate-history
Anyone know of any (physical) art books that cover action combat like animations, vfx, combat design, etc? Going a tad bit crazy searching cuz it has to exist right?
Or maybe it doesn't and I should finally give my sanity a rest