Visual references - Yan

Next character is Yan, the second protagonist of the game. To begin with, his original design was more inspired in Kyo Kusanagi from KOF, so his gamestyle of fire punch combos.

His second design is still a shootout to Kyo and Shingo from the first KOF games:

He shares a couple attacks with Kyo:

While Kyo is the inspiration behind his design and concept, his big model to follow for the sprites and animations is Rock Howard from Garou: Mark of the Wolves. That includes his normals:

As well as some other various animations:

Yan also sports some mannerisms directly inspired by Rock:

Of course that's not everything. Yan takes inspiration of some other characters like K':

And Shen Woo:

Finally, the first part of his supermove is traced from K9999's gun super:

The second one, from Rock Howard's hidden super: