Highly sexualized images of #MariaWhittaker from #Barbarian 2 have an immediate precedent in the designs -1977 to 1979- of American illustrator #FrankThorne for #RedSonja -a minor Robert E. Howard's character re-published by #MarvelComics- or its clone, #GhitaOfAlizarr
This subgenre was called #Erotic #Fantasy: #BlackLeather undies and metal bras but it draws from lap-dancing,#Fetish and #SadoMasochism scenes of #WestCoast of the US
#FrankThorne got into trouble there but that's another story

#MariaWhittaker was a #TopLess model who used to work for a tabloid #TheSun
In 1985, Steve Brown produced "#Barbarian, The Ultimate Warrior" #VideoGame for 8-bit computers - #Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and #Commodore C64 - for #PalaceSoftware and used #Whittaker as one of the faces of the product.
There was no motion capture back then: everything was done with props,photo retouching,and graphic design by hand But the story that I am going to tell you is not that of #Barbarian but that of #Barbarian2