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Feedback and Suggestions / My thoughts on the art direction. (this wont make me popular.)
« on: May 13, 2013, 09:56:56 pm »
So im quite enjoying your game, but im concerned about the art direction and what it might evolve into.
Im not looking to make your game serve my personal fancies, but i feel what i have to say could be useful. Maybe i can even find someone who shares my opinion, you never know.
The very core of what im gonna say is, dont go anime on me. That statement has nothing to do with the japanese art style by the way. What im saying is, please let the world be ugly too. Dont let your characters devolve into fairy-faced magazine models, dont shove six-packs, rippling biceps, thunder thighs, or granite buns in my face. And no skeletal, balloon chested, doll-mask chicks either.
I make that sound very demanding, its obviously your game in the end, but id like to see a small revolt against these pedestal-stereotypes that so many franchises peddle. Because they are incredibly boring, Not at all visually engaging.
Your artists did not draw slim, smooth-skinned, streamlined figures in art school.
Im basing all this crap on these concepts:
There are two, VERY slightly varying bodytypes here, a male and a female. I see the underlying strokes of this, And i think theyre good, and i declare that you can do better.
Even technically, its not unthinkable to have a dynamically varying body shape.
Im not looking to make your game serve my personal fancies, but i feel what i have to say could be useful. Maybe i can even find someone who shares my opinion, you never know.
The very core of what im gonna say is, dont go anime on me. That statement has nothing to do with the japanese art style by the way. What im saying is, please let the world be ugly too. Dont let your characters devolve into fairy-faced magazine models, dont shove six-packs, rippling biceps, thunder thighs, or granite buns in my face. And no skeletal, balloon chested, doll-mask chicks either.
I make that sound very demanding, its obviously your game in the end, but id like to see a small revolt against these pedestal-stereotypes that so many franchises peddle. Because they are incredibly boring, Not at all visually engaging.
Your artists did not draw slim, smooth-skinned, streamlined figures in art school.
Im basing all this crap on these concepts:
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There are two, VERY slightly varying bodytypes here, a male and a female. I see the underlying strokes of this, And i think theyre good, and i declare that you can do better.
Even technically, its not unthinkable to have a dynamically varying body shape.