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Amazing character design
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akachan ningen
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dabookerman said:
O_O What are you yapping about? I can't think of any goth lolis in any other games other than blazblue. SC4 has some goth design but no lolis. Can you even name three other games?
Anyway, too many people in this thread are mistaking this thread for a "post your favorite characters" instead of "favorite character designs"
If games like Zelda, Halo, or SF had never been made, nobody would be claiming these designs of a peter pan kid with a sword or a generic green space man or a karate man with the sleeves cut off would be amazing character designs.
Character designs stand alone, apart from personalities of the characters or how iconic they happen to be. Use your heads, people.
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Halcyon, you certainly love your anime... Don't really have much else to say.
pizzaguysrevenge
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Thread needs less: Crappy, generic, repetitive, stupid, overly flamboyant, middle school anime characters.
Thread needs more: TEAM FORTRESS FUCKING TWO!
Thread needs more: TEAM FORTRESS FUCKING TWO!
Graphics Horse
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akachan ningen said:
You're thinking of costume design, like pretty much everyone else in this thread.
akachan ningen
Member
Graphics Horse said:
No, this isn't a thread about movies and it's not in OT. Games don't have costume designers, they have character designers.
lastendconductor
Put your snobby liquids into my mouth!
This is fucking awesome. Fuck PG-13, we need more PC-13!ghst said:go back to school master chief.
Version 3.0
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Do we have every videogame character in history in here yet? A lot of these designs could compete for "least likely to ever exist in reality" or "most unnecessarily accessorized". Very few of them strike me as well-designed.
Juvenile, over-the-top design comes with the territory, of course. But I find it funny to see it celebrated as "amazing".
Juvenile, over-the-top design comes with the territory, of course. But I find it funny to see it celebrated as "amazing".
itsinmyveins
Gets to pilot the crappy patrol labors
akachan ningen said:
I don't play many J-RPG:s, but Persona 3 and (iirc) The World Ends With you are two other kinda recent games where you've got stuff somewhat like that. And I'm sure you can find a lot more like that too.
Supervlieg
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although I dont know the games, these designs for Magna Carta are amazing
more here: http://hyung-taekim.org/gallery/
more here: http://hyung-taekim.org/gallery/
Graphics Horse
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akachan ningen said:
They have character designers who work as costume designers.
Here read this or something.
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000720/gard_01.htm
Dabookerman
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akachan ningen said:
I humbly accept your challenge.
Fine, I didn't mean literally every kid character, and I also did not necessarily mean loli in the literal sense, but whenever I see really young girls in games that I play there is always at least one gothic type character.
None of the examples I came up with mean they are bad designs, I'm sure there are more, but these are the only ones I can think of as of now. I don't play a load of Jrpgs but I am sure there are many more.
Sin and Punishment's art is great, both ingame and handdrawn.
Org.:
No single shots really do justice to the way the game looks, but anyway:
Great use of few polygons and small textures to create a style based around that, instead of downscaling higher res models.
Also, awesome use of colour and camera.
Org.:
No single shots really do justice to the way the game looks, but anyway:
Great use of few polygons and small textures to create a style based around that, instead of downscaling higher res models.
Also, awesome use of colour and camera.
freethought
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^^^Oddworld has some outstanding character art. Really unique and stylised without being too childish.
Why do these threads always turn into east vs. west art?
The people who post saying "bald space marines blah blah" then go on to post pretty mediocre typical anime character designs then those who post "anime emo belts blah blah" post mediocre western character design
Both markets have great character design even if you don't want to believe it
The people who post saying "bald space marines blah blah" then go on to post pretty mediocre typical anime character designs then those who post "anime emo belts blah blah" post mediocre western character design
Both markets have great character design even if you don't want to believe it
Dabookerman
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dabookerman said:
I think I just realised something...
Alex Connolly
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The character designs in Rengoku/Rengoku 2 are some of my favourites...the strange mix of biomecha tickles my fancy. Not to mention, the actual game features some really good aesthetic character changes depending on weapon assignment. To a lesser extent, it's nice to see classic literature (yep, dependable ol' Dante's Divine Comedy) squeezed into a nice, dark cyberpunk dungeon crawler.
Again, great character designs.
Spirit of Jazz
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With the amount of shitty generic anime crap popping up here I can see why GAF hate's the Gear's art style.
The On Timers
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:lol "Starring the Uk's number one hero."
hahaha
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pancakesandsex
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zoku88 said:
Randy is fucking pimp. Don't hate.
agree with all the shinkawa stuff in this thread
http://wallpapers.dpics.org/wallpapers/18/Prince_of_Persia_-_The_Sands_of_Time,_2003.jpg
Awesome. I love the prince.
http://soulcaliburuniverse.com/images/sc4/3dchars/siegfried.jpg
http://soulcaliburuniverse.com/images/sc4/3dchars/mitsurugi.jpg
These two are always cool.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4240/imagessxo6.jpg
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/goldensun/images/thumb/4/42/Gs-isaac.jpg/250px-Gs-isaac.jpg
Golden Sun's art style is somewhat generic anime but i really like the clothing and architecture of the buildings, and the characters stand out to me.
http://www.ripten.com/wp-content/gallery/killzone-concept-art/killzone-concept-art-15.jpg
Can't wait to see this come to life. Love Killzone 2 and KZ1's art. Yes I know what it's ripped from. Don't care.
http://fc29.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/117/5/c/Prince_Arthas_Menethil_by_pulyx.jpg
Love everything Blizzard does art and character wise. They do high fantasy and space marines right dammit. Two gaming cliches and they make it vibrant and unique.
http://wallpapers.dpics.org/wallpapers/18/Prince_of_Persia_-_The_Sands_of_Time,_2003.jpg
Awesome. I love the prince.
http://soulcaliburuniverse.com/images/sc4/3dchars/siegfried.jpg
http://soulcaliburuniverse.com/images/sc4/3dchars/mitsurugi.jpg
These two are always cool.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4240/imagessxo6.jpg
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/goldensun/images/thumb/4/42/Gs-isaac.jpg/250px-Gs-isaac.jpg
Golden Sun's art style is somewhat generic anime but i really like the clothing and architecture of the buildings, and the characters stand out to me.
http://www.ripten.com/wp-content/gallery/killzone-concept-art/killzone-concept-art-15.jpg
Can't wait to see this come to life. Love Killzone 2 and KZ1's art. Yes I know what it's ripped from. Don't care.
http://fc29.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/117/5/c/Prince_Arthas_Menethil_by_pulyx.jpg
Love everything Blizzard does art and character wise. They do high fantasy and space marines right dammit. Two gaming cliches and they make it vibrant and unique.
eXistor
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While that is very true, the thread is kinda about the actual character design not the character itself.Tr4nce said:
For me personally, one of the greatest videogame characters ever. This guy has had so many dumb remarks, questions, remarks and funny jokes. He is one of the best characters ever created.
sciplore said:
I spent a LOT of time down in the Visualisation office and I never saw any Jinroh reference art. Once you've taken the Nazi uniform as your base and decided to go the fully enclosed armour route, is it really possible to get anything that DOESN'T look like that?
Not saying they don't look similar, but just saying that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, so to speak.
funkmastergeneral
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eXistor said:
I always though the character design was the visual and personality characteristics of someone.
Regulus Tera
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dabookerman said:
Those two are most certainly not goth (though the second one looks emo, facially speaking).
JimtotheHum
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LCfiner said:Big Daddies were cool
one of the most original character designs out there...truly amazing
Hey guys, OP here. Some great stuff is being posted, but I thought I'd make a few suggestions:
- Please name the character(s) -- or at least the game -- of each artpiece. There's a lot of awesome stuff in here I simply don't recognize!
- Please understand this thread is about what designs work for you personally. Art is subjective; there is no right or wrong in what you find amazing.
I think it might also help to explain why they work for you. I tried to do so in the OP. I know not everyone likes anime, the Gothic, et al, and I usually don't either (emphasis so I'm not branded a fan), but I tried to explain why Ashlotte struck a chord with me.
For me, good design is design that jumps out of the crowd with a singular look, and that has lots of interesting details while having an overall style. In my eyes Ashlotte most definitely jumps out -- if you're like me she hit you upside the head when you entered the thread. Her overall style is a cold, sleek take on the Gothic Lolita, applying it to a robot, and there's plenty of finer details to absorb, like the mannequin legs and the heart-shaped window on her belly revealing cogs inside.
Of course, there are aspects of Ashlotte that'll work wonders for me that simply won't affect others. For one, I love clockwork.
A few other comments: I really like the Mass Effect artwork. Especially the red alien with the bulbous, whale-like head. Oddworld definitely has a distinct flavor as well. While at first blush it seems almost too strange (yes, this coming from the Goth Loli robot guy), it has this colorful warmth that makes it cozy and inviting. OH! And I also liked that wallpaper -- Shin something or another -- with the highly stylized take on figures from End Times mythology, like the skeletal-faced, cloaked figures riding horses covered in eyes and the multi-headed dragon wearing crowns. It was posted earlier in the thread.
Keep it comin'!
- Please name the character(s) -- or at least the game -- of each artpiece. There's a lot of awesome stuff in here I simply don't recognize!
- Please understand this thread is about what designs work for you personally. Art is subjective; there is no right or wrong in what you find amazing.
I think it might also help to explain why they work for you. I tried to do so in the OP. I know not everyone likes anime, the Gothic, et al, and I usually don't either (emphasis so I'm not branded a fan), but I tried to explain why Ashlotte struck a chord with me.
For me, good design is design that jumps out of the crowd with a singular look, and that has lots of interesting details while having an overall style. In my eyes Ashlotte most definitely jumps out -- if you're like me she hit you upside the head when you entered the thread. Her overall style is a cold, sleek take on the Gothic Lolita, applying it to a robot, and there's plenty of finer details to absorb, like the mannequin legs and the heart-shaped window on her belly revealing cogs inside.
Of course, there are aspects of Ashlotte that'll work wonders for me that simply won't affect others. For one, I love clockwork.
A few other comments: I really like the Mass Effect artwork. Especially the red alien with the bulbous, whale-like head. Oddworld definitely has a distinct flavor as well. While at first blush it seems almost too strange (yes, this coming from the Goth Loli robot guy), it has this colorful warmth that makes it cozy and inviting. OH! And I also liked that wallpaper -- Shin something or another -- with the highly stylized take on figures from End Times mythology, like the skeletal-faced, cloaked figures riding horses covered in eyes and the multi-headed dragon wearing crowns. It was posted earlier in the thread.
Keep it comin'!