Icyflamez96
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I mean the list is kinda dumb anyway, but it's about "character designs" not a popularity contest or series that you're personally familiar with.
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Early designs for video game protagonists
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I mean the list is kinda dumb anyway, but it's about "character designs" not a popularity contest or series that you're personally familiar with.
kunonabi
Member
Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn.
Man, why did they drop this for Ms. Giant Face.
Not to mention that I feel like a celshaded art style or even a more stylized art style may have taken away from the story imho.
Those are drawings, even if they were to use them, the in-game model would look drastically different in 3d. It would probably clash with the rest of the game.
And with concept art it's never really about what looks "better", but rather what design is more realized and fits the original vision of the creator(s).
Valkerionseven
Member
I love Bayonetta's concept designs so much, they are all mostly great to amazing. Think the final product is great too! I would have loved to see and or get later in a possible 3, some of those costumes, particularly the long hair and big hat, the first with long purple hair (though can do without the batpubes)
demosthenes
Member
What the what at all the complaining about Aloy. And calling her chubby on page one. Holy shit.
Vincent Alexander
Member
Thank lord they didn't go with this cute Disney crap.Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn.
Icyflamez96
Member
The worse offense in this thread is everyone quoting that huge ass image over and over again in
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Kuriboi2k6
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TimeEffect
Member
I like current Aloy.... but if they stylized her with the original look, the whole game would have been stylized that way.
Its actually really hard to know which is better, but they decided to stick with the realism. In a sea of games that do hyper-realistic faces, it would have stuck out to have a game look like a cartoon-fantasy mixed in with realistic looking dinosaurs and machines.
I have no problem with the game going for a realistic approach, and I love Aloy regardless, but Im curious if the entire game could have been presented in a more appealing animated style... I feel like maybe it would have been a poor clashing between machine and humans
Its actually really hard to know which is better, but they decided to stick with the realism. In a sea of games that do hyper-realistic faces, it would have stuck out to have a game look like a cartoon-fantasy mixed in with realistic looking dinosaurs and machines.
I have no problem with the game going for a realistic approach, and I love Aloy regardless, but Im curious if the entire game could have been presented in a more appealing animated style... I feel like maybe it would have been a poor clashing between machine and humans
redfox088
Banned
I've been saying this since the first trailer of KH...glad to know I wasn't the only one after all these years
I kid lol (he does look like a adult Sora tho).
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
I always understood that hyperbolic language meant an exaggeration, not an outright falsehood. But sure, you showed me
And we're allowed to laugh at you for saying "what a shame they didn't go for <cute Disney princess>".
Fucking this PLEASE STOP, PEOPLE ._.
Is that really where we're at? Because in 2017 cartooney art in games isn't a scarcity either. I'm not naming examples because they sure as shit ain't obscure. What I mean to say is, that's only a hypothetical, and what's really going to make games stand out (especially as time goes on) is their small nuances and mixtures of styles, as you say (cartoon-fantasy X realistic dinos/machines)... so also, maybe. If that makes sense.
depths20XX
Member
I think people are saying she's chubby when they really mean she has a basketball head.
FFX
i think there was a dark haired tidus at some point too
I like the auron and yuna we got, but this tidus is so much better it's not even funny. I have a feeling by choosing this design and seeing him on the front cover of the game, they probably would have sold a lot more copies and got a lot better critical reception than goofy expressioned, suspenders and yellow shirted tidus.
Chasetopher
Banned
I see we're still on Aloy. I'll just see if another page or two will clear the dust a bit.
That tidus doesnt fit the game nor the personality they chose for him.
Metroid Prime's original Samus design seen at Spaceworld was pretty rough. The worst part by far was the stubby arm cannon.
The color pallet and the weird muddyness to the colors make it look like she's made of Pizza.
Because these look worse?
qualitydisc
Member
These were real Tetsuya Nomura designs included in the bonus materials of FFX HD remake, based on Nojima's dreadful FFX-2.5 novel. Whether we get a real FFX-3 in the future remains to be seen (I kinda hope not).
I was kinda hoping somebody would post Stella (FF Versus XIII) as an early design for Luna (FFXV) in this thread, just to troll all the irrational Stella fans who can't move on with their lives.
SMOK3Y
Generous Member
Chubbier?! LOL WTF...
Iva Demilcol
Member
Some early designs for Persona 5
Sorry for the quality, but you'll get to see them better when they release the official artbook
Main character early designs:
Futaba:
Yusuke:
Iwai:
The Phantom Thieves:
Certain character that you shouldn't know about unless you already finished the game:
http://imgur.com/J0pUJGW
The School:
Sorry for the quality, but you'll get to see them better when they release the official artbook
gutter_trash
Banned
The Spoony Hou
Member
I'm so into these it's not even funny. Sucks that they changed her.
Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn.
These are gorgeous and better designs than the final one.
I always hoped Halo 4 would have gone that survival route, like Chief was a bit of a scavenger, been stuck on the planet for a bit. Carrying his ammo around, looking for a way off.
Earthpainting
Member
Whoa, I didn't know Loish was involved in Horizon. Kind of wish they went with her more bespoke art styles than what they settled on.
I see no reason why it would have to clash. You can easily stylise dinosaurs and machines if needed, and would probably even have preferred it.
ScaryShark
Banned
Seriously. Most of the 'analysis' comes down to which version people most want to stick their dick in.
Dice//
Banned
It really boils down to that, dudn't it?
Death Penalty
Member
Really disheartening to see the number of people in here who would have preferred a much more typical waifish supermodel look for Aloy as opposed to the finalized design we got. I was really impressed with Aloy not being stereotypically pretty, and that more delicate Barbie doll design is counterintuitive to the things that I think made her a decent character.
Looks more like a younger Manfred Von Karma to me. I guess it would make sense that Von Karma would mold Edgey into basically himself. Unless there was originally going to be only one antagonistic prosecutor, in which case him it also makes sense that Von Karma looks like him.
I don't know why everyone's drawing a line in the sand between 'waif' Aloy and her final design as if there's this huge chasm. Obviously the final 3d model has more detailed musculature than a concept sketch but their body types are pretty similar ( thin muscular arms, narrowish shoulders, slim waist).Aloy's only 18 in the game so it makes sense that she'd have a little baby fat in her cheek since she's still growing.
In the sequel when they age up her model hopefully they go a little broader with her features like her costume model.
In the sequel when they age up her model hopefully they go a little broader with her features like her costume model.
This is the same kind of nonsense we saw with the Faith design. She is still a skinny fashion model. The concept design just looks a little cartoony.
Drilbit777
Member
Chris was much less roided up in his early design for RE 5.
SciencePilot
Member
Magnolia from Bravely Second
I feel like we dodged a bullet here. Most of these are pretty bad.
I feel like we dodged a bullet here. Most of these are pretty bad.
Dictator93
Member
Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn.
This one is really great.
MudoSkills
Volcano High Alumnus (Cum Laude)
Some early designs for Persona 5
Sorry for the quality, but you'll get to see them better when they release the official artbook
Yusuke with long hair looks great. Also a fan of Ryuji with the clown mask.
19, I think. But yeah, she's around that age.