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[sciplore]

WTF I just realized...

Disney copied Nintendo's design.

When will Americans get their own ideas?

Japan for life!

Are you serious or is this a mockery of the killzone 2 designs and that anime it stole "heavily borrowed" from post?

 

[Blizzard]

Amazing is an understatement

Not very similar I suppose, but

 

[Death_Born]

Ok, now everyone's posting generic power armor? GOW? Dead Space? REALLY?

 

[wolfmat]

What the fuck is with this thread? Anime chicks with weird shit hanging off them, alien knockoffs and space armor dudes. Holy crap.

To each his own, I guess.

 

[Skittleguy]

Yoshitaka Amano is godly.

 

[H_Prestige]

http://finalcars.blog.playersrepublic.fr/images/medium_final-fantasy-versus-xiii-1.3.jpg
http://www.megatonnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/final-fantasy-xiii-xbox-360.jpg
http://www.fashionwindows.com/news/images/2008/06/balthier.jpg

 

[Catalix]

Very fond of this one for some reason. Never even played the damn game.

 

[bloodforge]

Yoshitaka Amano is godly.

I'm sure I'll be the only one to admit it, but I think Amano's art is damn ugly.

 

[wolfmat]

Very fond of this one for some reason. Never even played the damn game.

I like the facial expression. - it appears her right knee is broken though
And I'm weirded out by the cat ears and the tail.

 

[BigBoss]

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[Catalix]

I like the facial expression. - it appears her right knee is broken though
And I'm weirded out by the cat ears and the tail.

lol, knee is weird. Not even sure it's official art actually.

Color combo grabs my eye though.

 

[mr stroke]

I think that's more of a great game making a character by default. Like you say, he's horribly generic. After all, he may not be bald, but he's still pretty much a space marine.

and so is-

while the Storm Troopers generic its still design brilliance IMO.


screw the Master Chief hate. IMO his design is brilliant, a while sure its nothing original, either is the hundreds of anime inspired themes that every Japanese dev uses over and over.

(and in terms of "generic space marines" is there really any better than Master Chief?)

 

[kuYuri]

http://icicle.f2s.com/site/images/okami-beauty.jpg

You're using the wrong picture.

 

[pancakesandsex]

Some personal favorites:


Satoshi Urushihara

Mutsumi Inomata:

This one isn't her design but it's pretty.

The guys flight plan uses for character designs. Don't know the names yet.

 

[Hellion]

 

[GremlinInTheMachine]

I like the innocence of Capcom's designs.

 

[zoku88]

Some personal favorites:


Satoshi Urushihara

You picked a guy to show of his work. Seriously? :lol


Btw, I think the Flight Plan person is Kouhaku Kuroboshi. 黒星紅白

Wiki said so, at least. And I've been to his site before and recognize the art.

 

[ThaiGrocer]

Salsa by default...

 

[UraMallas]

Amy pic.

So hot.

So sweet. Sweet, sweet, she's so sweet.

 

[Slavik81]

but he's got a half-tuck and a faux-hawk, the pinnacle of unique character design

As a defense, Nathan Drake was clearly designed to be generic. His character design achieves exactly what it sets out to do.

 

[Raging Spaniard]

As usual by page 2 this all degenerated into lets put any character from any game ever...

I really dont understand the Nomura hate, way to uderrate the guys work.

 

[SuperDowns]

 

[Auron_Kale]

Strangely, one of my favorite Amano designs (that was updated for the DS version) is this one:

I really love all of the details in Kain's armor, particularly the dragon helm.

 

[dfyb]

while the Storm Troopers generic its still design brilliance IMO.

(and in terms of "generic space marines" is there really any better than Master Chief?)

the stormtrooper has shapes that are legitimately inventive. masterchief is basically the doom marine with a paintball mask/motocross helmet on -- there's little inventive about his design.

 

[Pimpbaa]

I really dont understand the Nomura hate, way to uderrate the guys work.

Because he puts the same damn face on every character (Gackt), both male and female.

 

[Mumei]

Okami for me. Art of Okami has some amazing artwork on it:

 

[ZealousD]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/DoK.jpg

A gorilla with a tie.

A GORILLA WITH A TIE.

Can't get any better than that.

I see your gorilla with a tie and I raise you...

A BLUE WOLF WITH A SCARRED EYE, CHAINS, AND A FUCKING PIPE

 

[GhaleonEB]

screw the Master Chief hate. IMO his design is brilliant, a while sure its nothing original, either is the hundreds of anime inspired themes that every Japanese dev uses over and over.

(and in terms of "generic space marines" is there really any better than Master Chief?)

And I maintain that there's a lot of nuance in the Chief that makes him as iconic as he is. There are a lot of generic space marines, made generic by not creating as distinctive a design.

 

[LethaL ImpuLse]

 

[GeneralIroh]

Yoshitaka Amano is godly.

:lol :lol :lol
You chose the worst amano art. Amano is a great artist but I prefer Nomura.

 

[MaximumCarnage]

 

[Slavik81]

http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/Superdowns/Pheonix_Wright_2_Wallpaper_1280.jpg

As much as I love Phoenix Wright, I don't really like the design of his character, or really any of his friends, aside from Gumshoe and the prosecutors...

 

[Kadey]

 

[MickeyKnox]

Masterchief's design is blatantly lifted from Roughnecks, the CG animated Starship Troopers show from the late '90s.

 

[Skittleguy]

:lol :lol :lol
You chose the worst amano art. Amano is a great artist but I prefer Nomura.

I like it. It's beauty comes through in it's simplicity and influences in the ukiyo-e style.

 

[dfyb]

(hey, it was not only a mech suit - it was self-aware and could carry on conversation)

and those of you discounting killzone 2 need to realize that the helghast grunt is only one design, out of many. parts were surely inspired by jin roh, but killzone 2 sports some top tier design regardless.

 

[GeneralIroh]

Masterchief's design is blatantly lifted from Roughnecks, the CG animated Starship Troopers show from the late '90s.

dont forget doom and motor cross bikers.

 

[Iksenpets]

No, it should be this

I can't find anything bad to say about this characters design...nothing to ridicule, nothing to complain about.

If we're going to pull from FF13, Lightning is much better.

Also, I forgot one of my other favorites from this gen.

Drebin is awesome.

 

[Chowfahn]

This thread's about character design, not art style. Is there any possible way you can argue that M. Bison has good character design?

 

[Forkball]

Are we talking about individual characters or artists or games or what? I'm so confused. Great pictures though.

Anyways, I always enjoyed the character design in the Suikoden series, especially III. Not over the top, but still detailed with a mix of realism and fantasy.

Also I think the guy from The Last Remnant is pretty cool looking. A bit generic, but it's stylized generic, kind of like Ryu from Street Fighter.

I also like the art from the guy who does the SMT games. This picture always freaked me out:

Such lifeless eyes.

 

[Night_Trekker]

The enemy designs from the earlier SH games are amazing.

 

[dfyb]

oh, and the only true 'bald spacemarine' is a mecc. i doubt there's a single hair on their body

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sh_VuxYqBY

 

[No Means Nomad]

Ugh, this thread is really scattershot.

Qualities of good character design:

Memorable. Are you really going to remember some random ninja or the boss from Gears of War 2 if you saw a quick picture of them before you play the game? No chance in hell.
Stands out from background so the player can always identify where they are. There is a fine line between standing out and having the character mix jarringly with the rest of the world (What's up Haze?).
Unique. Derivative characters conflict with the them being memorable. If it looks like every other god damn anime drawing out there it isn't unique.

 

[EricDiesel]

I'm throwing in some more Okami.

 

[GeneralIroh]

I like these a lot. Is this from the latest advance war game?

 

[Earthpainting]

I know these are opinions and all, but Nathan Drake? Seriously?

Personally I too am quite fond of Ubisoft's last few main characters. They might be total dicks, but they look cool while doing so regardless of their games' visual styles.

 

[KevinCow]

 

[Pimpbaa]

If we're going to pull from FF13, Lightning is much better.

No, because the red headed chick actually looks somewhat different from Nomura's copy and paste design. Lightning is his most lazy design yet for a character (and the main character of the fucking game!).

 

[DarkSloth]

For character design, nothing beats Guild Wars for me.

 

[makingmusic476]

My avatar.







Plus:

The Legend of Zelda series
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
Okami
Killzone 2 (and Killzone, I suppose)
Metal Gear Solid 1-4

I'll only post pics of those that have yet to be (to my knowledge) represented in this thread: