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[haunts]

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

Lightning Bolt belt buckle, bitch!!!

 

[TheExodu5]

oh before i forget:

*prays not to get hotlink-bombed*

Is this the same guy who did the Breath of Fire art? It looks extremely similar.

 

[Blizzard]

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

Yes, it's from Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. Quite a good game, and it has some humor and good character styles to go along with the story/strategy/whatnot. You can probably even find it for a decent price.

 

[LethaL ImpuLse]

For character design, nothing beats Guild Wars for me.

oh wow, it's been so long since I've played Guild Wars I forgot how awesome the art and design was. Not only the characters but just about all of the art looked absolutely amazing.

 

[master15]

Still the best designed character I`ve seen. Apologies about size of pictures in advance.

 

[gantz85]

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

Wow.

 

[zewone]

I'm so glad No More Heroes was the first response.

 

[Mr_Brightside]

 

[Rorsha]

Best snake design

Simple but effective

<3

 

[Knox]

Surprised I haven't seen these.

 

[Mdk7]

Anything by Kazuma Kaneko, and

 

[Cynar]

Too many generic space marines, ugh @ gears and halo crap. Anyway, lots of good other stuff at least in this thread.

 

[BrokenSymmetry]

Another vote for Guild Wars:

 

[Kill Your Masters]

 

[Mdk7]

Too many generic space marines, ugh @ gears and halo crap. Anyway, lots of good other stuff at least in this thread.

i kinda agree...

To add moar good stuff

 

[def sim]

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

The first master chief design was shown in 1999 and this show was aired in the same year. I'd say it's just a coincidence, what with both copying a bike helmet and all.

Anyway, I think Master Chief looks too simple to be considered great character design. Yeah, he's iconic and all that, but still, very basic design.

The character he is based on is pretty sweet though.

 

[way more]

Dudes in suits fighting zombies are awesome. You can imagine them leaving work at 5:10 on a Friday afternoon and then having to put up more bullshit.

I always thought those pointless shoulder pads were cool.

The opening movies added to his bad-assness. As well as his sarcastic comments. Also, he was always fighting crazed religious cults.

Fallout 2 Power Armor.

 

[Truant]

Some of you guys have incredibly bast taste.

 

[Shig]

And pretty much anything else Shinkiro did...

Shinkiro didn't design any of these characters.

Character design =/= Character illustration

 

[Kill Your Masters]

Too many generic space marines, ugh @ gears and halo crap. Anyway, lots of good other stuff at least in this thread.

Too many emo gits, ugh @all the Japanese crap.

Spoiler

See what I did there?

 

[Rorschach]

The first master chief design was shown in 1999 and this show was aired in the same year. I'd say it's just a coincidence, what with both copying a bike helmet and all.

Bike helmets have been hot since '93!

It's MC showing off his mid-drift!

 

[def sim]

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

I'll give you GoW, but Dead Space? Don't dis the ribs!

 

[McBradders]

90 posts before someone posts anything from Earthworm Jim?


Fuck you, GAF. Fuck you.


Also huge rolleyes at all the incredibly incredibly generic JRPG shit in here. Good character design doesn't mean "Shit you like."

 

[Rorsha]

Thanatos from P3

 

[Deacan]

I love the design of the little big planet Sackboy.

 

[Defuser]

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

Yes, And it's done by SNK Playmore's Hiroaki.

 

[freethought]

No love?

 

[Won]

This thread is a scary place.......it also ended at post #10!

 

[ghst]

go back to school master chief.

 

[def sim]

Really, though, the Dead Space suit is pimp. Not a generic space marine at all.

 

[Baron Doggystyle von Woof]

 

[Deleted member 17706]

of all time-
probably Tetsuya Nomura
love his style

Goddamn don't confuse Amano with that generic hack Nomura.

Get those damn gelled up hairstyles, belts, zippers, black leather and emotionless expressions out of my Final Fantasy!

 

[Yoboman]

This character just exuded something special from the moment you saw him

Great character design

 

[Spotless Mind]

Team Fortress 2 is the epitome of amazing character design.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I really admire the artists at Lionhead. Their work on Fable and Fable II is among my favorite for making a distinctive, cozy game world.

Fable II:

How come it seems like none of this type of art made it into the actual game? Seriously the art on the front of the box is a bit misleading in my opinion. No one in the game resembles the concept art in the slightest and your actual character grows up to look like some hairless ape or one of those saturday morning cartoon superheroes with their massive jaws and chins.

 

[Fersis]

The King Of Fighters and Fatal Fury series always had an amazing character design :
Geese Howard,Terry Bogard,R. Yamazaki, Shermie, Yashiro Nanakase, Rugal,Goenitz (Goering + Doenitz @_@ ), Iori Yagami tonz of them.

And of course Shinkawa san designed some of the best characters ever

 

[aerofx]

 

[viewtifulsub]

 

[adamsapple]

 

[iddqd]

at first i was like "WUH!" and then i read the "MALE" part.

i also think that ubisoft has some good designers at the moment, as does bioware and the zelda people.

 

[Martial Loh]

In the Halo artbook they have a page or two covering the design of Master Chief. Initially he looked quite slender, but they decided against that look and made him look more like a tank.
I think it works rather well.

Whilst some companies are guilty of overusing bald space marines, there're a lot of generic anime characters floating around this thread too!

 

[Haruspex]

The cats from Killer7 and No More Heroes...

Also most of the characters from Baten Kaitos, or maybe that's just because they stand out in the homogenous JRPG crowd as being a little different. Hope there's a few Guilty Gear characters been mentioned in this thread too.

 

[antiloop]

oh before i forget:

*Chrono Chross pics*



*prays not to get hotlink-bombed*

I remember being really impressed the first time I played it. Loved everything about the design of world/characters. Especially Kid.

 

[Insane Metal]

I really hated every single character design in Soul Calibur 4. But that's just me!

Greatest horse design ever. Take that, Oblivion!
Wander was also pretty fucking awesome.

Yeah, SC4 char. design fucking sucks. And about agro and wander, you're right too, sir.


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[regret]

http://www.conceptart.org

 

[Insane Metal]

I love the design of the little big planet Sackboy.

Oh hell, YES!

 

[Jocchan]

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...

 

[Dabookerman]

Advance Wars Day of Ruin or whatever it's called has awful design.

Why does every female kid character these days need to be a goth loli? Especially in a post apocalyptic setting. It's stupid.

I miss the old art for Advance Wars, they were cute.

In terms of actual design, I am going to have to wack out my cock for Shinkawa.
Absolute, fucking, amazing designs.

Again, Ayami Kojima made some amazingly haunting gothic looking characters, and out of all the artists making gothic looking characters she does it the best using her traditional approach, by painting and adding incredible detail. They may not be practical considering you never see that detail in game, but it's one of the very few times people in general look forward to seeing her art before the actual game itself.

Other games have amazing designs:
Metroid Prime
Shadow of the Colossus
Anything Amano touches.

I'm shocked that no one has mentioned Pokemon, the designs from the RBY and GSC era were sublime.

You don't get cooler than Lugia

 

[zaidr]

How come it seems like none of this type of art made it into the actual game? Seriously the art on the front of the box is a bit misleading in my opinion. No one in the game resembles the concept art in the slightest and your actual character grows up to look like some hairless ape or one of those saturday morning cartoon superheroes with their massive jaws and chins.

Well, if you've been paying attention in this thread, apparently its not about in game character art, but concept art. Nobody seems to care that old school RPG's didn't look anything like their concept art...

 

[Haly]

Okay so we've seen the obvious ones like, a million times. Here are some others:

Etrian Odyssey's Adventurers:

Seto from FRAGILE:

Ein from Riviera:

Ema Skye from Phoenix Wright:

Zero from the Zero series:

And why the hell are we at 5 pages without: