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Character models that bug you
- Thread starter Green Mamba
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Ok this got me. Laughed out loud.
Octavianus
Banned
Yeah I'm sure they made her face look like shit on purpose.
Coriolanus
Banned
Morrowind imperial legion guards
then, as the years passed, it became clear that the problem resided with bethesda's modellers. Very good for buildings, but.... not quite as good for people.
always thought maybe it was because they were horrendously low poly or something, then saw the wireframe one day and went "wtf"
then, as the years passed, it became clear that the problem resided with bethesda's modellers. Very good for buildings, but.... not quite as good for people.
Septimus Prime
Member
NetherRealm's models always look terrible to me. Unlike most others, they're even worse in motion.
Playing Street Fighter V's story mode made me realize how ugly and gross the models are when animated through mocap - I assume it's mo-cap, right? Ingame they look fine from afar and because the animations have been handcrafted, but in cutscenes they're hideous.
Laura's expressions are the stuff of nightmare.
Male models look like slabs of meat with disgusting feet. It's especially apparent when the models have exposed skin, like Ryu and Rashid's feet.
Speaking of Rashid, his beard clips through his chest like crazy every time he tilts his head forward.
The models' teeth also tend to give all the characters this nightmarish, maniacal look. It works on M. Bison because that's his whole character, but Rashid - sorry, I just hate his model and design - looks like the Joker.
Sean's hair in the the story cutscenes acts like rubber springs. It's ridiculous.
And, as others have said, Ken and Vega just look plain ugly.
At least Cammy is gorgeous.
You and me both, buddy. Zelda designs have been atrocious for ages.
Laura's expressions are the stuff of nightmare.
Male models look like slabs of meat with disgusting feet. It's especially apparent when the models have exposed skin, like Ryu and Rashid's feet.
Speaking of Rashid, his beard clips through his chest like crazy every time he tilts his head forward.
The models' teeth also tend to give all the characters this nightmarish, maniacal look. It works on M. Bison because that's his whole character, but Rashid - sorry, I just hate his model and design - looks like the Joker.
Sean's hair in the the story cutscenes acts like rubber springs. It's ridiculous.
And, as others have said, Ken and Vega just look plain ugly.
At least Cammy is gorgeous.
Zelda character designs have been almost intolerable to me since OoT. Granted on the N64 some of their hideous human models could be attributed to the limitations of the system, but then they went and apparently decided that the "style" of 3D Zeldas was to populate them with horribly proportioned, occasionally repulsive, alcoholic subhumans.
Twilight Princess tried to right the ship somewhat, but you still had someone sign off on these design, among others.
Then Skyward Sword backslid from what modicum of normalcy we got with TP.
I fucking hate Zelda NPCs from the past 15 years.
You and me both, buddy. Zelda designs have been atrocious for ages.
Barry Burton
Member
Resident Evil Revelations:
Just across-the-board terrible.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Is this seriously a real character in a game? Looks like an exaggerated parody. Who the fuck would design something this terrible?
BulletSmoke
Member
Can't unsee bananas
God damn that dude has no neck and looks like he ate raw lemons.
poodaddy
Member
What is this terrifying clip from?
Since many in here are lambasting Street Fighter V's models now, and considering how much praise they got before the game's launch, and then looking at a game like King of Fighters XIV, which was lambasted for it's poor graphics from the moment it was first shown, I'd like to point out how beautifully modelled KoFXIV models actually are compared to SFV's. No single polygon edge in sight:
I'm not a fan of the art style they chose for this game and of many of the character designs, but to everyone who called these PS2 graphics I call BS.
I'm not a fan of the art style they chose for this game and of many of the character designs, but to everyone who called these PS2 graphics I call BS.
Finally we've accomplished true gender equality in games.Faptain Calcons package expansion as well as his insane ripped body actually pushing through his clothes. The hell!?
it looks comical, not sexy. WE NEED MORE SEXY!
Haunted
Member
That literally looks like he had some facial surgery done in-game.This mod isn't perfect, but it mitigates most of the damage. Looking a little plastic is an improvement over what's in the actual game.
Genius, if that's what they were going for.
EVA UNIT 01
Member
....my childhood is rocked. ROCKED I SAY!
i saw the dog in a suit too
Also i cannot for the life of me see Agahnims sprite correctly
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
His index finger looks like a winky.
This isn't the worst shot of it, but Doc Brown's model in Back to the Future: The Game bugged me so much. The stylization in that game was hit or miss to begin with, but they went in the wrong direction for him for me.
lensoftruth
Member
Don't think they're great but they're good fun at least!
Zelda NPC designs were never good to begin with. Not in the early 2D games and not in the 3D ones.
thats totally william dafoe
SystemUser
Member
cant believe no one posted the definition of uncany valey:
Looks fine to me. She is supposed to be possessed by a demon or something I assume.
Fuck that's horrible. Makes me feel very uneasy. Is it just a home video or something??cant believe no one posted the definition of uncany valey:
Baron Von Beans
Member
Since DetectiveGaf let me down, I found the game from my post...Vandal Hearts. Longtime PSOne Classic. Early games and art looked solid, but later on...nope. Just nope. I never played the games, but the character models look atrocious.
Early game:
Later game:
Early game:
Later game:
Glad to a we another person is familiar with the elegance of moonwalking out of awkward situations. Stand by your guns...just not Overwatches. You aren't alone, I'm not that keen on the game either. I'm sure there are plenty more of us out there somewhere....DOZENS!!!
SimpleCRIPPLE
Member
Came to post Zelda. Happy someone already did.
Every character has a punchable face. Its like a game world full of nothing but Ted Cruz offspring.
I'd say a lot of the complaints in this thread could fall into the character models - excluding those Xenosaga anime characters with mumps - actually being more realistic than we think.
Let's face it, we humans come in variety of configurations and many aren't pretty. In general I feel character modelers don't often take into account that people have things like under-/overbite, large foreheads, weird noses or other features that are a bit off just as we can have longer or shorter arms, legs or backs.
Often character models end up with doll-like appearances because they represent an "ideal" human which just doesn't exist.
Let's face it, we humans come in variety of configurations and many aren't pretty. In general I feel character modelers don't often take into account that people have things like under-/overbite, large foreheads, weird noses or other features that are a bit off just as we can have longer or shorter arms, legs or backs.
Often character models end up with doll-like appearances because they represent an "ideal" human which just doesn't exist.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
That red haired dude looks like an evil version of Conan O'Brien.
You can really tell that that model wasn't meant for anything other than one scene in Halo Reach, those poor animators...Could be worse:
SoulUnison
Banned
The female character model in Digimon Cyber Sleuth. It looks like she is constantly arcing her back to jut out her breasts. Stand properly ffs
Every female character in that game, or even by the same character designer (Suzuhito Yasuda, I think) is TERRIBLE.
He is the most insulting, pandering character artist that's ever existed.
Every girl in Digimon Cyber Sleuth looks like they've been vacuum packed into their clothing. Why can I see belly buttons through everyone's shirts? Why is everything every girl wears somehow tighter than skin-tight?
And his Devil Survivor character designs... Every girl looks like they have some kind of horrible, terminal double-tumor on their chest, or like they're trying to smuggle Madonna's cone bra. His entire design philosophy seems to be "Take a teenage girl, give them a middle aged woman's body and a runway model's breasts, then cover them in whatever the tightest scraps are leftover on the floor of the wardrobe department."
I've seen doodles on middle school student's notepads that have more class and restraint than this man's garbage.
Just look at this shit.
That last one is a high school girl! What sort of parents let her out of the house like that? Why does anyone take her seriously? I sure fucking couldn't and haven't finished the game because of it.
This guy's art is so bad I actively refuse to buy games he's participated in. I skipped Devil Survivor 2 after mostly enjoying the first one because of his designs.
If I'd know beforehand he was the main artist of Digimon Cyber Sleuth I never would have purchased it.
Ryouji Gunblade
Member
On the topic of 3D Zelda models, I try to focus on the best ones after the N64 days. Twilight Princess has good models, but bad ones too. Same for Skyward Sword, but I prefer SS's overall.
Pretty much half the character models in Street Fighter V...most of them are great aside from the ones that have serious clipping issues.
Freaking Dhalsims shorts are clipping through his legs in his nuetral stance...its really sloppy. Still love the game though.
Other than that Rayman always bugged me from a design standpoint.
Freaking Dhalsims shorts are clipping through his legs in his nuetral stance...its really sloppy. Still love the game though.
Other than that Rayman always bugged me from a design standpoint.
Dick Justice
Banned
Ironically, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
His face gets more detailed, but he still looks like Sully.
-shadow-
Member
Tsubasa in Tokyo Mirage Sessions looks fine a lot of the time. But depending on her stance or when the camera focuses on her side/is spinning around her I absolutely can't stop and look at her breasts. I can't put my finger on why, but they look really off, especially whenever she awakens a new power.
I can't find a good photo, but this should kind of do.
I'll never understand why they moved away from the amazing model they had for the first Prime game. Because that one is by far the best. Tanabe or Sakamoto wanting a more cartoonish style I presume?
I can't find a good photo, but this should kind of do.
And she still looks really off in Corruption. Though it's even worse there because she removes her helmet on multiple occasions. Even worse is they they did have an amazing rendition of her in Hunters.Samus' Metroid Prime 2 model will haunt me forever.
I'll never understand why they moved away from the amazing model they had for the first Prime game. Because that one is by far the best. Tanabe or Sakamoto wanting a more cartoonish style I presume?
Ragnorok64
Member
Yvette from NBA 2K16's story mode didn't seem to make the digital transition from actress to character model all that well.
actress Anya Engel-Adams
actress Anya Engel-Adams
Ragnorok64
Member
Since DetectiveGaf let me down, I found the game from my post...Vandal Hearts. Longtime PSOne Classic. Early games and art looked solid, but later on...nope. Just nope. I never played the games, but the character models look atrocious.
Early game:
Later game:
Glad to a we another person is familiar with the elegance of moonwalking out of awkward situations. Stand by your guns...just not Overwatches. You aren't alone, I'm not that keen on the game either. I'm sure there are plenty more of us out there somewhere....DOZENS!!!
Ok real talk people. What do the words "character model" refer to? I'm seeing people post sprites and now straight up 2D art pieces. A lot of the complaints in here also have nothing to do with the quality of 3d modeling present and everything to do with the character design.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
I really like the one from Halo Wars 2 than Halo Wars.
bobawesome
Member
Too bad for you. They've already shown everyone appearing in the game. This is in no way a spoiler. Guess what? Junpei is in it, too.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Damn dude, what crawled up your ass? Some people did avoid media for the game because of spoilers casually being dropped.
So yes, thanks for spoiling shit for no reason.
Jay Shadow
Member
"They used the highest magics on us," she continued in a muted voice, "spells, elixirs, amulets, and artifacts. Nothing was left wanting for the wounded heroes of the Hill. We were cured, patched up, our former appearances returned to us, our hair and sight restored. You can hardly see the marks. But I will never wear a plunging neckline again, Geralt. Never." - Triss Merigold, Blood of Elves
Fast forward to Witcher 1
And Witcher 3 DLC
Fast forward to Witcher 1
And Witcher 3 DLC
GamingOblivion
Banned
Ironically, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
His face gets more detailed, but he still looks like Sully.
and so does he in uc4
holy shit you're an asshole
Astral Dog
Member
Tsubasa in Tokyo Mirage Sessions looks fine a lot of the time. But depending on her stance or when the camera focuses on her side/is spinning around her I absolutely can't stop and look at her breasts. I can't put my finger on why, but they look really off, especially whenever she awakens a new power.
I can't find a good photo, but this should kind of do.
And she still looks really off in Corruption. Though it's even worse there because she removes her helmet on multiple occasions. Even worse is they they did have an amazing rendition of her in Hunters.
I'll never understand why they moved away from the amazing model they had for the first Prime game. Because that one is by far the best. Tanabe or Sakamoto wanting a more cartoonish style I presume?
yeah that MP2 model is hideous, and MP3 not much better, ironically the best looking 3D Samus models come from Other M and Hunters.
I think, Nintendo probably did wanted to have a cohesive version of Samus across all games (Zero Suit, blonde) and that can be done well (like the MPH ending) but it backfired a bit, the Smash Brother Brawl Samus is also ugly.
Triforce141
Member
Eggman's model in Adventure 1 was bad, even in the Dreamcast version.
And Knuckles in Sonic Boom Shattered Crystal, his cheeks look too puffed out:
This guy's forehead is big enough to put a second face on it.
Elle FanningFish-face Kristen Bell in Assassin's Creed 2:
For whatever reason it was a noticeable downgrade from her model in AC1:
Desmond was the same:
AC1:
AC2:
Hey guys, how'dya like that bloom?
Huge Succeeded
Banned
Diiiiiick move.
