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[tylerjhutchison]

@nelson: While I disagree that Skyward Sword has some of the worst designs ever seen...  I do agree that they are lacking for a Zelda game.  And compared to Wind Waker... pretty horrible.  It is definitely suffering from some patchwork design.


Anyways, here is some art from someone who is not a video game artist, but a fantastic character designer: Nico Marlet





and a larger image that I am just going to link to:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-YOK6-hJ5kY/TRqhyZNUHjI/AAAAAAAALuI/04mwEeMoN0M/s1600/HTTYD%2Bbarbarians%2BNicholas%2BMarlet%2B2.jpg

[John Sandoval]

It's a simple, iconic character design that has scared thousands and thousands of small, edible children out of their minds.

[John Sandoval]

[iffi]

Spirited Away is great. I also liked Kamaji from the same film:

[Armageddon]

I've masturbated to Elastigirl so many times.

Glad to know I'm not the only one.

[Jad]

Yeah, Nomura ruined Final Fantasy with his Harajuku androgyny bullshit. Way to suck the creativity and art out of characters and reduce them into every other vapid teenager who's got a Hot Topic gift card.

I can't decide if that's worse or the "generic mid-30's white guy" that's been plaguing the Western AAA studios for the past couple years.

"Generic mid-thirties white guy" is boring and bland and unoriginal, but at least it's not embarrassing.

Uagh, I prefer embarassing over bland any day. I wish there was place for all sorts of designs. I'll remember that from now, that I'd rather be embarassing than to blandify to avoid being embarassing. That was actually kind of an eye-opener O:

[Castle]

[JMickle]

[xfry]

[Kevin]

Yeah, Nomura ruined Final Fantasy with his Harajuku androgyny bullshit. Way to suck the creativity and art out of characters and reduce them into every other vapid teenager who's got a Hot Topic gift card.

I can't decide if that's worse or the "generic mid-30's white guy" that's been plaguing the Western AAA studios for the past couple years.

"Generic mid-thirties white guy" is boring and bland and unoriginal, but at least it's not embarrassing.

Uagh, I prefer embarassing over bland any day. I wish there was place for all sorts of designs. I'll remember that from now, that I'd rather be embarassing than to blandify to avoid being embarassing. That was actually kind of an eye-opener O:

Tidus' design is definitely a lot more visually stimulating than, say, Shepard's, but there's a difference between stimulating and good. I totally support and prefer interesting, even crazily outlandish designs if done well. I just find that, while Shepard is definitely more bland than Tidus, from a design perspective the N7 armor is a lot more solid than whatever Tidus is wearing.

[C.A. Sinner]

lets compare from this

to this

uhm i dont like skyward sword but its kind of unfair to compare these two like that. one of them is concept art the other is an actual in-game model. bokoblins don't really look like that in wind waker.

[Castle]

that's release art not concept art

and also design is design

[Xion]

what castle said. Doesn't change the fact that skyward sword's bokoblin design is complete balls compared to wind waker's.

[Bones]

Personally I like over the top stylized characters.
It's that one particular unique trait that makes a character what it is, not belt straps and buckles or less clothing.

But maybe that's because my roots are deep in cartoons and comics.

[Kevin]

Man, I love EWJ's designs.