• Dragon's Crown artist explains exaggerated art style
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[QUOTE=kanesenpai~;40438658]Indeed. Vanillaware has made some fantastic games, all of them with fantastic artwork. Hell, Dragon's Crown's designs and trailers have been around for quite some time. Of course it's around nearing release when Kotaku tries to paint Vanillaware as a bunch of 15 year olds with no artistic skill or credibility. Basically just slandering them as much as they can. Which makes me fucking sick. They put a lot of work into the art. Here's a cool article from someone I follow on twitter about the art in Dragon's Crown: [URL]http://art-eater.com/2013/03/from-mickey-mouse-to-jesus-the-latest-dragons-crown-trailer-is-full-of-epic-homages/[/URL][/QUOTE] Vanillaware makes games with pretty graphics, but their gameplay tend to be very mediocre/repetitive.
[QUOTE=Dantai;40439195]Doesn't skull girls pull the same shit, animated wobbly tits etc actually most fighting games that have females tend to include it, even pixel art ones[/QUOTE] Skullgirls was released back when most of the gaming press was still sperging out over Minecraft's sales figures and arguing with eachother over whether or not the latest Call of Duty was good.
i still love the dwarf a guy from 4chan drew of a rule 63 dragons crown [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/7nuEAJh.jpg[/img_thumb]
[QUOTE=Wii60;40440078]i still love the dwarf a guy from 4chan drew of a rule 63 dragons crown [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/7nuEAJh.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] graphiteknight.tumblr.com aka matsu you're very welcome
what made the wicked witch so wicked??? it was the back ache from her huge breasts that made her so wicked...
i wish people could have fun with video games instead of just nitpicking them to dust, especially games that are over exagarrated (i probs still wont buy this though)
I don't get how people can defend this, it looks absolutely horrible and fucked up. The art style is really off. Different people, different tastes.
[QUOTE=Dantai;40439195]Doesn't skull girls pull the same shit, animated wobbly tits etc actually most fighting games that have females tend to include it, even pixel art ones[/QUOTE] and iirc skullgirls art was 100% conceptualized and drawn by a girl [editline]27th April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=junker|154;40441578]I don't get how people can defend this, it looks absolutely horrible and fucked up. The art style is really off. Different people, different tastes.[/QUOTE] imo as far as lines and colors and basic shit like that go this game is golden, it's the way that everything comes together that makes it seem a little off to me but nothing worth getting worked up over
Reminds me of all the weird drawn BBW porn I used to look at. This looks pretty cool actually, think I'm going to have to get it.
I thought that male dwarf were intended to resemble the west's obsession with muscular male protagonists, not an example of "reverse-sexism".
i don't get why people are getting a their panties in a bunch over the art. not all of it is oversexualized shit [img]http://i.imgur.com/AltE4S1.gif[/img] [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/dddragon.gif[/img] [editline]27th April 2013[/editline] oh and not really game related, but the game has spawned a fuckton of cool ass fanart. [img]http://i.imgur.com/teIdhWQ.jpg[/img]
Art style looks stupid? More like the artist cannot fucking comprehend anatomy "BUT ITS MUH STYLE!"
[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;40444289]I thought that male dwarf were intended to resemble the west's obsession with muscular male protagonists, not an example of "reverse-sexism".[/QUOTE] They're caricatures of fantasy tropes. So the male characters are burly, bearded, and muscular, something men want to be. And the female characters are tits, ass, and chainmail bikini, something men want to fuck. It's an uneven depiction. It's not 'horrible lolicon sexism misogyny check your privilege', and it doesn't need to be defended as 'perfectly balanced and equally exploitative this doesn't offend me so it shouldn't offend anybody'. Just go 'huh, yeah that's a bit unfair, let's try not to do that'. Which is essentially what Kamitani wound up saying.
[QUOTE=Zeneros;40445636]Art style looks stupid? More like the artist cannot fucking comprehend anatomy "BUT ITS MUH STYLE!"[/QUOTE] it's part of the style. it's perfectly fine to have weird proportions as long as it's consistent. it's like this. [img]http://i.imgur.com/FRDfgHQ.jpg[/img] .... not like this [img]http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/7/70204/2160698-liefeld_boobs.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40446214][img]http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/7/70204/2160698-liefeld_boobs.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] you know I was just trying to remember the guy's name, saw the signature. The difference with the Dragon's Crown artist is he's actually pushing structure in interesting and exaggerated ways, whereas Rob Liefeld acts with a lack of anatomical knowledge in the first place- in order to stylize, you must know more about the body than "HUGE MUSCLES! LONG LEGS!". also before you go on about the pictures not looking like they're drawn by the same guy due to the quality, most american comics are produced by teams, there are people who do nothing but color other people's drawings in order to keep all of the comic lines looking relatively the same [img]http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/2/27935/877937-bloodpouch.jpg[/img] [img]http://i48.tinypic.com/t6cv0x.jpg[/img] [img]http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1070350/40a.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40445604] [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/dddragon.gif[/img] [/QUOTE] I just love this.
[QUOTE=Pinut;40446601]I just love this.[/QUOTE] i love the way how everything moves in DC
Just me or are we becoming awfully nanny, latching onto everything with slightest hint of not being "politically correct"? Hating for the sake of hating.
A really good response to Schrier's bullshit. [IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI54HWOCcAAg5dn.png:large[/IMG]
I just don't like it because I'm tired of female designs that are only designed for masturbation and the occasionally iffy anatomy on them that shows up regardless of stylisation. The Ranger looks nice, for example of a good female design. I otherwise like the artstyle it's going for.
[QUOTE=kanesenpai~;40449660]A really good response to Schrier's bullshit. [IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI54HWOCcAAg5dn.png:large[/IMG][/QUOTE] Good to see someone sensible going against his bullshit.
[QUOTE=kanesenpai~;40449660]A really good response to Schrier's bullshit. [IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI54HWOCcAAg5dn.png:large[/IMG][/QUOTE] Shit, someone call a burn unit.
i don't get why you guys are so against dragon's crowns art you don't have to like what he depicts but it doesn't make it bad art infact it's good art
[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;40450627]i don't get why you guys are so against dragon's crowns art you don't have to like what he depicts but it doesn't make it bad art infact it's good art[/QUOTE] It's subjective more than anything. Some people think it looks bad, others think it looks awful. I'm in the middle, I like the overall art style, but I don't like the character design for the females.
I can deal with almost all of it. Except for Thunderthighs McGee the Amazonian Headcrusher. Seriously she could fight only by trapping monsters between her legs and splitting them in half. Who needs a giant axe when your kicks can probably launch someone into low orbit?
I don't mind it I just think people vehemently defending it is stupid
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;40450876]I can deal with almost all of it. Except for Thunderthighs McGee the Amazonian Headcrusher. Seriously she could fight only by trapping monsters between her legs and splitting them in half. Who needs a giant axe when your kicks can probably launch someone into low orbit?[/QUOTE] And that would be a bad thing why exactly? [editline]28th April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=NomadicNinja;40450645]It's subjective more than anything. Some people think it looks bad, others think it looks awful. I'm in the middle, I like the overall art style, but I don't like the character design for the females.[/QUOTE] The only facet that lean towards the objective outside of said photographer's rebuttal is that Kotaku is fucking awful, and should not be read by human beings of any kind.
This guy would sure get a kick out of DOA X2. But yeah, the art style looks fine except for the fucking amazon. [t]http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/DragonsCrown/amazoni______a____________i_______psd_jpgcopy.jpg[/t] It looks like [b][i]SHIT[/i][/b]
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;40434720]Dear Jason Schreier, This is a loli. [img]http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130205092715/fireemblem/images/8/8c/Nono_Official_Art.jpg[/img] The sorceress from Dragon's Crown most certainly isn't. It's like baking a carrot cake and putting some chocolate frosting on it and saying it's a chocolate cake.[/QUOTE] Funfact, in japanese lolicon literally means pedophile.
god forbid an artist tries anything different i could maybe understand the argument if everything was completely disproportionate with the rest of the body and the rest of the characters but a complaint about this being... loli? and sexist? is barking up the wrong tree.
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