Dragon's Crown artist explains exaggerated art style
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[QUOTE=27X;40451281]And that would be a bad thing why exactly?[/QUOTE]Well for starters, she specifically goes against the idea of body types reflecting/exaggerating roles that everyone else is trying to fall into.
The guy who covers himself up in bulky armor and sports a sword/shield combo is incredibly top heavy, since his upper body always has to lug that shit around. Dwarf is a mountain of meat because his job is to waddle up to monsters and punch them in the junk until they die, and withstand punishment from said monsters angry about being punched in the junk until they die. Elf and Wizard are not physical fighters, so they get little to nothing in the way of body exaggeration; making them seem relatively small and frail in comparison to the brawlers. Sorceress, as maligned as her design is, is actually running in the other direction in this regard: Her witchcraft must be keeping her alive at this point, because neither Mother Nature nor a loving god would allow something shaped like that to live for more than ten minutes unassisted. Thus she is visually set up as potentially the "squishiest" character out of the whole lot.
Amazon, though? She apparently lugs around a battleaxe all the time... and has huge, huge legs. The only other gaming character with comparable gams I can think of is Chun-Li, and she punts Zangief back to Russia three times a week. It just doesn't add up in the slightest.
I was being pedantic.
lotta people in this thread who hate having fun and seeing past things that nobody normal cares about
[QUOTE=Pennywise;40452059]Well for starters, she specifically goes against the idea of body types reflecting/exaggerating roles that everyone else is trying to fall into.
The guy who covers himself up in bulky armor and sports a sword/shield combo is incredibly top heavy, since his upper body always has to lug that shit around. Dwarf is a mountain of meat because his job is to waddle up to monsters and punch them in the junk until they die, and withstand punishment from said monsters angry about being punched in the junk until they die. Elf and Wizard are not physical fighters, so they get little to nothing in the way of body exaggeration; making them seem relatively small and frail in comparison to the brawlers. Sorceress, as maligned as her design is, is actually running in the other direction in this regard: Her witchcraft must be keeping her alive at this point, because neither Mother Nature nor a loving god would allow something shaped like that to live for more than ten minutes unassisted. Thus she is visually set up as potentially the "squishiest" character out of the whole lot.
Amazon, though? She apparently lugs around a battleaxe all the time... and has huge, huge legs. The only other gaming character with comparable gams I can think of is Chun-Li, and she punts Zangief back to Russia three times a week. It just doesn't add up in the slightest.[/QUOTE]
The Amazon is basically the same as the Knight and Dwarf, she is a melee class so her muscles are exaggerated while still sort of retaining the 'sexy amazonian' trope that is common in fantasy. If you look past her legs she has a pretty beefy torso and arms as well.
[QUOTE=AaronM202;40451637]This guy would sure get a kick out of DOA X2.
But yeah, the art style looks fine except for the fucking amazon.
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It looks like [b][i]SHIT[/i][/b][/QUOTE]
If the head was bigger I'd say it was a fine design. As others said, she's amazon so she's strong and muscular while still having female traits.
[t]http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/screenshots/DragonsCrown/amazoni______a____________i_______psd_jpgcopy.jpg[/t]
I really glad that people haven't figured out that this is an exagerated perspective, makes everyone's comments seem a lot more thought out.
Seriously? What's wrong about the Sorceror? It's just a girl with big boobs. Do people really need to flip shit and portray themselves as being more sophisticated because they don't like gaint tits? That does nothing, no one's going to jump you're dick because of how "mature" you are. It just makes you look like an idiot that's trying to appeal to feminazi's. If you don't like the art because of the style then guess what, that's fine! Just don't go bring other stuff into it.
What?
A developer cant decide their own art direction anymore?
[QUOTE=Sprockethead;40457859]What?
A developer cant decide their own art direction anymore?[/QUOTE]
no because it might offend 50 men or women who just rile stuff up to feel good about themselves
[QUOTE=LeonS;40457892]no because it might offend 50 men or women who just rile stuff up to feel good about themselves[/QUOTE]
Thats a fantastic avatar, where is it from?
Also, You leave this shit to the free market, if people feel eeked about big boobs/asses/monsterthighs/whatever, They wont pay for it.
But should they pay for it, you can keep your moral crusade at home.
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