At 7/17/22 06:10 PM, vonschloss wrote:

At 7/17/22 05:59 PM, Thetageist wrote:

At 7/17/22 03:11 PM, vonschloss wrote:

At 7/13/22 10:08 AM, Moth-Bee-Chameleon wrote:https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fridaynightfunking/images/0/03/RetroNormalStaticIdle.png/revision/latest?cb=20210915171309

Retrospector - FNF: Without context, he's just another furry OC with annoyingly bright neon colors, however what makes me really dislike his design is how misleading it is. You see, he's a demon who is the embodiment of the sin of Wrath and rules over the layer of Hell of that sin. His design reflects non of that, he looks like some average dragon dude who lives in a modern setting, he doesn't even have a shade of red, the color of Wrath. Gluttony of all people looks more like his sin then he does. Lust may have a boring design, but at least she looked like her sin, even if it was the laziest way to design it (Which is just a fanservice moth anthro).

https://en.touhouwiki.net/images/thumb/e/e5/Th18Misumaru.png/149px-Th18Misumaru.png

Misumaru - Touhou Project: As someone who likes the majority of the designs in this series (Including Hecatia and Chimata), I don't like how she looks. I think it's mostly because her colors don't fit well with each other, doesn't help that her palette is just too overloaded.

The concept that he wrote how his self-insert fursona is a badass demon king who bangs the embodiment of lust is pretty baffling to me. It sounds and looks like something out of a tween's deviantart.

Ey, why not have fun with your self-inserts? It’s not always a sign of poor writing or ego problems. (Although to be fair, that particular instance is probably somewhat gratuitous - I could psychoanalyze it but I won’t.)

Anyways, I think my least favourite designs are the Diamonds from Steven Universe. They had so much potential.
They commit mass genocide on a galaxy-wide scale, you could've made them even a little menacing.

Yellow just looks like a retro science fiction villain, minus the chrome. I reckon that’s probably intentional for a lot of the gems. Some of the other character designs do a way better job of modernizing it, though.

Doesn't seem like that to me, but alright.

At 7/17/22 08:05 PM, Axemanng wrote:Ok, hear me out...

I actually love the Mr. Knight design. I like the juxtaposition of the suit and the mask. I also like the subtle details on the show’s version of the suit. But why did they add that weird seam for the show? It just looks like extra effort to make the design look less like something someone would actually wear, only to have an actual person wear it.

At 7/17/22 05:59 PM, Thetageist wrote:Ey, why not have fun with your self-inserts? It’s not always a sign of poor writing or ego problems. (Although to be fair, that particular instance is probably somewhat gratuitous - I could psychoanalyze it but I won’t.)

At 7/13/22 04:10 PM, Moth-Bee-Chameleon wrote:

At 7/13/22 04:02 PM, TheShokBlok wrote:I don't like overcomplicated designs that are so for no real reason, like genshin impact characters.

https://static.zerochan.net/Luso.Clemens.full.1712259.jpg

Meet the CEO of clustered character designs.

At 7/18/22 06:21 PM, sharpnova wrote:everything in F.I.S.T. which I mostly loved since it was a polished well designed good everything metroidvania.

except for the whole furry theme. ditch that and the game would have reached a far wider audience. i can't believe they did that.

i lump people who are into furry stuff in the same category as people with foot fetishes

At 7/19/22 05:00 PM, Opabinia wrote:Most characters from Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss. The designs are ill suited to animation.

I get that Hell is red. I get that demons are red. What I do not get is how the characters are all almost the same shades of red, pink, and yellow (mostly on blond characters with paper white skin, nonetheless). There's no contrast. And sweet Jesus, the STRIPES! The bow tie and zig zag spiky teeth combo being overused bothers me too.

The designs of the characters don't say much about their personality or occupation, especially before the Hazbin pilot's characters got redesigned. Charlie's a pushover wearing a business suit, V is protective but has nothing other than her spear to prove it, Angel can't pick one occupation but he dresses in a way I can't even describe... and Alastor, you can't even tell he's supposed to be a deer. The only thing about his design that says "radio" is his mic.

The news anchor's head looks like an AirPod.

The hellhound lady from Helluva doesn't look very good when front facing and looks like a recolor of the creator's other anthro wolf character JayJay. The main imps having similar colors is understandable, but it still feels off. I feel bad for the people who have to draw 12 of those stripey horns per second.

At 7/19/22 11:11 AM, Thetageist wrote:

At 7/19/22 04:34 AM, Realaapiarts wrote:This boss from Rayman Origins. It's just ugly and gross. Yes there's some other ugly characters in Rayman Origins/Legends none of them are to the level of the this one and I like most of the other designs

It's interesting. Have you ever seen any gross-out boss monsters, designed to elicit disgust from players, that you thought were well-designed? What makes those good and this not?

At 7/19/22 05:22 PM, Thetageist wrote:

At 7/19/22 05:00 PM, Opabinia wrote:Most characters from Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss. The designs are ill suited to animation.

I get that Hell is red. I get that demons are red. What I do not get is how the characters are all almost the same shades of red, pink, and yellow (mostly on blond characters with paper white skin, nonetheless). There's no contrast. And sweet Jesus, the STRIPES! The bow tie and zig zag spiky teeth combo being overused bothers me too.

The designs of the characters don't say much about their personality or occupation, especially before the Hazbin pilot's characters got redesigned. Charlie's a pushover wearing a business suit, V is protective but has nothing other than her spear to prove it, Angel can't pick one occupation but he dresses in a way I can't even describe... and Alastor, you can't even tell he's supposed to be a deer. The only thing about his design that says "radio" is his mic.

The news anchor's head looks like an AirPod.

The hellhound lady from Helluva doesn't look very good when front facing and looks like a recolor of the creator's other anthro wolf character JayJay. The main imps having similar colors is understandable, but it still feels off. I feel bad for the people who have to draw 12 of those stripey horns per second.

The one thing I thought was clever about Charlie’s design is that her design is basically a performer costume (her attire) and makeup (represented by markings on her face)… and from the one episode I’ve seen, she’s the one who’s initiating all the musical numbers. She’s in essence just a theater kid, which based on the feel of the show, the creator probably is too, or at least deeply in the musical theater fandom in some way.

Is JayJay still being used? I can understand how an artist might reuse an old design for a new character, but if it’s that close and they’re both actively being drawn, it does seem to become a matter of “style” crippling the amount of visual distinction in designs. (Which that actually sounds like the main problem with the show that you’re describing.)

At 7/26/22 04:21 PM, OviManic wrote:

At 7/26/22 04:13 PM, Moth-Bee-Chameleon wrote:This.... this is just not a Pokemon, this is someone's fursona pretending to be a Pokemon.

This is one thing… upon many things that frustrates me about Pokémon in general! Starting all the way from Gen 1, these wild creatures, that can be caught and owned as pets, get clothes upon evolution! Where to they get those clothes, I have NO idea. You can argue that Cinderance has fur that coincidentally look like pants, but then we have its prior evolution, Raboot, that is wearing a friggin’ turtleneck jumpsuit WITH POCKETS!!

At 7/26/22 04:30 PM, Moth-Bee-Chameleon wrote:Yeah, gotta agree with you there, Sawk and Throuh are by far the worst offenders.

https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/thumb/e/e4/818Inteleon.png/1200px-818Inteleon.png On another note, I dislike Inteleon as much as Cinderace, Jesus those are some weird ass proportions, and this is coming from someone who likes weird proportions in character design.