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[FortNinety]

First off, thanks SonicMegaDrive!

Slightly OT, but I've been thinking about how to make Iron Man cinematically plausible ever since they announced the movie, and done some quick sketches over the months, and it seems almost impossible to make it look realistic yet still remeniscent of the comic book Iron Man design.

The problem seems to me, stems from the fact that the comic book design cheats way too much with all the bending metal, musclely metal, and rocket boosters and beam emiters buried in 4th dimension crap.

Very good point, though I always figured that they'll probably replace the arms and legs with a series of coils, sorta how they did recently, so instead of one huge piece of metal bending, its just a series of smaller ones moving about.

 

[Scrow]

Christ, that shit is embarrasing. You have to take your Metroid love goggles off to realise that probably, but.....

you have to take your "i'm gonna be a dickhead" googles off and realise you should shut the fuck up.

 

[Shogmaster]

Very good point, though I always figured that they'll probably replace the arms and legs with a series of coils, sorta how they did recently, so instead of one huge piece of metal bending, its just a series of smaller ones moving about.

Eh.... I don't know if that's any more plausible..... You have to keep in mind that his limbs are buried within all the metal, so it's got to allow for human movements.

In something like X2's what's his name (yeah, I'm not much of a comics geek), his metal skin can be BSed through some "organic metal like state" crap since he is very organic through and through with the "magic" of DNA mutation. With Iron Man, he's just a crippled scientist that builds a metal exoskeleton suit that he wears. Hard to BS with anything that's not within the grasp of immediate technology.

you have to take your "i'm gonna be a dickhead" googles off and realise you should shut the fuck up.

I think I touched someone's sore spot.

 

[olimario]

BAD ART.
Generic Anime

BAD ART.
Generic Anime in 3D + Stupid Circus Art

BAD ART.
Is this a male take on Sudeki? (EDIT: HOLY CRAP... THIS IS SUDEKI ART?)

BAD ART.
The reason people think lowly of western art.

BAD ART.
Horrible color scheme and stupid character desing. Looks like the brainchild of a bloodthirsty pre-teen.

BAD ART.
If you're going to make link more realistic, loose the anime face. Make everything more realistic. I saw the next to MGS3's The Boss and Link just looks stupid by comparison.

 

[Liono]

Wow, aren't you the art critic.

 

[Shogmaster]

BAD ART.
Generic Anime

If that's bad art, I don't want to do "good" art.

 

[belgurdo]

random annoying shit

Just shut the fuck up. This thread was doing fine without the comedy option derailment

 

[Shogmaster]

Just shut the fuck up. This thread was doing fine without the comedy option derailment

I'm afraid that the truth is more insidious than your assesment.

In reality, Oli is a deeply frustrated artist who will take his smoldering rage of self hate and morph it into pro-Nintendo fascist doctrine to rile up the rest of the disenfranchised Nintendroids to take over GA forums a la Hitler in 1930's Germany.

 

[olimario]

I'm just offering my opinion and if you don't consider it bad, you can surely agree that it's the worst in this thread.

And who are you to tell me to do anything, belgurdo? What did I say that was completely unfounded. Your opinion is no better than mine.

 

[Bristow]

Good art at the following site:

http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/

 

[Gribbix]

 

[Zaptruder]

BAD ART.
Generic Anime

BAD ART.
Generic Anime in 3D + Stupid Circus Art

BAD ART.
Is this a male take on Sudeki? (EDIT: HOLY CRAP... THIS IS SUDEKI ART?)

BAD ART.
The reason people think lowly of western art.

BAD ART.
Horrible color scheme and stupid character desing. Looks like the brainchild of a bloodthirsty pre-teen.

BAD ART.
If you're going to make link more realistic, loose the anime face. Make everything more realistic. I saw the next to MGS3's The Boss and Link just looks stupid by comparison.

BAD ART.

 

[olimario]

I never claimed to be a good artist. I don't have to be a good one to recognize bad art, though.

 

[karasu]

Oli, you're nuts.

 

[Shogmaster]

I never claimed to be a good artist. I don't have to be a good one to recognize bad art, though.

That's where you're wrong. Being a better artist let's you better appreciate what may seem "simple" or "bad art" if you are an lesser artist.

 

[Bobety]

Oli, you're nuts.

IAWTP

 

[DSN2K]

 

[J2 Cool]

Good art at the following site:

http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/

holy shit, under the artists profile they give links to their favorite websites and one is a link to a good friend of mine's personal website. :lol Man, it's a small world.

 

[Shinobi]

But seriously, when it comes to video game characters, Sonic's design is top-notch. It's simplistic, like radioheadrule83 showed in his port, in a Mickey Mouse/Felix the Cat kind of way. It's also a very appealing design.

Sure it may seem 'old hat' to everybody nowadays, but Sonic remains a very popular character among young kids even today. And I can tell you its not based on the quality of his recent games, that's for sure.

Hell, McDonalds is currently running a promotion with Sega featuring several portable LCD Sonic games. And Sonic X rates as high as any show on Fox Box. And Sonic has been one of the best selling Archie Comics since it's inception. And this is Sonic's what, fourth TV venture in the last decade? There are TV icons People can say whatever they want, but the fact remains that Sonic has been proven to have staying power and is certainly one of gaming's most iconic characters.

I'd have to go with The Boss, too. I mean, finally, an awesomely powerful and capable female character in a game that doesn't whore herself out every chance she gets, yet has the passion and care of a motherly figure. The thing about her exuding an aura of power and confidence is right on. She's neither a whore, nor a bubbly GIRL POWER ditz. Someone finally got a female character right (though what's-her-name from SH3 was pretty good, too, and there's always Samus, but her roles are traditionally unspoken...obviously, The Boss is the most fully fleshed-out character).

Interesting...that's how I'd describe Shenmue 2's Xiuying Hong, easily my favourite female game character ever.

Ren is also cool beyond words (funny as hell too)...

But the single coolest character ever is the bad ass muthafucka himself, Lan Di...

 

[olimario]

I'm nuts?
This is good?

:lol


And this is good?
:lol

:lol

Okay, guys.

 

[Shogmaster]

I'm nuts?
This is good?

:lol


And this is good?
:lol

:lol

Okay, guys.

Can you do better?

 

[Redbeard]

You seem to be confusing character design with the style in which they're drawn/rendered.

 

[olimario]

Can you do better?

Design wise? sure.
Art wise? Debatable.

Doesn't matter though. It's incorrect to think that you have to be good at something to judge whether or not someone else is. I don't have to be good at basketball to see a bad basketball player.

 

[J2 Cool]

Nice post Shinobi

 

[Shogmaster]

Design wise? sure.

Show me.

Art wise? Debatable.

Have you seen your stuff? :lol

Doesn't matter though. It's incorrect to think that you have to be good at something to judge whether or not someone else is. I don't have to be good at basketball to see a bad basketball player.

Sure you can judge, but you wouldn't have a clue as to what it took to get to their level.

 

[olimario]

Show me.



Have you seen your stuff? :lol




Sure you can judge, but you wouldn't have a clue as to what it took to get to their level.

I don't care what it took if what they draw looks like crap. Some people are born with an eye for art and the skill to get it out. I believe that I was born with the eye, but I can't draw worth a shit.

The NIGHTS character designs are NOT good.
Sudeki art is NOT good.

 

[Agent Icebeezy]

I say this everytime I think of it. Lan Di should be in a Virtua Fighter game

 

[Shogmaster]

I don't care what it took if what they draw looks like crap. Some people are born with an eye for art and the skill to get it out. I believe that I was born with the eye, but I can't draw worth a shit.

You'd make a perfect art director major candidate. Not because you actually have a good eye, but the fact that you have no skills to back up your opinionated views. :lol

The NIGHTS character designs are NOT good.
Sudeki art is NOT good.

They might be perfect designs for what the direction called for, ever think of that? Character design isn't all about doing what you think is cool to draw ya know. Trust me, sometimes you are drawing shit that you can't stand, but if that's the job, that's the job.

edit: BTW, There's a reason why Nights characters look the way they do. They were designs for a Saturn game. Not exactly a machine that can do detailed textures, so forget any ornate details. You can tell that Nights design is a good professional design because it looks so good in the Saturn realtime iterations.

 

[fatty]

Mr. Domino

Why? Because noboby can stop him.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Yoshitaka Amano's Tina

Kazuma Kaneko's Ulala

Yoji Shinkawa's Cyber Ninja

Also:

 

[Shouta]

Kanon from Wild Arms 2, One of my favorite character designs. She's the only character ahead of the one below.

Lenneth Valkyrie. Very kick ass design.

There's a ton more that I like but these usually standout in my head heh.

 

[belgurdo]

With all of the hoopla surrounding the fact that Amano would be doing the main designs for FFIX after a five year hiatus, I has seriously wished the game ended up looking like this instead of what we got. I always liked this particular art

 

[Doom_Bringer]

Aya from Parasite Eve I & II

Ninja from MGS1

I will update my post later with more.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Every Boss character in MGS3

play naruto 3 and you'll see why hehe

Mark of Kri

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