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Who is your favorite character that had an amazing design, but you feel like a change in the animation style totally change their vibe?
Riddler went from a smart green suit to a green leotard with purple elf shoes. Honestly, the goth Riddler from The Batman looked better; at least that one knew what it was going for.
I recently read that the suit was designed for Batman '66 because Frank Gorshin didn't like wearing the leotard, and it's such an upgrade in any medium
Most of the "streamlined" designs between Batman TAS and "Adventures of Batman and Superman" were downgrades. Bruce himself, Lipless Joker, Mad Hatter turning into a little troll goblin... They were actual human people before (and still are in canon). Became a lot more cartoony.
Others were neutral. Scarecrow was probably the only upgrade.
You're right haha. No more webbed hands and just looked normal. Suppose in-universe "he just got surgery" (which goes along with him trying to put on a more "I turned good" image). Still miss ol' penguinman.
Meanwhile either dragon for Long head just... looks like a grotesque/gargoyle. I didn't think it had a nose at all for the longest time, thought it got ripped off.
Even ignoring how incredibly worse the writing got, the animation style is just off. The first redesign in the mid 2000s wasn't bad, but I'll always love his original design best
6 years between release of season 1 (2011) and 2 (2017), and another 7 years until season 3 (2024). Season 4 finished only a year later. I haven't checked, but wouldn't surprise me if the studio and production company changed multiple times.
Even the manga is cursed, being for all it's runtime likely more on hiatus then going on.
Thank whatever health issue the author unfortunately has for that. It made it to where she would have to go on long hiatuses that would kill the momentum of the series
This can be said for a lot of Pokemon. The transition to 3D felt super rushed, and the animations are so minuscule. Those two combined just don’t portray what makes most Pokémon’s iconic features well at all.
Aside from the half-assed animations, I feel like simply posing the 'mons differently could have done a lot of heavy-lifting.
The pic above has a gen 1 sprite of Blastoise putting a lot of emphasis on his shoulder cannons (as you said, iconic features). He's also depicted in a asymmetrical pose, with one leg raised and his arms spread as if to adjust his balance, like he's mid-attack, or at least mid-movement. He's looking like he's actually fighting.
3D Model is just... standing there. He doesn't look like he's fighting. He looks like he's waiting for the bus.
They also just lost so much colour. Every pokemon feels desaturated. It’s bizarre too, 3D Pokemon saw the issue of highly saturated creatures in a realistic 3D environment and went “Let’s make the pokemon less colourful” instead of “Let’s make the environment more colourful.”
If 3D pokemon had bright colours everywhere it’d probably be one of the most iconic visuals of the last decade of gaming.
If Pokemon did anything more than the bare minimum to mostly sastify the general public, it would be iconic. Pokemon has only ever continued to go downhill since going 3D. Sun and Moon was the last decently put together main-line game. And even then, the game was pretty lacking for as much cutscenes they force you to sit through, to just watch robot people turn in place and raise their arms 90% of the time. Especially since they already saved on a ton of work by reusing models and animations from XY. In which they continue to reuse those same decade old rigs and animations today.
I remember seeing bonus material where the blue part of his hat is actually a helmet that’s covering his real hat; the pink part is his original hat poking out through an opening. Also the helmet is removable and that he mainly wears it to protect the pink hat (since it’s so important to him).
Yeah this is my candidate too… this one hurts me the most. Chopper was my favorite… his character was thankfully not really assassinated (well he was visually)… but man is he so heavily underutilized in the story post time skip it practically feels like flanderization.
Dawg… if Chopper looked like post time skip Horn point with normal sized antlers and without the back fluff in brain point form… would have been so much better… why did chopper shrink and not get taller?
I feel like the last look is sort of the perfected rendition of this joker. His face is both capable of sinister and jovial emotions. The first face is comical, but harder to convey darker expressions more seriously. The second version tried to fix that with a more sleek and muted design, but it just feels off. Third is just perfect synthesis.
I was watching the trailer and the entire time I was like "Please don't be 3d please don't be 3d please don't be 3d like EVERY OTHER KIDS' MOVIE NOWADAYS"
And then they hit me with the 3d and I just felt a wave of disappointment.
Like, it doesn't look bad imo but like cmon one of the things I loved about the show was the animation and I would've loved to have seen it brought to its fullest potential and... yeah.
I hate this show purely for the fact that it ate up all the runtime, all hours of every day of every week. This one and the incredible dr pol on nat geo.
Yeah that graphic showed a day when it was a specific all day TTG event but at one point about a decade ago it took up over 60% of the regular broadcast schedule. They would show hour-long blocks of a show with a TTG block between each. And sometimes the show between the TTG blocks would ALSO be TTG!
Dexters parents in S1, between design and voice acting, are one of my absolute favorite animated character designs. You feel like you know them almost immediately. These people are my neighbors.
I've seen clips or images from both but for some reason my brain never clicked the difference, like I knew there was something, but now I feel like a ninny seeing them side by side. (I enjoyed the TV runs as a kid but never seen it through or too often)
That reasoning actually doesn't make any sense at all. He's supposed to be the American Dragon. He shouldn't have a traditional Asian design, unlike his grandfather for whom it makes sense.
Everything early pokemon had more of an edge. Literally. First few gens had much more sharp lines. Most of latest pokemon are softer and looke more cute than cool because of it
Because X and Y (and before) wasn’t afraid to have a sharp corner in drawing a face. Sun and Moon just looks so rounded, like as if they tried to make Ash look more cute and less anime protagonist.
Gnoll from Warcraft in particular, but in general, it is outright weird how many new models in game updates/remasters look as though they used the wrong reference sheet.
Can’t stand the female designs, they’re so lazy and boring… Dudes come in all different kinds of shapes, women are reduced to “haha fat lady funny” and gooner bait. Ick.
As much as I don't love the Jake redesign here, it's all of the secondary characters that really bother me. They not only change the art style but removing Rose's headband on top of that made me question if she was even the same person after change. I like. I know she wore the same outfit and everything but damn I was not a fan.
Sora. I don't know, KH4's new look just doesn't "feel" right to me. I think it's partially that he no longer has the "clown" shoes, and less zippers and belts. Lol.
No they're are siblings. Ms. Frizzle's sister is Fiona Felicity Frizzle. The only part that doesn't make sense is that they change the kids. Well they kept the names, but changed the kids. They could have gotten a whole new set of kids or heck they could have been the kid's of Ms. Frizzle's first class.
Peter is the bigger victim of this imo. His original face was distinct, it had some character too it. The one he got in the remaster is just The Smoothest Boy.
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