r/TomodachilifeLivingTD

If yall interested you can play it here: https://www.n-puzzle.com/en/nintendoku

UPDATE: I changed both Grant and Auntie Kim’s eyes to be open, but still read as east Asian. I commented the updated design images in the thread. Again, I deeply apologize to anyone who may have been hurt by their portrayal. It was not meant to be mean-spirited, offensive or “ugly”. I appreciate the input I have received.

UPDATE #2: I’ve received a few responses that my dark skinned black miis look ashy. Unfortunately, the color options for skin tones in the game are very limited and not the best. There’s no color wheel option, otherwise I’d use that. I tried to add saturation/variation in the forms of blush and contour, and they look better in the games daytime lighting VS the photoshoot. Just giving some context!

ORIGINAL:

Hey, y’all. This might be an overly serious question, but I had a friend explore my island recently and they commented on how my POC miis may look offensive. She remarked on the features such as the lips, noses and eyes specifically on my black and Asian miis.

It’s been bugging me quite a bit. I think they look really cute and reasonably diverse, and I based a lot of them off real people I’ve seen in the world. But I’m open to feedback as I don’t want to unknowingly make insensitive caricatures of other races and ethnicities. Here are some more details in order of appearance:

Image #1:
- Mr. Gupta (West Asian/Indian)
- Mrs. Gupta (West Asian/Indian)
- Penelope (West Asian/Indian - daughter of the Gupta family)
- Lotus (African American)
- Honey (Nigerian and also my mii’s wife <3 )
- Grant (Japanese)
- Leonardo (Jamaican)
- Christopher (Latino/Mexican)

Image #2:
- Chartreuse (Guatemalan)(Non-binary)
- Magnolia (Latino/White)
- Nephie (Congolese but fantasy inspired by magical girls)
- Kanani (Native Hawaiian)
- Clarice (African American)
- Mei (Chinese)
- Rosá (Afro-Latino)
- Bianca (African American with vitiligo)

Image #3:
- Samir (Arab)
- Shawn [LaShawna] (African American/Caribbean)
- Perri (Filipina)
- Steven (Latino)
- Gabriel (African American angel)
- Odette (African American but fantasy inspired by steampunk)
- Marqus (South Sudanese)
- Auntie Kim (Vietnamese)

I couldn’t send the photos to my phone directly, so the colors might look a little off. I didn’t include my “racially ambiguous” miis, and some have more lore than others. Please tell me what you think! Any feedback is appreciated.

My art, my creations.

Especially Megumi (black hair)… the face paint doesn’t go far enough to make the spikes 😢

Tips?

Edit: tysm everyone, that actually really helped! Ive commented the updated miis if anyone wants to see 🙃 I'm quite happy with the new verson

The movie is called Bowser: The Flames of Destiny or B:TFoD for short. Honestly it makes me happy because I spent quite a bit of time painting the art of Bowser in the game so I like that when I come to check up on them to see what they are doing, they are still watching the film.😊 Anyways, the art that is in the video treasure is how I usually draw Bowser. Most of my Mario Mii characters in my game I tried my best to be very faithful to their Official Mario game designs while still fitting for the art style of Miis, so I thought it would be fitting to draw Bowser in my more stylized way for the video treasure especially since in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Bowser painted himself stylized in a overly muscular way.😂 Anyways, in the comment section I will post the artwork I made of him by itself. It took me around 5 to 6 hours to paint this because of how the layering works. I hope in an update, the game could give you more layers for painting art, because it could save people a lot of time. Having multiple temporary saves could also be nice, maybe about 3 of them.

Lastly, one thing I found hilarious that I unfortunately didn't get the footage for it is that after Kamek spoke to Bowser and they went into Kamek's room, Bowser got very angry afterwards, almost as if he got mad at Kamek for interrupting him from watching the movie with his kids and his wife for something not worth stopping him for.🤣

I’m getting a little impatient here 😭

I struggle with piecing big pictures together for stuff like this. I want to redesign my whole island and I need inspiration. I’m way better at the finer details than the big picture. Thank you! Here’s a pic of my mii thinking shit cake is a good date bribe

Basically been getting on the game almost every day since I bought it, and pretty happy with it though wish I could do some things better, especially with the Pallete workshop I'd love to be able to make accurate clothing for my Miis, and just wish I was a better artist in general lol

Also some of the characters belong to my friends :P

if you ask me, the trick to getting emotionally invested in this game is to fill it with characters you come up with in the spur of the moment. i just kept experimenting with the mii maker until something stuck. anyone else here do the same?

so yeah, all of them are ocs (a few of them being deliberate knock-offs of existing characters but still technically ocs right?)… with the exception of one little critter who’s definitely not from another life simulator game.

they all got stories, or at least the framework for a story i can whip up if anyone asks… so ask away!