Always been a fan of the designs in Arms, but the formal dresses they gave the characters are so good, and it's a shame they were only used for the one year anniversary artwork.
They're classy, yet still fit with the characters.
The fact that he is some unidentifiable sort of griffin-like creature with human looking parents always kills me. My favorite part of this design definitely has to be snake arm and the fact that it is sometimes a sentient creature that functions without any commands from Xavier.
Life…
Pictured: Timmy, Phineas and Ferb, Gumball
The idea of taking the normal Pac-Man design and adding more details sounds horrible (and most non-standard Pac-Men prove that) but they cooked here.
He's so expressive, but not so much that it's uncanny (cough Ghostly Adventures cough). I think it works so well because they kept his simplicity. Like he doesn't have defined lips or fingers.
I also love the glow-up on his shoes. He feels like a younger Pac-Man, but still has the spirit of the OG.
It just looks so lazy and ugly I hate the teeth
The story of a serial killer frankenstein in the afterlife. Very halloween gothic themed yet in a Kirbyesque aesthetic.
Imagine this: It's an ordinary day. You are walking outside and suddenly, a gigantic face that's a copy of yours floats towards you. There's a rope dangling at the lower part of the head. At the end of the rope, there's a noose, which gets swung towards you, reaching for your neck. The balloon head doesn't say anything but just makes manic expressions while it keeps tracing you without getting exhausted. If you hide indoors, it will wait outside the door or windows. If you shoot it, your own face will get damaged the same way and crumble when the life leaks out. You can't cut the rope easily either since it's metallic and thick. If the balloon eventually gets the noose around your neck, you'll get hanged to death while the balloon quietly lifts you high up in the sky to accompany other balloons which have caught their human resemblance.
The hanging balloons are a simple yet obscure concept which were inspired by a real life case where the suicide of a pop idol triggered many of their fans to take their own lives the same way.
While balloons are often seen in horror stories, I have not encountered them being applied to the story this way before. Their well-thought-out functioning and structure made the situation feel hopeless and ghostly.
The anime is called "Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre" (Episode 3) whereas the manga pages are from the short story "The Hanging Balloons" from "The Horror World of Junji Ito" collection.
(She starts as the dinosaur btw)
I love her kimono in human form, plus the dinosaur form is awesome and makes her being a Berserker class make sense, plus I love when they draw her as a silly dino.
"According to legend, she was killed by Taira no Koremochi during the Heian period, on Mount Togakushi. She was also said to be the leader of a group of bandits who opposed the Imperial Court, or a lady who taught villagers how to read and write and healed their illnesses. Her story was presented extensively in the form of a noh, jōruri and kabuki performance, the "Momijigari""
Kijyo Koyo's dinosaur form was inspired by a great skeleton of a dragon god of the mountains which impressed her; perhaps in truth it was a dinosaur fossil.
In Chaldea (The lobby), she is almost always in dinosaur form and she avoids being in her Kijyo form as much as possible. The wounds on her dino-form's face cannot be hidden or changed with magic, for they are reminders of her fatal battle with Taira-no-Koremochi.
Here's the first official look of "Clayface" from Absolute Batman comics and he full design was revealed today by Scott Snyder on his account also with a volume cover AB vs clayface shapeshift into batman.
When i look at the early characters and their design, they look so SIMPLE, easy, and that's the appeal, they look so good because they are comprehensible and actually looks the part for the world,
Amber's outfit is easy for the eye, and i could tell from her vibe alone what her personality and profession would be,
Jean's fit is clean,
Venti's unapologetically downright outstanding without looking too much,
Klee is very good who also gives off the same vibe as Amber,
Hu tao and ZhongLi could easily be recognized because of their silhouette,
They're memorable
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But recent new characters doesn't have that same appeal, they look so hard to look at because of all the random straps on their body, the excessive frills and cloths everywhere, its like they overdesign them and hope something would work, not a fan of the recent character designs,
The color is everywhere, where am i even looking at,
I like how glamorous they look with the different colors and visuals on the outfits
I love the whole cosmic look and the mask is cool but I think he would've looked more badass if he had a beard. What do you think?
What's a character design that just makes you go..."Um...what the fuck am I looking at?"
I don't know if this is *the* absolute weirdest for me, but The Winter Windster from Wario World is definitely up there. The game devs must have been smoking something funky when they created this abomination.
A lot of people in the Godzilla fandom know Gigabash as the Kaiju arena brawler that has Godzilla, Ultraman and Gamera crossing over, but the original Kaiju (and Mecha and Kyodai Hero) designs are fantastic and ooze personality. Most of them are obvious homages to various monsters and heroes from Japanese Tokusatsu media or mythological creatures, and they do it so well while also setting them apart from their more popular counterparts. For example, Rawa is their Godzilla inspired Kaiju before they actually crossed over with Godzilla, but instead of being a generic clone of him like most media will do, they also made his design more like a Naga Dragon from Asian mythologies. Gigaman while being the obvious Ultraman inspired character before they actually got Ultraman sets himself apart by being more of a veteran Superhero who let go of himself after loosing a fight with a Kaiju that destroyed a city he was trying to protect, but decides to get back in the fight again after being inspired by Thundatross’(lightning Mech) pilot. A bunch of the designs are more simplistic but still work really well sort of like Nintendo characters like Kirby. Also this game is just really underrated in general and I wanted to talk about it, as there are very few choices for actually good modern games that let you play as giant monsters.
For such a disappointing villain (since he’s revealed to be >!a puppeteered corpse!<), they sure gave him an incredible design. The sheer contrast between the fur-lined cloak, camouflage pants, tie, tunic (?), military medals and tight-wrapped mask with the eloquently-written ‘D’ should look ridiculous, but these contrasting design elements actually blend very well together. It also fits into the idea that the Designer is a highly versatile and experienced criminal mastermind who’s been a legendary figure in the underworld for decades, adding to his sense of mystery and intrigue. He looks exactly like a refined, yet still over-the-top comic book villain with heavy influence from the noir and detective genres, and I love it.