Replying to comment by: Foxx H.how to die

Take some bleach

Replying to comment by: Hans/IvanOne word: Corruption.

I think Berke has it because he’s been around since pretty much the beginning and whilst he isn’t that active much anymore, he still made a butt load of figures back in the day

And Epitaphs simply a figure machine.

Replying to comment by: PermaSome attempts are there, but it seems like they may have gli

Glitched*

Replying to comment by: Ralph (Developer)sorry, no just Jericho, Phoenix pack, and a new Iori thumbn

Some attempts are there, but it seems like they may have glitches or something. Outlook recently got an update though, maybe it fixed the issue. I’ve resent Iori and the KOF pack and now it makes a little sound when I press send. Hopefully this is a good sign

Replying to comment by: PermaTime for Gyro’s opinion that no one asked for Whilst I agre

And always remember to Hitman Pack

Replying to comment by: Toxic911 AnimationsThe way you make and actually animate an animation determine

Time for Gyro’s opinion that no one asked for

Whilst I agree with most of what you said, character design is much more than just style, and does much more than just making your character look pretty, and I don’t like how you grossly over simplified animation, because animation is a blanket term, atleast professionally

There’s plenty of professional reasons to have a well designed character that I’ll be going over

1. Iconicy

Having a well designed character adds iconicy, as it’s easier recognize. Now contrary to some belief, having a well design character isn’t just about detail, it’s about conveying your character at a glance.
When you see something similar to the Simpsons you can say “Yep, that was probably made by Mat Groening” or if you see something that looks like Family Guy you can say “That reminds me of Seth McFarland’s work”

Now look at a stick figure with a scarf, who the hell is it made by? It could be anyone, because it’s just a figure. It’s hard to stylized just a blank figure, because most of the time the only factor that makes it stand out is it’s color and the scarf. I don’t know about you, but that’s not very much to work with if I was given those options.

When it comes to iconicy, 10 years later more people in a casual scene are going to remember a character like Explosive Bullet than a character like Heckray (No offense to Heckray) because there’s a lot more to distinguish him from the others than his scarf.

2. It shows effort

In a professional scene, there’s a lot more to animation than just the animation, granted you usually have a team when you’re in the professional scene but let’s imagine that you don’t, but are trying to get into it. A base fig slapping around other base figs probably isn’t gonna cut it

The animation is quality yes, but I could animate a ball bouncing and have it be a quality animation. It could be the smoothest most true to life ball animation you’ve ever seen and no one who knows animation in the slightest is going to impressed

Because it’s kinda basic. Everyone has done it in one point in their lives and it’s seen as something you move on from. It’s a learning exercise, you aren’t gonna get careers in bouncing ball animations.

Most high end schools usually require you to make a fully fledged short. Take diamond Jack for example, excellent short.

It employs simple yet effective character designs followed by quality animation, nice sound design and composition and it all just looks beautiful. Diamond Jack wouldn’t be as good if it was just the animation that was good. Neither would it be if just the character design is good. We need a mixture of both because minute details like how a character is design shows you put plenty of effort into every bit and thus then piece will be much more impressively.

3. It’s more appealing or welcoming or whatever

I don’t really know the word for this, but character designs helps catch the audiences eye.

If you’ve ever played an old arcade fighting game, the characters designs are usually very exaggerated and clear, the reason for this is because the player usually only has 30 seconds to choose a character without knowing anything about them, so their appearance is going to be what the player makes their decision on.

This easy to read style of character design is good for animation and cartoons too because it allows newer members of the audience to understand a character without having to go skimming through a wiki article to know what they’re about.

You don’t really get that with many scarf figs. Don’t get me wrong there are people who do this excellently, but for the most part, not all are easy to read.

4. It shows more effort

A common retort about most detailed figs is that they’re hard to animate and I will agree with this in some cases, tho in my experience I don’t have much trouble using them. But my point is; the fact that it’s hard to use is kinda the point

When you play a game on high difficulty the point is to challenge yourself. When you use a sh!t weapon in a shooter the point is to make-do with something that’s hard to use and/or broken.

We also gotta consider meta

When something is done a lot by a lot of people, people assume that it’s easy to do, if it wasn’t easy to do then why would so many people do it right? Well most of the time it isn’t easy to do, but the casual audience doesn’t know that, so a lot of things on video games especially are shunned for being easy and I think that’s what’s happening with scarf figs

Do they deserve it? Most of the time no. But you have to admit that using a more complicated fig requires more skill than using a scarf figure. And the fact it requires that skill is why a lot of people use them. It’s a badge of prestige kinda, showing that you know how to work around something difficult. It only becomes a problem when people start bothering other people for doing something a bit easier.

So basically shotguns and snipers in FPS’s

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Replying to comment by: Unknown@explosivebullet Hey, Bullet. So you know that stretchy bit

Is it invisible? If so it’s probably there so you can put some attachments on it