Replying to comment by: Krashvoid AnimsI quit Stick Nodes.

Welp, that was quick. To be honest, and this may sound mean, but uh, it’s probably not gonna matter much. I would say “Sad to see you go” but I never knew you man. Good luck on future projects I guess.

Replying to comment by: PermaHHMMMMMMMMMMMM. Ok. You should look up Alan Becker’s vide

OK Nevermind I suddenly have enough energy.

Character Design doesn’t always mean details as some people say, but you do need to have a certain amount of detail to easily get the point across.

The reason I say “Good Design isn’t just detail” is because if all you go in creating is detail, you’re gonna make something cluttered and unfun to animate.

The reason 3D models can have literally millions of Tufts of hair is because you aren’t animating the model directly. Most of the time the hair is static, and you’re just animating the skeleton, so as long as you create your model around the skeleton, it’ll be easy peasy to animate.

Us StickNoders have it incredibly good, as stick figure animation is significantly easier than drawn/digital animation, Over-detail is definitely a problem in those.
The reason is, you’re gonna have to be animating those details over, and over, and over.

It’s less of a problem in stick nodes, as you make the figure and enough angles, and you’ll be able to use it throughout the entire animation, only ever having to slightly edit it, instead of drawing it a thousand times.

The problem of over detail in stick figures is inflexibility.

The more details your fig has, the harder it can be to animate, and it will always be more inflexible than other figs.

Take EB’s NBC Veteran, it’s an amazing figure, really highly detailed, that fits the tone and aesthetic of the series, Project Landfall.

BUT, if go and mess with the fig a bit, in certain areas, it kinda falls apart. Now these are small areas and EB will definitely be able to work around them, but they’re generally not as flexible as a base figure.

But anyway I’m kinda getting off track.

The reason good character design matters, is: 1. It shows care, and it shows that you’re taking this seriously, which will allow people to take YOU more seriously.

2. It’s more professional. And if you’re a bit ambitious like me, it’s nice to make work comparable to actual professionals.

3. The character will be ten times as iconic.
When you look at Link you think; “Brave adventurer”
When you look at Samus you think; “Space Robot dude”
When you look at Master Chief you think; “Cool space soldier”
When you look at Solid Snake you think; “Futuristic SWAT police Vet guy”

These guys are iconic because they have such good designs.

4: Good design is much more flexible story-wise.
I don’t wanna brag, but I think my latest renditions of Gyro shows this. Gyro is a demolition specialist. His bright, wide goggles can be easily exaggerated to fit cartoony styles, like JackFly’s, Gyro’s dark, black and grey heavy design would allow him (With a lot more detail, of course) to easily fit into darker series, like Explosive Bullet’s, And his villainly design would allow him to be a good side villain in series like Epitaphs’s. (EPITAPH PLEASE)

In conclusion, I’m no expert, but this design (Along with the previous) just isn’t good. It tells me Jack s#!t about his personality, powers, backstory, and main living environment.

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I rate it an F

Replying to comment by: ∟υπαrω⊗ιfAπimsヾ(Spoop Hollow Knight)*Huff puff* welp my real creation this took me a week or so.

Just, look up Project Landfall in the stick figures page to see the standard set.

Replying to comment by: CookieInTheFaceHey @epitaph200 could you give me an example of how futurist

It’s weird man.

Like, there supposed to be big colonies with space ships and stuff, YET THEY STILL USE SWORDS AS THEIR MAIN WEAPONS.

I honestly have no idea how this world works, but we’ll get more of an idea once Epitaph get’s his Ipad.