welp. here it is. my first review in… years?lets goShape: lots of big simple shapes here. tha
welp. here it is. my first review in… years?lets goShape: lots of big simple shapes here. thats not bad, but the whole character feels very flat. its clear this character was not designed with the 3 dimensions in mind. this design speaks more toward a graphic design sense than to a character design sense. ½Color: ouch. ive touched on eyebleed many times, and this is a prime example. the colors are way too saturated. not to mention, Sam’s beak is full of a bunch of gradient colors. this is something of a pet peeve of mine. using gradients here and there isnt always terrible, but with a whole rainbow of colors, all swirling in non uniform directions, its very unpleasant to look at. generally, its a good idea to separate colors with clear lines. 0/2Originality: many people have pointed this out. everything about Sam’s new design reeks of all the same popular current cartoon visual trends of today. i hate using this term, but its very “Calarts” (calarts is kind of a misnomer, as its often attributed to art that isnt made by students of the California institute of the arts). i imagine whoever was hired for the redesign, was given nothing but pictures of steven universe and uncle grandpa to look at for reference. 0/2Anatomy: that mouth….. infuriates me. it frustrates me to no end, because looking at it, im forced to imagine how the hell it would even transate in 3d space. at least old sam made sense spatially. this is just…. the very worst case of side-mouth ive ever seen. 0/2Je Ne Sais Quoi: i know everyones already said everything about this redesign. and i get the hate, but it hurts, because i really do feel like turning toucan sam into a cartoon that’ll be dated months from now, could have been good. i was never a huge fan of his old design to begin with, and this couldve been a fun new direction. but it just reeks of a ceo somewhere being like “hey, make ‘em look like those cartoons the kids like” and im sure the designer was given very little room to work with to make it actually good. 0/2Final score: 1/10 its real bad folks. i dont think i’ll do this for every review, but i felt like actually taking a stab at redesigning sam myself. maintaining what i could of the vibe they were going for without making it so hard to look at. -- source link
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