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At 11/23/23 08:11 AM, PearlHikara wrote: In anime where the fan-service character has unnaturally large breasts. Like I understand: the designers were trying to make them sexy. But come on!

I'm the kind of person to think of practically in designs (mainly because I'm a girl myself) and surely someone who has breasts 2 times bigger than their head would wear some kind of support so the breasts aren't moving all over the place (would be very uncomfortable otherwise). Not to mention that she's very top heavy so she'll be prone to falling due to all her weight being at her upper half.

Also big breasts ≠ more sexy. Just thought I should mention that (I'm lesbian I know what I'm talking about).


I've talked with people about these type of character designs and I get the same "She ain't real so why should it matter" excuse. I know it's popular in Japan, but that shit just don't sit right with me for obvious reasons. Plus they always gotta come up with some bullshit excuse on why this 11yr girl got fucking balloon tits.


According to the wiki: The reason for this girl's extremely massive breast size is a medical condition called macromastia (breast hypertrophy) which causes extreme breast growth.

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Wether you think it's a bullshit excuse or not for this design is entirely up to you. But imo, it's bullshit. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-23 15:00:34


At 11/23/23 01:10 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/23/23 08:11 AM, PearlHikara wrote: In anime where the fan-service character has unnaturally large breasts. Like I understand: the designers were trying to make them sexy. But come on!

I'm the kind of person to think of practically in designs (mainly because I'm a girl myself) and surely someone who has breasts 2 times bigger than their head would wear some kind of support so the breasts aren't moving all over the place (would be very uncomfortable otherwise). Not to mention that she's very top heavy so she'll be prone to falling due to all her weight being at her upper half.

Also big breasts ≠ more sexy. Just thought I should mention that (I'm lesbian I know what I'm talking about).
I've talked with people about these type of character designs and I get the same "She ain't real so why should it matter" excuse. I know it's popular in Japan, but that shit just don't sit right with me for obvious reasons. Plus they always gotta come up with some bullshit excuse on why this 11yr girl got fucking balloon tits.

According to the wiki: The reason for this girl's extremely massive breast size is a medical condition called macromastia (breast hypertrophy) which causes extreme breast growth.

Wether you think it's a bullshit excuse or not for this design is entirely up to you. But imo, it's bullshit. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.


That girl's spin go snap.


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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-23 15:00:52


At 11/23/23 03:00 PM, PearlHikara wrote:
At 11/23/23 01:10 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/23/23 08:11 AM, PearlHikara wrote: In anime where the fan-service character has unnaturally large breasts. Like I understand: the designers were trying to make them sexy. But come on!

I'm the kind of person to think of practically in designs (mainly because I'm a girl myself) and surely someone who has breasts 2 times bigger than their head would wear some kind of support so the breasts aren't moving all over the place (would be very uncomfortable otherwise). Not to mention that she's very top heavy so she'll be prone to falling due to all her weight being at her upper half.

Also big breasts ≠ more sexy. Just thought I should mention that (I'm lesbian I know what I'm talking about).
I've talked with people about these type of character designs and I get the same "She ain't real so why should it matter" excuse. I know it's popular in Japan, but that shit just don't sit right with me for obvious reasons. Plus they always gotta come up with some bullshit excuse on why this 11yr girl got fucking balloon tits.

According to the wiki: The reason for this girl's extremely massive breast size is a medical condition called macromastia (breast hypertrophy) which causes extreme breast growth.

Wether you think it's a bullshit excuse or not for this design is entirely up to you. But imo, it's bullshit. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
That girl's spin go snap.


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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-23 15:18:31


At 11/23/23 05:55 AM, CosmicPunked wrote:
At 11/22/23 01:24 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/22/23 11:02 AM, CosmicPunked wrote:
Also Hazbin's character designs are so lacklustre, not only that but they all have the same colour palette which seeing pink and red stick thin people all on the screen makes readability god awful.
Viziepop fans: "And I took that personally"
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To be fair...


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Ya did decide to end your post hating on a show's character designs by showing said designs have unique, varied, and easily identifiable silhouettes, which are all qualities of good character design.


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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-23 15:21:41


At 11/23/23 03:00 PM, PearlHikara wrote:
At 11/23/23 03:00 PM, PearlHikara wrote:
At 11/23/23 01:10 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/23/23 08:11 AM, PearlHikara wrote: In anime where the fan-service character has unnaturally large breasts. Like I understand: the designers were trying to make them sexy. But come on!

I'm the kind of person to think of practically in designs (mainly because I'm a girl myself) and surely someone who has breasts 2 times bigger than their head would wear some kind of support so the breasts aren't moving all over the place (would be very uncomfortable otherwise). Not to mention that she's very top heavy so she'll be prone to falling due to all her weight being at her upper half.

Also big breasts ≠ more sexy. Just thought I should mention that (I'm lesbian I know what I'm talking about).
I've talked with people about these type of character designs and I get the same "She ain't real so why should it matter" excuse. I know it's popular in Japan, but that shit just don't sit right with me for obvious reasons. Plus they always gotta come up with some bullshit excuse on why this 11yr girl got fucking balloon tits.

According to the wiki: The reason for this girl's extremely massive breast size is a medical condition called macromastia (breast hypertrophy) which causes extreme breast growth.

Wether you think it's a bullshit excuse or not for this design is entirely up to you. But imo, it's bullshit. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
That girl's spin go snap.
*spine


Most likely. But in anime, nobody ever has breast related back issues. Because fuck logic.


Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-23 15:28:28


having a character with large boobs/tits for no reason other then sex appeal. Like come on, is it a prono at that point? Because it's stupid.


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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-23 15:42:32


You see this a lot in JRPGs and even some anime. But I hate it when I see that the whole cast of characters have interesting designs with lots of personality, and the lead character has the most uninspired design. Typically a young adult male with spikey hair, and if it is a fantasy setting, is the one who weilds a sword.

Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-23 16:46:25


At 11/23/23 03:21 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/23/23 03:00 PM, PearlHikara wrote:
At 11/23/23 03:00 PM, PearlHikara wrote:
At 11/23/23 01:10 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/23/23 08:11 AM, PearlHikara wrote: In anime where the fan-service character has unnaturally large breasts. Like I understand: the designers were trying to make them sexy. But come on!

I'm the kind of person to think of practically in designs (mainly because I'm a girl myself) and surely someone who has breasts 2 times bigger than their head would wear some kind of support so the breasts aren't moving all over the place (would be very uncomfortable otherwise). Not to mention that she's very top heavy so she'll be prone to falling due to all her weight being at her upper half.

Also big breasts ≠ more sexy. Just thought I should mention that (I'm lesbian I know what I'm talking about).
I've talked with people about these type of character designs and I get the same "She ain't real so why should it matter" excuse. I know it's popular in Japan, but that shit just don't sit right with me for obvious reasons. Plus they always gotta come up with some bullshit excuse on why this 11yr girl got fucking balloon tits.

According to the wiki: The reason for this girl's extremely massive breast size is a medical condition called macromastia (breast hypertrophy) which causes extreme breast growth.

Wether you think it's a bullshit excuse or not for this design is entirely up to you. But imo, it's bullshit. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
That girl's spin go snap.
*spine
Most likely. But in anime, nobody ever has breast related back issues. Because fuck logic.


I also looked up "macromastia" on google images and the breasts aren't the right size nor shape for an 11 year old. Obviously it depends on the person, but it kinda seems like a cheap excuse in this situation.


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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-23 17:07:00


At 11/23/23 04:46 PM, PearlHikara wrote:
At 11/23/23 03:21 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/23/23 03:00 PM, PearlHikara wrote:
At 11/23/23 03:00 PM, PearlHikara wrote:
At 11/23/23 01:10 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/23/23 08:11 AM, PearlHikara wrote: In anime where the fan-service character has unnaturally large breasts. Like I understand: the designers were trying to make them sexy. But come on!

I'm the kind of person to think of practically in designs (mainly because I'm a girl myself) and surely someone who has breasts 2 times bigger than their head would wear some kind of support so the breasts aren't moving all over the place (would be very uncomfortable otherwise). Not to mention that she's very top heavy so she'll be prone to falling due to all her weight being at her upper half.

Also big breasts ≠ more sexy. Just thought I should mention that (I'm lesbian I know what I'm talking about).
I've talked with people about these type of character designs and I get the same "She ain't real so why should it matter" excuse. I know it's popular in Japan, but that shit just don't sit right with me for obvious reasons. Plus they always gotta come up with some bullshit excuse on why this 11yr girl got fucking balloon tits.

According to the wiki: The reason for this girl's extremely massive breast size is a medical condition called macromastia (breast hypertrophy) which causes extreme breast growth.

Wether you think it's a bullshit excuse or not for this design is entirely up to you. But imo, it's bullshit. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
That girl's spin go snap.
*spine
Most likely. But in anime, nobody ever has breast related back issues. Because fuck logic.
I also looked up "macromastia" on google images and the breasts aren't the right size nor shape for an 11 year old. Obviously it depends on the person, but it kinda seems like a cheap excuse in this situation.


Tbh there isn't any excuse for boobs like that, but Japan will be Japan. I'm just waiting for that one super weeb to pop in here tell me to stop slandering his H cup waifu.



At 11/17/23 01:46 PM, Artcompany wrote: Can be from video games, cartoons, anime whatever as long as it was designed by a person it works. This is your place to vent about those annoying things you keep seeing in character designs, both professional and ametur, that you just hate. Let your hate out here.

I'll start. I hate when non human designs make the character's skin a supersaturated color, it burns my eyes so much especially when the rest of it is equally saturated. (before you get on m for ragging on kids Lapis Lazuli past jailbreak literally hurts my eyes to look.)


I don't like characters who are written explicitly to have the most clear and easy-to-see personality possible. Like yeah, it can be satisfying to see their character arc, but ultimately when I see those types of characters it makes me feel like I'm watching a kid's movie, where to them it's harder to pay attention to someone's character, so they have to make it really obvious for them to understand.


I enjoy characters who are written to not have an obvious standing-out personality, and you have to pay attention to the movie to see how their personality affects their choices and words. Like the new Oppenheimer movie for instance.


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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-23 20:55:28


Any kind of "Neko girl" that has both animal ears and human ears. Why does she need both sets of ears?

Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-23 23:42:25


At 11/23/23 04:46 PM, PearlHikara wrote: I also looked up "macromastia" on google images and the breasts aren't the right size nor shape for an 11 year old. Obviously it depends on the person, but it kinda seems like a cheap excuse in this situation.

I'm sorry, are we talking about Ilulu here or Kanna here? Because like in Dragon Maid, Ilulu's aged 16 and she's 130 cm, so basically she's a dwarf, or in porn circles, shortstack. But then again, as much as I like Dragon Maid, I don't believe this is a wrong assumption, it's that it's only seems right if you looked for her and not other characters like Tohru, Elma or Kanna. I mean, sure, she has a bigger head than the others (By looking and comparing the head vs. the arms.) when compared to Tohru and Elma (Lucoa doesn't count because the manga NEVER states her age at all and would be detestably older.) but it's not so much of the same proportions as Kanna.

And I know you might say "what about Riko?" and that isn't considered because for one, the previous characters I've mentioned ARE dragons and you are seeing their human form, which is magic by the way, and for two, said forms don't apply with how bodies actually work. Ilulu's a more weird case because her breast size is the cause of them being flame bags? I don't know if you're lucky about her breast size being a problem in her balance (And also Magnedeus) because the very same chapter that Ilulu mentions her age is also the same chapter (It's 52.) that somewhat acknowledges that problem, just at the very end of the chapter.

Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-24 13:02:37


At 11/23/23 03:18 PM, Narratorway wrote:
At 11/23/23 05:55 AM, CosmicPunked wrote:
At 11/22/23 01:24 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/22/23 11:02 AM, CosmicPunked wrote:
Also Hazbin's character designs are so lacklustre, not only that but they all have the same colour palette which seeing pink and red stick thin people all on the screen makes readability god awful.
Viziepop fans: "And I took that personally"
Me waking up to 0 followers because I have summoned a witching mob
To be fair...

Ya did decide to end your post hating on a show's character designs by showing said designs have unique, varied, and easily identifiable silhouettes, which are all qualities of good character design.


Uh oh, found the viziepop crusader.

If you think those are varied then I am sorry to break it to you but having the same body type scaled a little bit doesn't make them good designs,

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This image here shows their silhouettes interacting and overlaying with one another, unless you know the characters every detail then it's very difficult to be able to identify who is what and what is going on, now imagine if there was a fighting scene and that these silhouettes move and entwine with one another very quickly, majority of these also all have the same colour palette, making flashes of pink and red with the same body types very difficult to see who is doing what, making the readability in a scene very difficult to decipher.


If we look at other animation character silhouettes, like Looney Toons

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I never watched a lot of looney toons growing up, but the gesture, pose,shape diversity is a lot more variable than the stick thin body. If these characters were to fight, you would be able to differentiate who and what is happening a lot better, especially with the colour diversity.


So yeah, I said what I said.



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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-24 16:13:42


Viziepop's main problem are the colors she chooses. I personally love her designs and find them fun to look at, but sometimes they blend into one another when characters interact. The Helluva Boss poster used to promote the show is a good example. You can't tell what limbs are going where because the red, black, and white are all dominating the whole thing.


Someone already mentioned bad designs in Dragon Maid, so as far as tropes I hate: when tails are put on the wrong spot. They don't grow out of the ass. It's a tail, not a toy. Don't know how a mistake like that gets made. I don't see it often anymore, but when I do it's very annoying.

Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-24 17:50:03


2 things come to mind: Those super simple corporate art styles and when the female version of a species/character/etc is just given boobs and hips to say ''look, it's the woman version!''. That's why i love kitty softpaws


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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-24 19:30:16


At 11/24/23 01:02 PM, CosmicPunked wrote:
At 11/23/23 03:18 PM, Narratorway wrote:
At 11/23/23 05:55 AM, CosmicPunked wrote:
At 11/22/23 01:24 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/22/23 11:02 AM, CosmicPunked wrote:
Also Hazbin's character designs are so lacklustre, not only that but they all have the same colour palette which seeing pink and red stick thin people all on the screen makes readability god awful.
Viziepop fans: "And I took that personally"
Me waking up to 0 followers because I have summoned a witching mob
To be fair...

Ya did decide to end your post hating on a show's character designs by showing said designs have unique, varied, and easily identifiable silhouettes, which are all qualities of good character design.
Uh oh, found the viziepop crusader.
If you think those are varied then I am sorry to break it to you but having the same body type scaled a little bit doesn't make them good designs,

This image here shows their silhouettes interacting and overlaying with one another, unless you know the characters every detail then it's very difficult to be able to identify who is what and what is going on, now imagine if there was a fighting scene and that these silhouettes move and entwine with one another very quickly, majority of these also all have the same colour palette, making flashes of pink and red with the same body types very difficult to see who is doing what, making the readability in a scene very difficult to decipher.

If we look at other animation character silhouettes, like Looney Toons

I never watched a lot of looney toons growing up, but the gesture, pose,shape diversity is a lot more variable than the stick thin body. If these characters were to fight, you would be able to differentiate who and what is happening a lot better, especially with the colour diversity.

So yeah, I said what I said.


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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-24 20:08:46


At 11/24/23 01:02 PM, CosmicPunked wrote:
At 11/23/23 03:18 PM, Narratorway wrote:
At 11/23/23 05:55 AM, CosmicPunked wrote:
At 11/22/23 01:24 PM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/22/23 11:02 AM, CosmicPunked wrote:
Also Hazbin's character designs are so lacklustre, not only that but they all have the same colour palette which seeing pink and red stick thin people all on the screen makes readability god awful.
Viziepop fans: "And I took that personally"
Me waking up to 0 followers because I have summoned a witching mob
To be fair...

Ya did decide to end your post hating on a show's character designs by showing said designs have unique, varied, and easily identifiable silhouettes, which are all qualities of good character design.
Uh oh, found the viziepop crusader.
If you think those are varied then I am sorry to break it to you but having the same body type scaled a little bit doesn't make them good designs,

This image here shows their silhouettes interacting and overlaying with one another, unless you know the characters every detail then it's very difficult to be able to identify who is what and what is going on, now imagine if there was a fighting scene and that these silhouettes move and entwine with one another very quickly, majority of these also all have the same colour palette, making flashes of pink and red with the same body types very difficult to see who is doing what, making the readability in a scene very difficult to decipher.

If we look at other animation character silhouettes, like Looney Toons

I never watched a lot of looney toons growing up, but the gesture, pose,shape diversity is a lot more variable than the stick thin body. If these characters were to fight, you would be able to differentiate who and what is happening a lot better, especially with the colour diversity.

So yeah, I said what I said.


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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-27 15:00:53


At 11/21/23 07:05 PM, Gribbus07 wrote: When every character has the same face/clothing (mostly in some slice of life anime)


The clothes can work if they're wearing uniforms but face is inexcusable.

Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-27 15:08:32


At 11/22/23 10:12 PM, Rockgaming wrote: Characters with realistic lips. It either looks really weird and gross like in big mouth, or straight up racist like colonel black from dragon ball. It's really distracting unless if it's done well which it usually isn't and it's something I try to avoid doing.


I would call that more a donut lips than realistic. donut lips are definitely terrible tho. Not only does it look stupid but 9/10 it's used for some minstral looking shit.


I just remembered another trope I hate. When animal characters are designed to be sexy. I don't mean the standard furry shit,as long as they keep it away froms kids idk, but I mean on all fours animal character. They always make them boob shaped chest fur/feathers and wide hips, because they always do this with female characters. And they have them act all sultry. It's even worse because this shit is almost always in kids stuff. Why do kids have to be exposed to that? It's repulsive. Everytime I see it I think someone on the team is into beastality or some shit.


Speaking of anthros I hate when artist give non mamilan anthros boobs. Why do they have them, they don't breastfeed?!?

Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-27 16:28:06


At 11/23/23 08:55 PM, stupidvampire wrote: Any kind of "Neko girl" that has both animal ears and human ears. Why does she need both sets of ears?


4X the hearing?


Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-27 18:05:18


Speaking of anthros I hate when artist give non mamilan anthros boobs. Why do they have them, they don't breastfeed?!?


True. Actually if about dragons. Nobody said they are actually reptiles, but that way they drew it can’t be associated with mammals. Actually I just got bored from that :/.


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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-27 21:09:36


At 11/27/23 06:05 PM, SlaySly wrote:
Speaking of anthros I hate when artist give non mamilan anthros boobs. Why do they have them, they don't breastfeed?!?
True. Actually if about dragons. Nobody said they are actually reptiles, but that way they drew it can’t be associated with mammals. Actually I just got bored from that :/.


While in theory dragons can be mammals they're almost always drawn as either reptilian or occasionally avian. Either way they should not have boobs.

Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-27 21:12:56


At 11/23/23 08:55 PM, stupidvampire wrote: Any kind of "Neko girl" that has both animal ears and human ears. Why does she need both sets of ears?


as someone with extreme noise sensitivity the idea of having Two sets of ears is viscerally unpleasant and i feel bad for these hypothetical catgirls


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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-27 22:16:55


I have a very easy one that bugs me, and that is too many belts.

My biggest example is Lulu from Final Fantasy 10, to which I think the top part of the design is fine until THE BELTS!

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Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-27 23:54:41


TL;DR: Modern Clowns Are Too Generic, Pomni Is To Blame


Since the Amazing Digital Circus has been very big

lately, I want to say that I've been coming to hate the

generic "stereotypical" clown/jester-type of character

designs.

A lot of clown characters have become very

popular since many years now, ranging from

Pennywise to Jevil, from Marx to Pomni, and, it may

be just me, but the designs have been increasingly less

and less creative and more uninspired, you know?

Like, let's take Geiru Toneido for example, Clussy

fever girl as you may know her. She's a clown girl,

but at least her design was somewhat different from

the more typical "poofy" outfit seen in characters such

as Jevil, and Pomni.

I understand that, apparently, clown girls are the new

goth girls, and it's very often that a clown character

becomes really popular and people seem to like and

love clown/jester characters like Marx from Kirby, but

I guess I find it very boring and repetitive when each

new character seems less than a creative re-edition

and more like a lame pallette-swapped version of

Jevil or Harley Quinn.

And people think that I say this because I hate the

characters, when in reality I genuinely fell in love

with Pomni and I always loved Marx, etc. I'm saying

this precisely because I love those characters and

I can't help but think that Pomni's design would have

been much better with a bit of extra creativity.

I'm not a character designer and I don't know the

first thing about design, but I even want to try my hand

at re-designing Pomni. I just find her design sad.

I blame Sailor Moon for this way of thinking, since

my favorite Sailor Moon season was the Dead Moon

Circus one, and growing up watching it altered my

standards for circus-themed characters, or something.

Anyways, this was a long rant, sorry, but yeah, this is

a design trope I hate.


It's all there in the manual.

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At 11/27/23 11:54 PM, YukarinLadyboss495 wrote: TL;DR: Modern Clowns Are Too Generic, Pomni Is To Blame

Since the Amazing Digital Circus has been very big
lately, I want to say that I've been coming to hate the
generic "stereotypical" clown/jester-type of character
designs.
A lot of clown characters have become very
popular since many years now, ranging from
Pennywise to Jevil, from Marx to Pomni, and, it may
be just me, but the designs have been increasingly less
and less creative and more uninspired, you know?
Like, let's take Geiru Toneido for example, Clussy
fever girl as you may know her. She's a clown girl,
but at least her design was somewhat different from
the more typical "poofy" outfit seen in characters such
as Jevil, and Pomni.
I understand that, apparently, clown girls are the new
goth girls, and it's very often that a clown character
becomes really popular and people seem to like and
love clown/jester characters like Marx from Kirby, but
I guess I find it very boring and repetitive when each
new character seems less than a creative re-edition
and more like a lame pallette-swapped version of
Jevil or Harley Quinn.
And people think that I say this because I hate the
characters, when in reality I genuinely fell in love
with Pomni and I always loved Marx, etc. I'm saying
this precisely because I love those characters and
I can't help but think that Pomni's design would have
been much better with a bit of extra creativity.
I'm not a character designer and I don't know the
first thing about design, but I even want to try my hand
at re-designing Pomni. I just find her design sad.
I blame Sailor Moon for this way of thinking, since
my favorite Sailor Moon season was the Dead Moon
Circus one, and growing up watching it altered my
standards for circus-themed characters, or something.
Anyways, this was a long rant, sorry, but yeah, this is
a design trope I hate.


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At 11/27/23 11:54 PM, YukarinLadyboss495 wrote: TL;DR: Modern Clowns Are Too Generic, Pomni Is To Blame

Since the Amazing Digital Circus has been very big
lately, I want to say that I've been coming to hate the
generic "stereotypical" clown/jester-type of character
designs.
A lot of clown characters have become very
popular since many years now, ranging from
Pennywise to Jevil, from Marx to Pomni, and, it may
be just me, but the designs have been increasingly less
and less creative and more uninspired, you know?
Like, let's take Geiru Toneido for example, Clussy
fever girl as you may know her. She's a clown girl,
but at least her design was somewhat different from
the more typical "poofy" outfit seen in characters such
as Jevil, and Pomni.
I understand that, apparently, clown girls are the new
goth girls, and it's very often that a clown character
becomes really popular and people seem to like and
love clown/jester characters like Marx from Kirby, but
I guess I find it very boring and repetitive when each
new character seems less than a creative re-edition
and more like a lame pallette-swapped version of
Jevil or Harley Quinn.
And people think that I say this because I hate the
characters, when in reality I genuinely fell in love
with Pomni and I always loved Marx, etc. I'm saying
this precisely because I love those characters and
I can't help but think that Pomni's design would have
been much better with a bit of extra creativity.
I'm not a character designer and I don't know the
first thing about design, but I even want to try my hand
at re-designing Pomni. I just find her design sad.
I blame Sailor Moon for this way of thinking, since
my favorite Sailor Moon season was the Dead Moon
Circus one, and growing up watching it altered my
standards for circus-themed characters, or something.
Anyways, this was a long rant, sorry, but yeah, this is
a design trope I hate.


People are scared of this:

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But love this:

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and don't come at me with the "She's a jester not a clown" Clown is a synonym for jester.

Response to Character Design trope you hate 2023-11-28 02:04:09


At 11/28/23 01:56 AM, Magnedeus wrote:
At 11/27/23 11:54 PM, YukarinLadyboss495 wrote: TL;DR: Modern Clowns Are Too Generic, Pomni Is To Blame

Since the Amazing Digital Circus has been very big
lately, I want to say that I've been coming to hate the
generic "stereotypical" clown/jester-type of character
designs.
A lot of clown characters have become very
popular since many years now, ranging from
Pennywise to Jevil, from Marx to Pomni, and, it may
be just me, but the designs have been increasingly less
and less creative and more uninspired, you know?
Like, let's take Geiru Toneido for example, Clussy
fever girl as you may know her. She's a clown girl,
but at least her design was somewhat different from
the more typical "poofy" outfit seen in characters such
as Jevil, and Pomni.
I understand that, apparently, clown girls are the new
goth girls, and it's very often that a clown character
becomes really popular and people seem to like and
love clown/jester characters like Marx from Kirby, but
I guess I find it very boring and repetitive when each
new character seems less than a creative re-edition
and more like a lame pallette-swapped version of
Jevil or Harley Quinn.
And people think that I say this because I hate the
characters, when in reality I genuinely fell in love
with Pomni and I always loved Marx, etc. I'm saying
this precisely because I love those characters and
I can't help but think that Pomni's design would have
been much better with a bit of extra creativity.
I'm not a character designer and I don't know the
first thing about design, but I even want to try my hand
at re-designing Pomni. I just find her design sad.
I blame Sailor Moon for this way of thinking, since
my favorite Sailor Moon season was the Dead Moon
Circus one, and growing up watching it altered my
standards for circus-themed characters, or something.
Anyways, this was a long rant, sorry, but yeah, this is
a design trope I hate.
People are scared of this:

But love this:

and don't come at me with the "She's a jester not a clown" Clown is a synonym for jester.


Ikr???? I want to laugh at the clown tripping

over their feet, not fuck 'em!


It's all there in the manual.

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