*cracks knuckles* Get ready for a long ask
As an animator/artist myself, I have a lot to say about the character designs.
I'm sure you've heard this before, but these characters are not animation friendly. More detail just makes it harder to animate. (While Bee is a notorious example, nearly all of the characters suffer from this)
When designing a character for animation, you need to pick and choose the key parts of their design, because you're going to be drawing the same thing over and over.
Another thing: The characters have so much freaking red to them.
I won't dwell on this for long, but they don't stand out from the background because there's so much freaking red
(Another thing that bugs me is that the characters don't look like what the artist wanted them to be like)
Ex:
Charlie doesn't look like a doll
Vaggie barely has a moth resemblance
Angel Dust doesn't look like a spider
Alastor doesn't look like a deer
Niffty doesn't look like a bug or B-movie styled aliens
Ozzie doesn't look like a rooster
Beelzebub doesn't look like an animal trainer (you would think with all the suits and shit she likes to use, an animal trainer's outfit would be perfect for this)
Another thing: Her characters reuse the same design tropes. Bow ties, suits, fingerless gloves, gold tooth, stick thin figure, top hat, etc
I'd excuse it if this was a beginner artist (heck, I used to do this, but eventually learned and grew out of it) but this is a woman in her 30's who graduated art school.
TL;DR The designs are bad and hard as heck to animate
Couldn't have said it better myself
I feel like, when Viv sits down to design a new character, her personal preferences come first and everything they're actually supposed to represent second. Sort of tacked onto the final product like "yeah sure that'll do it"
As for the details, if I may add on: not long ago I've studied screencaps of a character from Helluva for redesign purposes. The amount of inconsistencies I came across was surprising! I'm pretty sure he didn't even have an official ref sheet (nor has one been posted to date), but I've heard that even for more prevalent characters the animators only have the most basic turnarounds? Also stuff like Millie's hair and spots tend to be inconsistent. With so much gratuitous/weird detail and apparently lack of proper reference, consistency suffers
Everyone is also very spiky and full of triangles; I'd love a more soft or even square character. Also some different body types... I mean, remember Mimzy from Hazbin? I don't know if Viv does. I wonder if she's still gonna appear at some point. But anyway
On a more positive note, there's a lot of background character designs that I find really cool & enjoyable! Maybe I'll make an appreciation post for them sometime
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Hiiiii! If you have a minute, look up both Phyllopteryx taeniolatus and Phycodurus eques! (Not necesseraly for a critter drawing just for looking at pretty things, because either would be a nightmare to draw probably with the shapes and colours.)
But they look gorgeous none the less!
I've been made aware of them by @murkyquirky and they are gorgeous! *v*
!!!! I have so many minutes to look at those bad boys!!! I LOVE sea dragons SO much aaaaa. Sea horses get all the fame but their cousins are so superior imo. Like, legit literal sea fairies 🧚♀️🐉🌿 (also, you can't tell me what to do (/j) SO! DRAWINGS BE UPON YE!)
Phyllopteryx Taelionatus aka Common Seadragon or Weedy Seadragon (ha!) & Phycodurus Eques aka Leafy Seadragon (my personal favourites)
What's funny is that, unlike bugs which are super symmetrical and rigid, these bad boys are 1000x more fun and easier to draw.
Cus I can lowkey bullshit my way with leafy-like fluid shapes, splash on a little colour and badabing badaboom, you got yourself a Leafy Boy 🌱🐉
(if i scheduled this right and if tumblr cooperates, i should have a little extra something posted after this 👀)
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Hey friends!
A new work, Monkey’s Paw (What He’s Always Wanted) by Sh1pp1ng_Gr3ml1n, was published today, with 1/1 Chapters released! It is Not Rated and Graphic Depictions Of Violence, and Major Character Death, with additional tags "Angst, Heavy Angst, Angst and Feels, Angst and Tragedy, Angst and Romance, angst/no comfort, Hurt No Comfort, Death, Character Death, Insanity, Eventual Insanity, Established Relationship, referenced abuse, (from Orbo), Loss, Grieving, Referenced Smut, monkey’s paw, Scarab gets what he’s always wanted but loses the only person who ever loved him, :), Orbo is a dick (I say this because I love him), They are exes to roommates to lovers in this fic, Their past relationship is referenced multiple times, Have fun crying, THIS ONE IS FOR YOU CINDY, Profanity, Because I have decided that Prismo gets to say fuck, He deserves it for what I’m going to do to him In this :), Nightmo, Nightmo but as Scarab, Scradow? Scark?, idk - Freeform, Oh, AND just to add insult to injury, let’s imagine that this is in the same universe as Grub Fever ;)"
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