tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post3219043192602125749..comments2023-08-11T05:49:23.366-04:00Comments on Exploring Believability: Character Design: The Style of SubstanceJ. Sheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-52582574299344787402014-12-24T00:21:18.535-05:002014-12-24T00:21:18.535-05:00I would like to ask you about this matter by email...I would like to ask you about this matter by email if possible:<br /><br />brunokopte@gmail.com<br /><br />Thank you in advance.Curupirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13461605792321311381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-32129599606389394192013-07-08T17:56:37.228-04:002013-07-08T17:56:37.228-04:00Armor can still be very stylistic and utilitarian....Armor can still be very stylistic and utilitarian. Just look at Hellenic muscle armours. They have no need for nipples on the armour but they do because the Greeks believed the human form to be beautiful.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15011736927273625785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-50183879536506783202013-04-07T07:04:16.666-04:002013-04-07T07:04:16.666-04:00Just wanna say, that you're awesome. This arti...Just wanna say, that you're awesome. This article awesome. It's totaly true about environment and style. About veteran crusader and some new crusader difference are great examples.Max of Orienthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12480956250535404413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-39633322890969677212013-02-18T07:16:06.465-05:002013-02-18T07:16:06.465-05:00Breast aesthetics, there is a lot I do not know ab...Breast aesthetics, there is a lot I do not know about. There are those from Turkey you recommend Dr. Ali mezdeği. Do you have that information? <br /><a href="http://www.memeestetigi.org/" rel="nofollow">Meme estetiği</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15085045939236883267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-31712640460795828512013-01-05T22:23:34.632-05:002013-01-05T22:23:34.632-05:00Great article! Very informative and useful in char...Great article! Very informative and useful in character design of any medium, as others have also stated. Thanks.Warstubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12462907599044043765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-71605497487268225552012-10-23T13:41:38.341-04:002012-10-23T13:41:38.341-04:00Thanks for this article! Being a girl, when I look...Thanks for this article! Being a girl, when I look at games/shows where girls end up fighting in next to no clothing I can't sympathize with them. It would be nice to be stylish, but before all else I'd want the best damn armour I could wear without slowing to a turtle's speedAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12227267300375388227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-47635990536733122302012-08-29T03:34:02.953-04:002012-08-29T03:34:02.953-04:00I agree that making the outfit fit the environment...I agree that making the outfit fit the environment is key for being immersed in the storyline. your concept picture a beautiful and nice.thanks for sharing.this post.Thanksallmarcindiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00137751284823569648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-9537866535027050122012-04-10T11:52:35.283-04:002012-04-10T11:52:35.283-04:00You can't "respectfully disagree" ab...You can't "respectfully disagree" about it. Click the picture and look at the larger version, it looks nothing like bear skin. It might be cloth or it might be leather, it's NOT bare, and it's not a particularly unconventional design, either.J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-15785641823213945752012-04-10T04:14:57.796-04:002012-04-10T04:14:57.796-04:00I respectfully choose to disagree. He has bare han...I respectfully choose to disagree. He has bare hands; many swordfighters keep their hands bare for a secure grip. Cloth would slide, especially once sweaty. They would wear leather if they wore gloves.<br /><br />Even if we assumed that she had flesh-colored padded cloth on her leg, that would not slow down a fast-moving sharp metal sword for more than a hundredth of a second.VideoGamesCanBeArthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13984952604141303939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-47873538709727398882012-04-09T10:55:47.231-04:002012-04-09T10:55:47.231-04:00Her hands and legs aren't bare, that's pad...Her hands and legs aren't bare, that's padded cloth. Why the hell would she have bare hands and legs?J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-53139186158660861742012-04-09T08:41:52.500-04:002012-04-09T08:41:52.500-04:00Yes, the chain mail is laying loose on top of the ...Yes, the chain mail is laying loose on top of the leg armor. The sword would hit the metal on the leg, slide right up that metal, and there's nothing to stop the sword from going right into the thigh there. The chain mail is a pair of briefs; that wouldn't be any help with a sword skittering with force up the leg. The color in that gap is the same color as her bare hands.<br /><br />More well designed suits of armor would not have the leg stop like that, for that reason. Leg strikes were quite common. Instead, in one style, the upper armor would extend down so that the sword was caught and not allowed into that region. In other styles, the legs would be front-pieces to a more solid chain base beneath.VideoGamesCanBeArthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13984952604141303939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-26030948019544261902012-04-08T16:56:41.949-04:002012-04-08T16:56:41.949-04:00you mean the part where there's chain mailyou mean the part where there's chain mailJ. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-62972114729141941132012-04-08T15:05:29.561-04:002012-04-08T15:05:29.561-04:00I agree that making the outfit fit the environment...I agree that making the outfit fit the environment is key for being immersed in the storyline. When Princess Leia showed up in her slave outfit with Jabba the Hutt the outfit was extremely revealing. That made sense because part of Jabba's purpose was to denigrate her. It was not meant to be protective. <br /><br />However, when a fighting game presents a woman in a chain mail bikini, while the men around her are in full plate, it just looks silly. A woman still has a jugular vein in her neck. She still has a femoral artery in her upper thigh. She would want to protect these life-threatening-injury areas just as much as a man would.<br /><br />It figures - in the image shown above with the woman knight being held, her outfit has a giant gap right where the femoral artery is. A sword strike would almost be directed there by the metal.VideoGamesCanBeArthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13984952604141303939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-39150615930505981752012-02-01T02:18:05.637-05:002012-02-01T02:18:05.637-05:00Fun fact about Soul Calibur IV, though, it's e...Fun fact about Soul Calibur IV, though, it's easier to create a reasonable female character there than in basically any other game I can name simply because they give you so many options. Of course it's easy to make a scantily-clad or ridiculously-clad character as well, but choice is choice and it's wholly possible to make a female knight clad head-to-toe in plate and mail, a female samurai with all the standard accouterments of that particular class, and other such combinations. The body types allow you to go from totally flat to hilariously large-chested (as opposed to many boob sliders which go from "large" to "very large"), and the "muscle slider" has a pretty extraordinary range too.<br /><br />So in short I like Soul Calibur because it gives me the tools to make actual good designs, which is honestly why I don't care as much as one might think about their bad ones.J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-32448083005169565822012-02-01T01:47:31.694-05:002012-02-01T01:47:31.694-05:00I guess that is sad but true.I guess that is sad but true.EdgeryWorthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14362304125889146362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-45877361482144533672012-02-01T01:33:29.057-05:002012-02-01T01:33:29.057-05:00But it does sum up the game in a single image.But it does sum up the game in a single image.J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-9056805443009335962012-02-01T01:19:11.723-05:002012-02-01T01:19:11.723-05:00I wouldn't want one of Mitsurugi's bare ch...I wouldn't want one of Mitsurugi's bare chest either though. Because to me, it completely fails as an advertisement to the game. I fully expect giant boobs flying all over the place in Soul Calibur, or any other fighting game. But when a poster advertising the game (something that is supposed to A) sum up the game in a single image, and b) entice me to want to buy the game) says "buy SCV: We have T&A and it will make your penis happy" in such a blatant way offends me. And I honestly don't get offended that easy. But I feel like it's insulting me as a customer because "Well obviously anyone who buys Soul Calibur wants some hot chesticles in their face." To me this poster goes beyond having Ivy dress like a dominatrix and having every character's bust size inflate every game.EdgeryWorthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14362304125889146362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-53181994891276821692012-01-31T21:16:25.463-05:002012-01-31T21:16:25.463-05:00I'm gonna be honest, that doesn't bother m...I'm gonna be honest, that doesn't bother me as much as it should. I'd be perfectly okay with, say, an equivalent poster showing Mitsurugi's bare chest or something, but of course the Feminine/Masculine Unequal Sexualization Returns issue would mean that wouldn't be good enough to balance it out.J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-43188680995888899162012-01-31T06:29:52.457-05:002012-01-31T06:29:52.457-05:00While we're on the subject of Soul Calibur...h...While we're on the subject of Soul Calibur...have you seen some of the advertisement posters for SCV? It's a new low for the series, and that's saying something. http://tinyurl.com/8a7kgxf .. http://tinyurl.com/6lncl2n .. The first one translates to "Go big or go home."EdgeryWorthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14362304125889146362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-89384484069637339952012-01-29T02:31:10.054-05:002012-01-29T02:31:10.054-05:00I agree, thanks for an informative and entertainin...I agree, thanks for an informative and entertaining article!Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631266908276124673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-1993062434711027542012-01-23T05:08:31.869-05:002012-01-23T05:08:31.869-05:00Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!J. Sheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10652255892382558843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3493946997489326661.post-49883887637559344642012-01-22T09:08:08.199-05:002012-01-22T09:08:08.199-05:00Just wanted to pop in and say that this has been a...Just wanted to pop in and say that this has been a great example of where a solid understanding of establishing meaning in design translates into an insightful blog post. Useful outside of game design even.<br />Cheers!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16379206874396840635noreply@blogger.com