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Better human drawings

A topic by Carloniel created Apr 25, 2022 Views: 426 Replies: 4
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The humans look weird compared to the other characters, the game is awesome but thats a big problem in the inmersion

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that is on purpose, the humans have worse designs to set them apart as being ordinary. though it seems some of them will be getting improvments

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Tbh, them looking weird dont make them ordinary, I think the expirience can inprove a LOT if they look normal, or what we can consider "normal", because that can make them look even more boring and REAL

Because I mean Weird in terms of the textures and normal looking humans, not in their race

They look like they are from another game

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Hi Carloniel!

I had made a forum topic on this subject a while ago (which you can read here: https://itch.io/t/1885467/human-npc-sprites-thoughts), I get this criticism fairly often and I think it's 100% fair. I do try to make the human characters look a little off on purpose to contrast with divine beings, but I don't think that's conveyed very well. The human sprites look less like well-drawn ugly people and more like poorly-drawn people, period.

I am trying to improve, I did give two of the human NPCs (Greta and Ismael) redraws for 0.6.0, let me know if it's an improvement. I think Jean is a decent candidate for a redraw, just because he appears the most often, but what would you say is the worst offender? There's a reference pic in that thread with all the human characters.

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No, no :C , it's not that it offends or something Xl , it's just that it's weird since humans are already normal and well, the thing that felt weird is that their designs didn't fit well with the rest of the art, I think the idea is good, but in this case it's weird since the mix of textures is weird.

I'm sorry if I were rude, Thank you so much for the answer.