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I don't think this has been posted yet but, xavier renegade angel has one of the most ugliest designs I've ever seen.
What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?
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Isn’t that the point though lol
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Yep, like I said ugliest design I've ever seen, the person who created him achieved just that. No matter how many times i see xavier i always manage to wince.
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It became completely kid-ified. In an age where kids CAN handle stuff like Naruto, Jojo, Dragon Ball (whatever it is), and whatever else violent anime everyone obsesses over, just fine. How tragic...
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The weirdest thing about this one is that it looks like its normal self in other styles
So I'm left wondering why the NSMB U style looks like that.
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Tillie (the eponymous The Little Engine That Could character)... what have they done to you?! 
Granted, The Little Engine That Could was originally a children's book first published in 1930. Over the years and multiple reprints (and adaptions,) various illustrators have made their own takes on Tillie. The most iconic depiction of Tillie has her face placed on her distinctive smokestack, as in this book cover below.
Other iterations have her face on her smokebox, much like Thomas the Tank Engine and his ilk.
Then there's... this.
Not my cup of tea, but at least it's less horrifying than the CGI abomination.
I'm all for giving one's own spin on a character's classic appearance and experimenting with radical redesigns, but some designs are better left unused or tossed into the wastebasket... shudder.
Granted, The Little Engine That Could was originally a children's book first published in 1930. Over the years and multiple reprints (and adaptions,) various illustrators have made their own takes on Tillie. The most iconic depiction of Tillie has her face placed on her distinctive smokestack, as in this book cover below.
Other iterations have her face on her smokebox, much like Thomas the Tank Engine and his ilk.
Then there's... this.
Not my cup of tea, but at least it's less horrifying than the CGI abomination.
I'm all for giving one's own spin on a character's classic appearance and experimenting with radical redesigns, but some designs are better left unused or tossed into the wastebasket... shudder.
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That CGI effort is pretty weak.Tillie (the eponymous The Little Engine That Could character)... what have they done to you?!
Granted, The Little Engine That Could was originally a children's book first published in 1930. Over the years and multiple reprints (and adaptions,) various illustrators have made their own takes on Tillie. The most iconic version of Tillie has her face placed on her distinctive smokestack, as in this book cover below.
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Other iterations have her face on her smokebox, much like Thomas the Tank Engine and his ilk.
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Then there's... this.
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Not my cup of tea, but at least it's less horrifying than the CGI abomination.
I'm all for giving one's own spin on a character's classic appearance and experimenting with radical redesigns, but some designs are better left unused or tossed into the wastebasket... shudder.
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When I was a little kid, I enjoyed borrowing The Little Red Engine books by Diana Ross (not the singer) from the library.
It had lanterns as the eyes like the CGI version of Tillie but the lanterns were right at the front of the engine.
The first Little Red Engine book was published in England in 1940, so a decade after The Little Engine that Could but 6 years before the first Thomas the Tank Engine book (which was the second book in the series, the first one didn't contain Thomas, apparently).
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Dang, that's pretty cute! I'm such a sucker for this style of vintage illustrations, especially with limited colors!
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Weird you'd say this, because to me it comes off almost as alien as the CGI one. Not quite *as* bad, but definitely out there.
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Since joining the farms, I've become completely turned off to the calarts style.
It's just so lazy.
It's just so lazy.
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I'm glad you're noticing that!
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Putting the eyes that far apart just screams uncanny valley.
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For a sun he sure looks sleepy
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Anyone mention Dingo Pictures? The notorious German production company that infamously ripped off Disney?
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He looks like he's completely dead inside.
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I don't know what it's actually called, but some animes make characters legs insanely long. It just seems really off to me. All of the characters look like they're 8ft tall, and it causes the male characters to look too girlish.
example from: Code Geass Lelouch of the rebellion
example from: Code Geass Lelouch of the rebellion
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Character design was done by CLAMP, who aren't exactly masters of human anatomy.
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I'm guessing they didn't do the writing for that one. Most of the characters are pretty good, outside of Suzaku whom is a massive faggot from what I've seen so far.
Suzaku logic
Fuck, no one can beat Britannia
I should join them to try, and reform them from the inside
Oh fuck, I've literally been the decisive factor in every single fucking battle for them since I joined them
... No one can beat Britannia!
He's literally a character whom could meet all of his goals if he just sat around, and did nothing. Outside of this, he's a massive hypocrite. He always tries to say "ZERO ISN'T DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY, PEOPLE GET HURT," but his way has literally aided in multiple genocides, and he's literally guilty of patricide himself.
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