What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?


That Ariel chick be lookin' like that weird-as-hell thing from 2008's Horton Hears a Who

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speaking of, this thing from Horton Hears a Who. Like, I get vague, whimsical animal concepts but I honestly don't know what Katie's supposed to be. She eats bugs, has hooves, a frog-like tongue, sharp teeth and can float? Y'know, for kids!
 
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What makes it confusing is that the bodies and heads don't quite match up. The bodies are fairly decent, with somewhat functional looking hands, while the heads look like something an 8 year old might have drawn after spending thirty seconds looking at a reference image. It bears no resemblance to the stylized rules that usually govern anime faces. The body poses are also suspiciously static, which makes me think they might have been traced. And those eyes. A good rule of thumb is that if your character has a 270 degree range of vision, then the irises are too frickin far apart.
 
Is the person on the right supposed to be a woman or a troon?
It's supposed to be a woman as far as I know.

SYFY apparently has a late night animation block called TZGZ.

Syfy has ordered six 15-minute episodes of Magical Girl Friendship Squad to air in summer 2020. The project, a female-driven anime comedy ["anime"] about two young women who are destined to save the Universe…as soon as they figure out how to pay their rent, originated as an acquisition of six four-minute episodes, leading the pickup of six supersized new episodes.

 
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It's supposed to be a woman as far as I know.

SYFY apparently has a late night animation block called TZGZ.




When the west tried to do anime then, we got stuff like Avatar and Teen Titans. When they try to do it now, we get Tumblr shit like this.
 
When the west tried to do anime then, we got stuff like Avatar and Teen Titans. When they try to do it now, we get Tumblr shit like this.
Or if you want to go back to the 80s, they actually got their shit animated in Japan. That way, we got shows like Transformers G1 and the Real Ghostbusters looking like 80s anime half the time.
 
"Sausage Party" had some of the most viscerally unappealing and ugly looking character I've ever seen. Everybody had the Dreamworks face or an obnoxious, stretched out face that constantly looked like they were faking a smarmy smile while taking a massive shit.

The hotdog buns were the worst part, though. They all look like fucking menstrual pads. They're meant to look like vaginas but they have tits, because apparently you can't tell if it's a girl vagina unless it has boobs.
 

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Promotional art for an upcoming HBOMax show called The Prince (more info here) (archive)

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This is not gonna age well at all, and not just in an artistic way.
I would watch that cringefest if Prince Philip was the only character. Love his quotes and he would be a shitposter on the farms:
On Ethiopian art, 1965: “It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons
To Aboriginal leader William Brin, Queensland, 2002: “Do you still throw spears at each other?
To a British student in China, 1986: “If you stay here much longer, you’ll go home with slitty eyes.”
 
Starfire in the new Titans show is fucking awful. The actress is okay but the styling is hideous.

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The clothes are hideous, that hair color is hideous, and she only goes gold when using her powers and instead of making her look gold, it looks like she is colored in radioactive Tang. I feel like the costuming department hates this actor or something.
 
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"Omg, I love Sailor Moon! But why can't it like have more androgynous-looking characters in it? And with more diverse skin colors and body positivity!"

I honestly don't really care if a show or piece of media has a diverse cast in it. I just can't get behind them when it feels like that's the primary focus, while the story and such come secondary.
Also minor spergout nitpick with the designs: Those look like ballerina slippers with heels tacked on at a weird angle, which even for an animated show look ridiculous as fuck to be wearing.
 
Starfire in the new Titans show is fucking awful. The actress is okay but the styling is hideous.

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The clothes are hideous, that hair color is hideous, and she only goes gold when using her powers and instead of making her look gold, it looks like she is colored in radioactive Tang. I feel like the costuming department hates this actor or something.

This seems like another variation of the problem that Disney's White Witch from Narnia had - a deranged costume designer who wants to do "something new" with a character and winds up making them look ridiculous. Actually, this Starfire costume design is even worse. At least the White Witch's design had something of an ice-based theme, what with the bluish fur and icicles. Starfire's "purple corset and mottled fur" design doesn't scream "Fire-Based Superhero" as much as it does "Colorblind Chav Hooker."
 
Starfire in the new Titans show is fucking awful. The actress is okay but the styling is hideous.

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The clothes are hideous, that hair color is hideous, and she only goes gold when using her powers and instead of making her look gold, it looks like she is colored in radioactive Tang. I feel like the costuming department hates this actor or something.
the funniest part is how many random black chicks irl have hair and outfits that coincidentally look closer to Starfire than that
 
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