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The Last Stand said:
No minorities on our food. Just generic placeholders.

Especially when said designs HAD been retouched for a modern age.

That's what bugs me about some simplistic designs. They all blur together now. No originality, no cleverness, just simple text or stock imagery that leaves little room for imagination.


Lola Bunny from Looney Tunes.

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Not that I didn't like her Space Jam design, but what the hell? Complete 180 in character design too.
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Well I think it's mostly because the Loony Toons Show is a fully an animated sitcom for tv. While a comedy too I more importantly Space Jam is a spectacle movie with heavy emphasis on making the drawings look real. They designed the toons to be fairly 3D and more similar proportions to humas so that IRL actors could made to interact with them easier. TV show other hand wanted to do more expressive characters that look relaxed and funny. The movie and the show are in general just very different and so naturally this affect Lolas looks too. I think Lola looks fairly inline with her movie counterpart just in different art style that emphasizes different aspects in character design. Bugs looks also different in similar ways.
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Personality I will give you, she has quite different personality. I highly prefer the Loony Toons Show version but I also get if the change annoys others because two Lolas are very different. I found SJ Lola to be a boring character that was there just because at the time kids movies had to have a strong female role model. She wasn't the worst of that trend but honestly I would have preferred her not be there as I didn't find her funny or interesting. TLTS Lola other hand is a type of character I really enjoy. She is a kind hearted airhead who gets lost in her own faulty logic. She causes so many funny moments and character's humor is different from the other characters in the show. That's what I like to see in female comedy characters but I can see why SJ Lola fan would find her annoyingly different.
 
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Amber the Hedgehog said:
Well I think it's mostly because the Loony Toons Show is a fully an animated sitcom for tv. While a comedy too I more importantly Space Jam is a spectacle movie with heavy emphasis on making the drawings look real. They designed the toons to be fairly 3D and more similar proportions to humas so that IRL actors could made to interact with them easier. TV show other hand wanted to do more expressive characters that look relaxed and funny. The movie and the show are in general just very different and so naturally this affect Lolas looks too. I think Lola looks fairly inline with her movie counterpart just in different art style that emphasizes different aspects in character design. Bugs looks also different in similar ways.
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Personality I will give you, she has quite different personality. I highly prefer the Loony Toons Show version but I also get if the change annoys others because two Lolas are very different. I found SJ Lola to be a boring character that was there just because at the time kids movies had to have a strong female role model. She wasn't the worst of that trend but honestly I would have preferred her not be there as I didn't find her funny or interesting. TLTS Lola other hand is a type of character I really enjoy. She is a kind hearted airhead who gets lost in her own faulty logic. She causes so many funny moments and character's humor is different from the other characters in the show. That's what I like to see in female comedy characters but I can see why SJ Lola fan would find her annoyingly different.
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Yeah, but how are you supposed to jack off to that...?

 
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KonradCruise said:
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Which anime is this?
Michael Wade said:
My favorite fuckup is how professor plutonium is a black villain. Yeah Im sure that went over well.
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We don’t talk about that because it went against everything the original did and then some. At least the 2016 reboot kept some of the same designs and idk, not make the professor a villain?
 
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verygayFrogs said:
Which anime is this?

We don’t talk about that because it went against everything the original did and then some. At least the 2016 reboot kept some of the same designs and idk, not make the professor a villain?
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I wouldn't be surprised if they were accepting of everything else, but the professor being a bad guy black guy just broke their brains.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I'd say the middle is best. It still has some uniqueness in it compared to the very generic ones on the right. The left makes Zun's art look decent.
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The Last Stand said:
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Thanks for ruining a good film.
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Better off just animating it or doing a period piece; these kinds of films never translate well to new and modern franchises because they try so hard to change accordingly to current social cliches and interactions in order to be progressive that much of, if not all of the nuance is lost.
 
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Yukari Yakumo said:
You know, as a kid I never got why Joker had those Sans eyes black sclera with white pupils, it always put me off.
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I still have the BTAS art book from way back then, too. Part of the caption for Joker's redesign:

Garbing the Joker only in green and purple, Bruce narrowed his eyes to twin evil dots, giving him the likeness of of a grinning skull.
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More like giving him the likeness of an emaciated panda. But, it isn't meant to be white pupils and black sclera, but rather tiny white eyes in dark eye sockets.

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I actually like the Joker on the bottom. Still a psychopath in a comical way.
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That makes it sound like they tried to make him 'DCs Deadpool', years before they decided to foist that honor on Harley Quinn. Maybe even... before Marvel tried to make Deadpool 'Deadpool'?

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I still think it robs him of any menace he had. DCAU Joker 1.0 could be goofy too, but still had the features to turn from a clown to a murderous maniac at the flick of a switch. It really helped sell that unhinged, unpredictable personality.

Yeah yeah yeah Deathstroke is DCs Deadpool blah blah blah
 
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Decepticon Spy said:
The Statue of Saint George
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Reminds me of the “colorized” Roman statues, of which digital mock-ups were made after it was discovered that these statues were at one point painted, and not white like we usually envision them.
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Now, I can buy that they were colored at some point, but I absolutely refuse to believe that they looked as shit as the digital recreations that were made. These look like baby’s first Warhammer army before he learned about things like shading and color variation.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
Reminds me of the “colorized” Roman statues, of which digital mock-ups were made after it was discovered that these statues were at one point painted, and not white like we usually envision them.
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Now, I can buy that they were colored at some point, but I absolutely refuse to believe that they looked as shit as the digital recreations that were made. These look like baby’s first Warhammer army before he learned about things like shading and color variation.
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You would be surprised how strong colors well off people used use. I would guess that there were more shading going on but colors choices themselves might really have that bad. You do have to remember that lighting options were limited so colors didn't pop as much. Also these statues were made for the wealthy to show off their position and getting strong colors required money. Most old time dyes were made from plants so were pretty muted. To get strong bold colors you needed rarer ingredients that were expensive.
 
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Amber the Hedgehog said:
You would be surprised how strong colors well off people used use. I would guess that there were more shading going on but colors choices themselves might really have that bad. You do have to remember that lighting options were limited so colors didn't pop as much. Also these statues were made for the wealthy to show off their position and getting strong colors required money. Most old time dyes were made from plants so were pretty muted. To get strong bold colors you needed rarer ingredients that were expensive.
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My point is the issue isn’t the color choices necessarily, but the way the reconstruction is rendered. The colorized version is incredibly overexposed with barely any lights or shadows (compared to the pic of the actual statue which is dramatically lit), and we obviously have other art/murals from that period that showed they weren’t total shit at painting.
 
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