Dragon's Crown artist explains exaggerated art style
Dragon's Crown artist George Kamitani talks about his motivations behind the art direction, amid criticism for the way he portrays female characters.
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Dragon's Crown artist George Kamitani talks about his motivations behind the art direction, amid criticism for the way he portrays female characters.-
Japanese == Oh... I get it now.
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yeah yeah yeah! gime them big tity honkers!!! XL boyyyy damn gettin a lil 2 horned up if u feel me
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hope u get launched out of this website permanently Vitriol Man, uncalled for toxic response to my rebranding strategy. no sympathy for Trolls here.
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Love the art style. The exaggeration can get old but the amount of bitching over it is stupid.
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Kotaku is on a feminist streak right now. That being said, I'm kind of over the masculine/feminine super exaggeration that this style is parodying.
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People asking an artist to change his style or work is hilarious to me.
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/04/24 don't forget the news post
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why does that embarrass anyone? if your girl can't take corny Japanese sight gags about busty women then time to find another girl. (and to be fair if you actually have the hots for cartoons that's sad. I just find it silly but well within their artistic license to do whatever.)
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The boob physics linked to in the article are pretty great: http://abload.de/img/dragonscrowne1xo9.gif
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That video had me laughing. Love it!
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Her hair's blowing back too. That magic staff must have a serious shock wave every time it fires.
WIZAAAAAAAAAARD!! SORCERESSSSSSSSSSSS!!
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Can't you tell? Outside of the parody it's very much so them.
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yeah but it's embarrassing to play something like this with anyone else in the room. Which is why i'll skip this one, it's a bit too ridiculous.
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This reminds me of other Shackers at a recent Shackmeet telling me that they wouldn't be able to play Bayonetta because of their significant other having to see it. My reaction was, "Well, it's not that bad, but... uh... Oh." I hadn't really thought about it that way, because I was single when I played through it, and no one else was in the room to react negatively to it.
Now that I'm seeing someone, I decided to see what her reaction to Bayonetta was. It was just the booklet of the soundtrack, but it wasn't a negative reaction. That doesn't sound too bad. :-)
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They made a great response to some SJ journalist turd (I believe it was from Kotaku, who are pretty terrible in general) by posting a picture they felt would be 'more to his liking'. Three juiced up warriors massaging each other with oil. Aw yis.
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What I was trying to say, is that as a homo, I completely approve of their joke. I'm willing to bet the people who complained weren't actually gay.
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haha I saw that.
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Penny Arcade hit it out of the park with that one. That gigantic penis dragging on the ground sums up the perfect counterpoint better than words ever could.
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Naw he actually knows how to draw. The exaggeration you're seeing here is deliberate.
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The art style is too distinctive and weird to really trigger my 'gross sexism' gag reflex.
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I think it looks awesome and I love a good side-scrolling beat um up. The sad thing is that this would probably look even better and appeal to a lot more people if they just dialed it back a bit.
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If it follows suit, sprites like the previous games.
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They're hand-drawn sprites. It's a VanillaWare signature.
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I love how the discussion here hasn't COMPLETELY devolved into a ridiculous discussion about sexism in videogames. I personally don't have a problem with the art style, and I'm a happily married man and not afraid of being seen playing this game, especially not by my wife (she wrote me off as a man-child long ago anyway and is happy as long as she can play Just Dance 4). Everyone has the freedom to criticize the game if they wish, freedom of speech and all that, but the game has every right to exist under the same principle. I'll be buying the game day one, and I would buy it even without the jiggling breasts and the thunder-thighed barbarian. Anyone who has seen any of Vanillaware's past games and enjoyed them already know Mr. Kamitami's style and how consistent it is with their past works. Power to Mr. Kamitami for sticking to his guns and making a bold game that HE wanted to make, rather than what some critic at Kotaku thinks he should make.
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If that is a measure of sexism, Soul Calibur has gotten away with this. FIVE times.
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