This article/ video talked about good pose design in the new game Overwatch, specifically the character in the game Tracer. This video talked about a controversy with a pose in Overwatch that some believed over sexualized the character, but it was mostly changed and taken down due to it being deemed "out of character". The video then talks about the basics and principle of good pose design. He brings up that it should be readable by just the silhouette, that it should have a good line of action, and that you should be able to tell what the character is feeling. The video then takes you through a series of tests seeing and demonstrating what the best of the poses being shown are and why. The video then explains that the old pose for Tracer was just visually boring and didn't fit her character at all, but instead just there for eye candy. He then also brings up the point that the most sexualized character in the game, Widowmaker, hasn't seen any controversy yet. Why? Because her poses and physique fit her character. Widowmaker is seen as the character who uses her looks to take advantage of others, while Tracer on the other hand is this fun loving character always looking for a new adventure. This justifies and shows why this works for Widowmaker and not for Tracer. The last point brought up is the new pose for Tracer, compared to the other one it is way better. It is a lot more visually interesting, it gives off emotion, and over just fits with her character. Whether you agree with this or don't, you just can't deny the better pose design.
This video/ article was really good. I thought overall this was very interesting to learn about, especially when it has to do with Overwatch. But this did have a lot of great points brought up and was really great to see why some poses work and others don't. I especially like when the video plays the little game with the poses as it taught you the principles in a fun and easy way. I agree with the pose getting replaced, the old one just was so boring, butt or no butt is was still boring. Since this video focuses on a game that I really like I didn't really didn't dislike anything about the video. The video was also very straight forward and I have no questions regarding it. Overall very good and interesting article.
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Weekly Comments #38
This week was pretty stressful to be honest. We are starting to get to the due date for the final project and I still have another day for shooting planned Monday, due to having to end early on the weekend shoots. I have the camp scene done and one of the big fight scenes done and now just have a couple more things to do for tomorrow. The practical effects in my video so far I think look pretty cool as well. But overall as long as I finish all of the shooting by tomorrow I should be able to finish on time. Also another big issue I have been having is time as mine is probably going to be longer then ten min. I honestly think that we should be able to have at least ten min. for the final project, but whatever. As the year comes to a close I am only really looking forward to graduation. This week, though stressful, was overall pretty good.
Here is the Link of the Week:
Here is the Link of the Week:
So many of you have probably seen this already, but I am posting it anyways. This is the new assassins creed movie that is coming out this fall starring Michael Fassbender. It follows a different story line then the games and honestly looks really cool. In all of Fassbender's roles so far I have not been disappointed by one yet, hopefully this isn't the first. He is staring to become one of my favorite actors and I really hope he is great in this movie. The only thing I really don't like about this trailer is the music, but it is just a trailer so it is not that big of a deal. Honestly if the Warcraft movie and the Assassins Creed movie suck this year then I think they should just stop trying to make video game movies because if they screw those up there is no going back. 2016 is either going to be the start of a new notable genre in movies or the death of one.
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