Fire Emblem's new anime direction (RANT)

[ToraTiger]

MDMAlliance said:

ToraTiger said:

Notice Tharja's face.  Look at how large her head is, her overly amplified facially expression, the lack of realistic shading, her hair has the typcial anime shine effect, her eyes are big regradly of how she's snooping them.  No details in any of her clothing. 

 

I fail to see how what you said actually matches anything in the picture.  Her head isn't that large at all, just follow the lines along her face and you realize that a lot of the volume there is the hair itself.  There's nothing over-the-top with her facial expression.  There are a million better examples on showing that.  Realistic shading?  Define realistic shading, because I'm pretty sure that a lot of things do not fit under "realistic shading."  It's realistic enough to know all you need to know about the picture.  If the shading was completely unrealistic, everyone would be able to tell since our brains are very good at picking up on those things.  The other examples you have shown also have a good bit of that "hair shine" and the examples you gave the characters have much bigger eyes than Tharja.  And I do not see the lack in detail you are referring to in the clothing, unless you meant the style.  In that case, I have no idea how it contributes to your argument.

Unless all of what you said was a joke, you were pretty much wrong on all accounts.

Compare her head size to the size of the other pictures I posted.  Look at her arms, they have one solid shading color on them on one side.  That is simplitic and just lazy on the artists part, look at how on the other art they use a gradual progression of shades to make it look more real.   Her face is a bit exangerated, considering this is her  "default" face animation.  Her hair has a single streak across her hair in the middle, now compare that to Erika's hair,  where there is inconstant shading and lighting on her hair to show that it is in motion.  The artist of awakening was just plain lazy.