Fire Emblem's new anime direction (RANT)

[MDMAlliance]

ToraTiger said:

MDMAlliance said:

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.  

You gave a very poor example for the head size thing, given that the picture of Tharja is from up close, but all the other pictures you referred to are from a distance.  Once again you are ignoring that a lot of the size of her head is from her hair.  By the way, it's better if you just said simplistic rather than not realistic.  I don't see how it's a big problem, it seems to me you're just more upset about how the art work isn't as meticulous as some of the past work.  Your definition of the facial expression being exaggerated is weak.  Just because that's how you normally see her doesn't mean that it's an exaggeration of her expression.  There are plenty of examples in anime that ACTUALLY show exaggeration (especially when they are angry or sad).  Seriously, if you wanted to make this argument, use a better picture.