Professional Comic Book Artist FIXES HORRIBLE Concord Character Design Part 11: LARK
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- Опубліковано 9 лис 2024
- #Concord is #Sony's latest #DEI garbage, universally hated Live Service 5v5 Hero Shooter. CANCELED! Professional Comic book artist best known for his groundbreaking work on #injusticegodamongus and #injustice2 Mike S. Miller shares his analysis of the #characters and explains in detail what is wrong with the #designs and visual aspects from an #artistic and character design perspective. This episode, #LARK is given a glow up makeover to actually looks like a decent character that might fit better in #overwatch
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Honestly you could have given Toad from mario a gun amd it would have been an improvement
hahaha... true.
Short mushroom man means small hit box. Combined with mushroom- teleportation and homing spores ability must be helluva fun.
😂😂
@@BlacklistUniverse or one of those things in Last of Us, clickers I think?
@@pkk78104Like teemo from League lol
Main thing with the original is their idle pose. Like they are scared to be there.
The claw limbs just... I can't.
The fungus character look more cat like than the cat character.
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This character seems like a...
[puts on sunglasses]
Fun Guy.
Seriously, though, this is a cool design. It makes me wonder if this being even _needs_ tech weapons, or the spork necklace the original had.
I would say no.
Fun fact :fungus can have up to 3600 diferent Genders. so having a fungus humanoid is the Most inclusive move EVER! here u go!
i love when scify aliens are non animal, living computers, sentient gems, humanoid plant, colony of microorganism, living energy, -etc
Wait fungus has different genders... How does that even work?
I saw that when I looked it up before doing this video. I don't comprehend it at all. lol. welcome to the channel!
@@BlacklistUniverseoh by the way, great designs! As an artist in training these videos are incredibly useful
@@yeyo1019 so in genetic we call a gender a group of cromosome combination posible for ther specie, so humaNs have 2 diferent cromosomes and we can be 2 posible combination (xx or xy) but fungus have over 300 diferents cromosomes. and every specie have like 6 cromosomes each . so the amount tf difereNt combination is astronomical. ( this is a very simplified explanation- numbers are not exact)
Fun fact or... FUNgus fact? ehh? eeehhhh?
Very samus looking color palet, I like this redesign a lot !
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Yeah, this is probably the best redesign yet (not that I didn't enjoy the others) considering the original design was full of design elements that clashed with each other. I love how you played up their more fungal attributes. Turning the cap into a helmet mask really helps, plus giving them more alien looking like eyes by removing the pupil and iris while leaving the sclera really brings out the otherworldliness of the character and gives them a somewhat bestial look. And big props for using the scales some mushrooms have for accents and body armor. I would say you did de-mammal-ize the design through emphasizing their plant-ness and playing up their androgyn since fungi (and plants in general) are hermaphrodites. You also made them look far more intimidating than the original design not just through the otherworldliness and a predatory look. It's an intersting part of character design because adding more animalistic features to a character triggers our monkey brains to immediately fear or mistrust. Good example is Shan Yu from Mulan with his felinoid yellow eyes, black sclera, very angular face, mane-like hair, and all the furs he wears. He looks less human and more like an apex predator like a tiger or a lion.
Thank you, that was well thought out dissection of my video. :D hope you're subscribed!
@@BlacklistUniverse I subscribed a while back :D
It looks like they took more inspiration from Mortal Kombat's D'Vorah, who is based off a wasp, than fungi. The only thing going in that direction is its hat.
Imagine if Princess Peach Toadstool had an army of these guys fighting with her to protect Mushroom Kingdom😯 Mario would have a lot less to worry about! I'd love to see you do a complete rebuild of a mushroom warrior, Mike! Maybe add a cartoony, Afar-style build for casual Mario style games too?
The dress and the mushrooms on the original design made me think of cottage-core, which is basically cabin living as a cute, feminine aesthetic.
I have no idea how I would combine my idea with sci-fi technology. But that was the impression I got: “Cute mushroom girl.”
You did something way better.
Your design really takes advantage of the fungus motif to make it look like an alien!
Sc-fi cottage-core probably belongs to Solarpunk.
@md_vandenberg
I never heard of it until now. Interesting aesthetic.
Them having a guardians of the galaxy licence at one point, then reskining that game to concord sounds believable seeing how many characters look like reskined guardians of the galaxy characters.
And yes, your redesign looks better as it looks like a fungus person while the original looks like an alien lizard person with a mushroom hat, skulls on their shoulder and weird bulges in places. The only chance I'll make to your design is adding there weapon the original looks to have a big pistol or small shot gun so adding something like that so you know how it's supposed to fight would be good.
Compared to the original, THIS guy seems like a FUN GUY! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! I'll throw myself out, now.
*facepalm*
Saying that early cartoons had three fingers implies that you don't consider thumbs to be fingers.
Correct.
@@BlacklistUniverse does that mean that you make regular use of a different term - digits perhaps - to reference fingers and thumbs at the same time?
@@gowzahr thumbs are thumbs. fingers are fingers. simple
@@vlphvsigmv2338 but that would make Count Rugen the five-fingered man, and Inigo should have said, " do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have *five* fingers on your right hand?"
Getting an 80s sci-fi/fantasy vibe from this.
Edit: That's a good thing btw
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I'm about to use bro to make the meanest Pasta Alfredo ever.
A fungus character and they are using a regular shotgun instead of something organic and fungus like. SMH
Those are the coolest knees! I know it's a weird thing to notice, but I really love how those knees came out. The organic greaves, the the etched joints; that's just really appealing! I also like the use of Turkey Tail -style mushrooms. It gives the character a sturdier, healthier look! God bless!
Glad you like them!
Organic, complex assymetrical characters are fun to draw... once! Very nice re-design! So close to 10k. Go go Blacklist!
Thank you! Cheers!
They could have had so much fun with the mushroom design, I wish they went way farther with it like your redesign here.
Makes me think of Davey Jones's crew from Pirates 2/3, but mushrooms instead of coral.
Nice.
@@BlacklistUniverse it's where my mind went first too!
Frankly the worst thing they did with that character design is that they gave her basic bland looking clothes instead of organic carapace like you did, the clothes they gave her make her look like an alien hobo XD
Heck the carapace armor could be something the character grows out of their own body and could remove if they want, it could be even an ability where the character lose their armor but create a cloud of spores around them that blinds and poisons enemies, then they can regrow it back over time (interesting abilities!?, definitely not allowed in Concord),
I really love the colour combinations in the variations at the end! So cool
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I wouldn't mind a fungus alien looking horrific and strange. Fungi aren't all that pleasing to look at (imo) so why not go all out and make it look gruesome?
Honestly this might be your best work yet. It definitely gives Groot vibes, but as much as I love Groot, this design is way more intricate and unique than his. Incredible work. I could see this type of character having a special move where it shoots spores that slowly poisons the enemy once inhaled over the course of the battle.
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That character is wasted potential. Having these fungus type of uhm... skin? Body? That would be amazing character to be stealth in woodland environment. Imagine the camouflage potential for that character! Stealth mechanics, sink into that terrain or tree and hide in a plain sight. Yeah these Concord guys didn't even bother to create a game. That was just pure agenda without ideas.
When you're infected by a cordycep but stay concious and you like it ❤
Really cool redesign. The colors really worked.
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REALLY like the Redesign
The original character is a mixed bag of plants and fungi and it looks weird.
But it's actually a really fun idea! Imagine a character that is this big symbiotic relationship between plants, insects and fungi, the whole character is a living breathing ecosystem.
Its funny, when Concord came out, and I saw this character (don't remember their name, don't care either), I thought to myself "Man, this is an inferior version of Miko from Battleborn." Your design, however, aces.
I would have loved to see a less humanoid face, but overall this design is 16x better. Maybe the staff at Firewalk was on actual shrooms when designing their game
I think having a mushroom-based character as a main, playable character is a losing battle. Fine to have a character in the background or a side character who's mushroom based but I think in general, when people see fungus growing like on the side of a tree or on wood, most people will see it as gross or have a negative feeling towards it, and that is the same response people will give to a playable character who looks like realistic fungus.
The sheer amount of mushrooms entuziasts out there beg to differ. Yeah fungi are weird lil life forms, but that what makes them so coool
I really like this redesign (just like all the others) and it would be really nice to have a similarly alien/fungal weapon to really get the point across. Also I detest their use of color in the original and I thank you for making something pleasing to the eye instead lol
It looks really good but i wish it had more creature like body maybe longer neck or torso
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you know what? im glad you did Lark man because i was going to do a redesign of Lark with a more Tokusatsu monster lady design to it, and this kinda shows me that im not wrong with the angle i was going to go with her.
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@@BlacklistUniverse just did XDD kinda forgot for a sec
I love all the colours at the end, as always yours looks awesome :D
Thank you so much 😀
Wonder about the bow legs of the original design. Avid horse rider fungus? Excellent job with the re-design!
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Ooh I like this! Really nice palette, huge upgrade in every area
This is my favorite so far. This would be a great alternative to Swamp Thing or Poison Ivy.
The gap between how bad is the original design, and how good is your is enormous in this case.
I actually love the concept of mushroom man
Just needed some refining
It's not a horrible concept, just horrible execution. Hope you're subbed!
I think one of the mushroom names you're looking for is Chicken of the Woods? or Turkey Tails? Both are shelf fungi, and super yummy.
Loving the concept, keep em coming mike !
By your command!
An idea to justify giving fungus a gender: This character is a humanoid- actual human, or humanoid alien, make a choice- with the fungi (plural) GROWING ON HER BODY in a symbiotic relationship. The spikes can be justified as her sticking bony spikes into her body, to better nourish the fungi. The result should inspire HORROR in gamers- specifically, body horror, like what Ellen Ripley felt in the 'Alien' movies.
Anyways, I applaud the skills and effort you invested to make this character look distinctive, and thus, MEMORABLE. The game developers should've hired you, instead of the INCOMPETENT they hired to make the original character designs.
The basic shape and sketch of your design reminded me Mass Effect 2 and 3 Collector race 👍
Like with the red guy, it still feels too human to be believable.
I’d maybe put a couple of rags on it or something, cause like I understand it’s a mushroom but it just kinda feels naked. But besides that, it looks really solid 👌🏻
Fungus?! Just make it ork and be done with it! 😂
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@@BlacklistUniverse oops, not yet!
Glad you reminded me. Your vids just pop up everyday that I thought I subbed already ;;;
Hohoho! You are a fun guy! Got it? Fungi! Subscribed. Let's see what else you can do with the remaining characters.
Not every mushroom is a fungus, but EVERY mushroom is a Fun-Gi (guy) :P You're welcome. - This one is like Groot and Samus had a baby now :P Love it!
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Out of all 'female' characters, this is the one Concord's designers decided needed more feminine bust and actually shaped some resemblance of curves. Let's make guys fat and unappealing, girls as much androgenous as we can but a fungus one - well that's a lady to write home about. Just wow.
It's almost like they intended to fail. Hope you're subscribed!
Purely organic characters are always cool with natural exoskeletons and carapaces so I don't know why they had to give them (tacky) clothing. The redesign for some reason (The colours paired with the body armour) makes me think of Samus Aran if she was infected by some kind of Cordyceps metroid.
Nothing make sense in this game. Hope you're subscribed!
This is my favorite, I definitely would play with it!
This one is my favorite by far. I love it!
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Again, this redesign is a huge success, and the color palette is also well chosen. The only drawback, which isn't your fault, and, why concord is a huge disaster, I think a "mushroom" character is gross. I can only find myself uneasy as picking this character. Even Nintendo never went all the way with the idea but just kept is as a cap, not a full body.
eight years and no one to say that this character is one of the most horrible things ever created?
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I feel like going for a design that's more brown and has roots for feet and hands would of been more cooler. with perhaps spores floating around his design eminating from the fungi. on his body. and perhaps made his facial features a little less humanoid. still readable. but just more uncanny and less like a fungi robocop
After realizing they were ripping off Guardians of the Galaxy they switched from the tree like Groot to a fungus zombie from the Last of Us
I would have preferred a more monstrous form, like a slime or ball.
Never been this early, what a treat!
Lessgooo!!!
Can we just refer to it as it instead if they. Unless it's like a hive mind
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Loving the redesign. If Sony had hired you instead they would've saved $150 million.
I enjoy your videos! 😊❤
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Mushroom guy is cool, but my issue is his face is so uncanny looking
I think giving her a cape to represent the dress makes it more like yeah that's her but yeah that's my suggestion anyways still a better design than the og
The original looks like more of a chimeric approach. Like they had a couple of different characters in mind, and instead of making like 5 characters, they just took the elements they liked out of each and threw them together... Needless to say the character types weren't nearly as compatible as someone thought they were lol.
I have noticed that half of these characters have boring poses like they wait for the bus.
As for Lark og design, I they want to give to much alien to give multiple things like mushrooms, claws and beast like legs. and it just ends up like one big fat clusterfuck. new design just take only the fungi concept and make a humanoid alien out of it, easy yet effective.
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do you make workshops? i would love to improve my art I have a hard time with colouring and that tint tone hue xD
No, not yet anyway!
10/10 redesign 👍
I like the original head, but the body is a mess
Not to offend cause it looks great. but your mushroom lady take looks like a villain of the day from sailor moon in the 1980s
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I bought the lomestar 3 pack bundle last Wednesday. When can I expect to get it?
I know it's a pre order so it can take some time, but just an estimate.
They should be fulfilling by end of year. Hopefully you have a nice christmas present. :)
And thank you!
It shouldn’t have clothes
It’s fungus
This is a hard one
Go on?
Odd question, but I was working on a little fan comic for it, but would you consider doing something like Mega Man or Mega Man X in the style of a western superhero comic? I think you'd have a pretty interesting take on their designs. That or you could redraw the western box art. Either way, that would be really cool.
I may do some anime-to-western videos down the road!
@@BlacklistUniverse awesome!
@@BlacklistUniverse oh, side note: I highly recommend checking out the Archie Comics Mega Man run. It didn't last all that long, but the art is pretty cute, and Patrick Spaziante does a great job on covers.
This game was so epic so actual female character no breast a fungus character with breast I guess that's why it was so much fun to play😂
Love it, it's WAAAY better, but shouldn't the character be carying gear and stuff to use a weapon in combat ?
Gear can always be added.
Im bot sure if its female the characters voice is very male
Yeah, right? They gave it a male voice, but boobs and a dress... whut?
There’s no reason to have a they/them character in anything.
It works. 'it'. works in real life, too. lol.
Yours is way better. The original is repulsive... the colours, the face, the hat, the protrusions... but particularly the hips/thighs. There's someting about the pevic region that just looks diseased. Yours has such a better stance. It looks health,y not ill. I like your red/yellow colour scheme.
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I think calling her a she is fine since her design is very feminine, and I don't think she'd have enough of a concept of gender to care. Like with a slimegirl: she's still a she even if she's not technically got anything resembling a human gender.
In this case, it's fine for a sentient mushroom to choose its gender. lol. Hope you're subscribed!
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@@BlacklistUniverse I have indeed! I also love your work in the Hedge Knight comics, and shadow of the conqueror
This is supposed to be their "groot"... But just ended up looking super weird, in a bad way.
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