🎮🥊Reverse 1999 Characters PERPLEX a Character Design Teacher 🥊🎨

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  • @ReanAntarctic
    @ReanAntarctic 5 місяців тому +334

    Simplicity and subtlety is the game's charm so it's understandable that they're not as flashy as any gacha characters.

    • @nightowlowo149
      @nightowlowo149 5 місяців тому +54

      Almost every gacha game character: Cue 100 belts, a lot of accessories with some not making any sense, a collar for some reason, boob windows, and kinky stuff.

    • @adalEun
      @adalEun 5 місяців тому +3

      @@nightowlowo149extra points if its a furry 😂

    • @ethanvol7440
      @ethanvol7440 5 місяців тому +2

      @@nightowlowo149 and the unnecessary masses too

    • @kiiroi.o
      @kiiroi.o 5 місяців тому +9

      @@nightowlowo149 and every girl has a boob window for some reason

    • @nightowlowo149
      @nightowlowo149 5 місяців тому +1

      @@kiiroi.o I'm pretty sure manboob windows are a popular thing too, I'll add that

  • @cosmiicconcepts
    @cosmiicconcepts 5 місяців тому +276

    the sprites are usually in a passive stance, they move when you chose a “card” or an action and they get more dynamic

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +76

      That's fair! I saw they have alternate poses for their art, I still wish all their poses had clear contrast/silhouette design but I am SO glad they have the options!

  • @stellarlight1387
    @stellarlight1387 5 місяців тому +160

    It's actually important for Medicine Pocket's hair to have the white, brown and black as it's based off beagle dogs

  • @ShanaMaillard
    @ShanaMaillard 2 місяці тому +16

    I love rev1999 for the fact they dont follow the same design rules as other gacha games or even anime-adjecent media as a whole. The clothes are easier to figure out since a lot of it is based on practical and even historical clothing so you have less of a headache drawing and cosplaying them with secondhand clothes

  • @tasogarerubica
    @tasogarerubica 5 місяців тому +78

    Pokemon Fans: Not another pokemon based off of objects
    Reverse 1999 Fans:
    APPLe!!!!

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +12

      LMAO we love Mr. APPLe!! If there was a pokemon that was JUST an object, not animal-ified at all, I'd love it too

  • @qiuqiu1
    @qiuqiu1 5 місяців тому +64

    medpoc fan here hiii
    medicine pocket is a cross between a researcher/mad scientist and doctor you got that part spot on!
    they’re actually based off some experiments done in the 1990s where the university of utah would take beagles from shelters to use to for animal extermination
    they usually only experiment on themselves and their hair is is beagle colored which is because they’re represent the dogs/beagles themselves (seeing how they bite things and other dog stuff)
    their leveled up outfit has the brown/yellow underside of the coat turns purple which makes their color palette that of the intersex flag which could just be a coincidence but kinda cool
    (i actually used to think medicine pocket looked really ugly before the emotional attachment kicked in so your insight definitely helped on why they looked so off😭😭)

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +11

      I REALLY wanna like their design so I think I'm in the same boat as you 😭 That's definitely the kind of concept and backstory to get attached to I don't blame ya

  • @stellarlight1387
    @stellarlight1387 5 місяців тому +108

    I'm Reverse 1999's strongest soldier so I swear to god if the score on Tooth Fairy truly is 6.5, I am going to cry

    • @karvenman
      @karvenman 3 місяці тому +1

      Day 1 player? What level is your account? I'm not a day 1 player but I played pretty soon after release. Also how many characters do you have max leveled and who are they?

    • @gearhead-quarters30
      @gearhead-quarters30 2 місяці тому +4

      @@karvenman lol quite the interrogation.

  • @bunnywifalaptop3684
    @bunnywifalaptop3684 5 місяців тому +88

    I hope you do An-An Lee or Eternity, They are my favourite designs personally and An-An's I think has a really strong concept

    • @dragonflyeater00
      @dragonflyeater00 5 місяців тому +7

      Agreed, An An has one of my favourite designs in all of media

    • @bunnywifalaptop3684
      @bunnywifalaptop3684 5 місяців тому +14

      @@dragonflyeater00 Yeah, I'm actually kind of sad the 3d glasses go away in her insight too because they're just so silly and actually gives her so much character

    • @dragonflyeater00
      @dragonflyeater00 5 місяців тому +5

      @@bunnywifalaptop3684 YESS THATS MY FAVOURITE PART OF THE DESIGN 😭😭😭😭

  • @imliterallyspidermanwdym
    @imliterallyspidermanwdym 5 місяців тому +30

    the comment on the skins upset me. :( ur paying for the work of the people who made the new art, the animations, voice lines, live 2d and battle sprite of the new skin. its like saying digital art commissions arent worth it yk? bluepoch isnt like hoyoverse or whoever made league. its a small company and reverse is their first game

    • @etienne8110
      @etienne8110 3 місяці тому +10

      And those skins are decently priced. 10-15bucks.
      Some gacha games like Nikke are selling skins for 60bucks...
      That s also the way the company earns a living. That s one of the main sale they have on an otherwise free games. (And pulls of course, but you can manage pulls entirely f2p)

    • @imliterallyspidermanwdym
      @imliterallyspidermanwdym 3 місяці тому

      @@etienne8110 Yeah! Like the new Regulus skin. They redid EVERYTHING and it’s only 20 bucks. (Technically 40, but if you buy clear drops with the double it’s 20 and its on sale right now.)That’s the price of a genshin skin with nothing changed but the outfit. And most skins are only 6-7 bucks? It’s so cheap thats the price of two coffees.

  • @benzylgroup7076
    @benzylgroup7076 5 місяців тому +37

    For Balloon Party, I quite like the indistinction for her face! Especially with her voice which is quite flat in tone, I feel like there's supposed to be less focus on the personhood and more on the party aspect. It's what she brings with her, if that makes sense. It kind of ties in with her second story where the opening line is:
    A strange woman had come to the town. She was wearing a strange costume and talking about strange things, but all the children had gathered by her side.
    As for her profession, she is asked if she is a doctor and claims "Yes, and no. Oh... Madam... Ms. ... Um, my "mouth friend"! In terms of title, I prefer "Party Animal" or "Party Maniac"! I'm happy when everyone's happy. That's right!" All in all, I highly doubt she has any medical training. In her second story, she cured a boy's broken leg overnight ("From the nurses' chitchat, I learned that Tommy's broken leg was cured overnight; the plaster on his leg appeared in the garbage station outside the town, mixed with balloon pieces"). There is another "doctor" called Kakania and she claims to be a psychiatrist, but that is only because of her arcane skills & knowledge of psychoanalysis and it was confirmed that she does not have a medical license

    • @keikou_vg7864
      @keikou_vg7864 5 місяців тому +13

      I agree. Balloon party is less of a 'doctor' and more a 'local healer'. She's basically a nehlected child going around punishing other adults who abuse/neglect their children

  • @CobaltSTARZZ
    @CobaltSTARZZ 5 місяців тому +99

    AHH Reverse 1999 content! Reverse 1999's art style, story, and overall the general vibe really attracted me towards the game and I'm glad to see other artists standpoints on their character designs! You're critiques and rubric really gave me great insight on what I'm slacking on my own characters, and honestly will probably be using it to gauge my own art :D.
    As for the possibility of AI, tbh I'm not too sure. So much of the art and design work seems to be carefully crafted, so I'm leaning on the side of disagreeing there's AI involvement (though there may be my personal enjoyment of the story and game giving me bias). Not too familiar on how professionally creating artwork for games like these work, but for some parts I've always just considered they may have digitally just painted over some of the things and due to not being a considered focal point of the design, maybe just never bother to fix it? Personal touch? Though that may be too generous of an assumption?
    Although, I think that kind of falls flat seeing how Balloon Party's design's vagueness alongside the random tidbits really just make the design a bit flawed. Miss the days when AI art wasn't something we'd regularly have to look out for

    • @мсножницы1
      @мсножницы1 5 місяців тому +21

      About ai. There's isn't ai in reverse 1999 at all, atleast its not proven

    • @cardcaptorkiwi2019
      @cardcaptorkiwi2019 5 місяців тому +2

      ballon party is so weird, her i2 does feel like an actual drawing though, so it just makes me wonder if it was just clumsy elements blending together or if it was some early ai work since assumably production for the first couple characters happened around 2020-2021 before the huge ai boom.

  • @baeleth6469
    @baeleth6469 5 місяців тому +20

    Lil funfact, the star thingy on Regulus' design is supposed to represent the star Regulus, which is where her name comes from since it's part of the Leo constellation and she was born in August (August 15th actually, her birthday's soon!)

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +3

      OH.
      How in the WORLD did I not think of that, thank you hahahaha

  • @MyLittelProblem
    @MyLittelProblem 5 місяців тому +22

    So about Fragrances - all character profiles in game presented as in-universe magazine articles and some of their pages are scented, like some perfume ads.
    And a thing about contrast - game itself is mostly dark, more often than not you will see M.Pocket and other white-on-white characters on black/brown/bordo screen and it reads completely different, then on white page.

  • @CicakKadal-h7g
    @CicakKadal-h7g 5 місяців тому +20

    So balloon party is basically someone who go to children's parties, heal the sick ones, and kill the abusive parents.
    I'm thinking about instead of gothic outfit, she could've wear something that is a mix between sweet and scary. Black and pink dress. The silhouette of the dress could be exactly like the original but instead of black and white, it's black and dark pink like her balloon color. Her dress would have random candies in random places just like her hair to show her party side. Maybe add some blood-like designs. Her hat should be a birthday party hat but make it stylish and again, both sweet and scary.

  • @obnoxiousavian
    @obnoxiousavian 5 місяців тому +29

    During Regulus’s crit someone asked about character design books. The Silver Way by Stephen Silver was actually one of my textbooks for a class! It focuses a lot on character design for cartooning/Western Animation but everything he says can be adapted to other styles & mediums. Stephen Silver was the lead character designer on a lot of American shows like Kim Possible and Danny Phantom.

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +4

      Ooo that's a good one! I've read it too, most of my book recommendations on the subject are too graphic novel focused to have felt useful here but I second this suggestion

  • @MrWizardjr9
    @MrWizardjr9 5 місяців тому +15

    Apple is also a reference to Isaac Newton. Regulus is a radio pirate. It was a thing back in the day where people broadcasts music without having the license to it. She also might have a connection to Nicholas flamel and the philosopher's stone.

    • @etienne8110
      @etienne8110 3 місяці тому +3

      If she didn t get that apple is all about Newton , there s an issue.
      Even his attacks are light prisms and gravitational law. 😅

  • @re-ve-rie3810
    @re-ve-rie3810 5 місяців тому +19

    An-an Lee will likely score 10/10 on this chart. Hope to see her in the next video. You made some really good points, I finally understood why Medpoc's design bothered me

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +6

      An-an is 100% in the next one (:

  • @aerissai8341
    @aerissai8341 5 місяців тому +47

    I will definitely check up on the channel for more videos like this. Your design teaching talents, critiques and adjustments were showcased in a very easy-to-understand manner.
    Your review on Balloon Party I agreed completely on, since her first design was very much needing the changes from her upgraded design & splash art (e.g. Eye colour change and size increase/clarity of her bows and pins).

    • @aerissai8341
      @aerissai8341 5 місяців тому +2

      From what I saw in chat, Isolde and Kakania from the current update (1.7) and Vertin herself were definitely the most anticipated for next time.
      (doesn't have to be next week, hope you're able to stay sane in 2024 and don't feel any form of "schedule, deadline, rush" while producing content you're familiar with and enjoy)
      I was entertained and felt the knowledge flowing through my mind. Distinguishing pointers that we should always keep in mind when designing character portraits.

  • @cordialkiana
    @cordialkiana 3 місяці тому +2

    Sonetto's eyes are canonically green, surprised you could tell that they were green with just the art alone since many say they look gray. I also wish they made the green more obvious because not all of us, or at least non-artists could differentiate colors that well.

  • @dreamybat
    @dreamybat 5 місяців тому +22

    I think it would be fitting if you wanna make part 2 to include Ezra our local mushroom boy, just a suggestion. 🍄

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +8

      He was highly requested (and you're right, topical for me lol) so he'll prolly be in the next one!

  • @cherrickdinn
    @cherrickdinn 3 місяці тому +4

    I don't know if it would be considered good or bad character design, but wouldn't Melania not want her focus to be on her face if she's a thief?

  • @ghostii3402
    @ghostii3402 5 місяців тому +16

    Wanted to say that in the game Sonetto's battle sprite is correct and the skirt doesn't overlap with the laces!
    Watching this VOD made me check since I thought I would have noticed something like that, and it looks like the chibi on the wiki (which matched the one you used so I assume you got it from there) has the entire torso rotated? Her neck was also affected in a really noticeable way and the collar area also makes a lot more sense in the in-game sprite

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +6

      Oh! I'm relieved to know that the battle sprite on the wiki is just wrong, yea that's where I got it from. Whew alright

  • @ShadowHeartForever
    @ShadowHeartForever 5 місяців тому +12

    I like the concept of what you are doing; I just wish it was a tad more condensed.
    Trying to sift through the conversations with Twitch chat on a 5hrs long video is a bit difficult.

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +8

      I'm making edited down versions of all these streams! If you don't mind waiting a bit longer to watch there will be a much more condensed version out in the future!

    • @ShadowHeartForever
      @ShadowHeartForever 5 місяців тому +3

      @@Squiiji3D Thanks for letting me know about that, appreciate it.

  • @Mystra
    @Mystra 4 місяці тому +3

    I believe Reverse 1999 also has multiple artists (real ones). So I'm thinking that's why Arcane is a character, more like modern anime in design choice, where as Schneider looks anime-esque but definitely more similar to 2.0 pixel style like in Octopath Traveler. And I mean their full concept art in cutscenes, if anyone wondering. Not the gameplay artwork.
    Art can also be very different depending on one's mind. Not just limited to art either, for example H.P.Lovecraft. if he released the books today, people would (imo) say he used AI to create it, because, surely no one can be that strange and creative. That is very unfortunate.
    I am not saying you are wrong or not, not that you are accusing either, just trying to help with some context of why things could be abit off depending on someon's pov ❤

  • @IiIygarden
    @IiIygarden 5 місяців тому +4

    by the way, about the apple alt skin, i don't think it's a double bow tie + normal tie, but rather, the black one hanging is supposed to be his outer coat (notice how he also has a black collar under the white collar)... like how the default design has a white one hanging that's supposed to be his suit.

  • @a.i8129
    @a.i8129 5 місяців тому +8

    The animal based characters are the most interesting ones of all.
    Even in the 1.8 update, we will be getting Another animal based character.

  • @june866
    @june866 5 місяців тому +4

    Also the insight 2 skins are sometimes the older version of themselves not for all characters but a lot of them the insight 2 skins are their old self and then the default skin is their current

  • @doracosta1760
    @doracosta1760 5 місяців тому +6

    Well, now i gotta play reverse 1999
    There's just something about that... APPLe..

  • @tsatsishche
    @tsatsishche 5 місяців тому +23

    APPLe is just too powerful 💪🍎

  • @Shincleic
    @Shincleic 5 місяців тому +9

    off topic from the video, but your model being bald is lowkey kinda serving

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +2

      THANK YOU I 100% agree!!!

  • @zomfgroflmao1337
    @zomfgroflmao1337 5 місяців тому +3

    If there ever is a second version of this, here are some designs I think would be very interesting to critique:
    Tennant, Shamane, Ezra (mushroom enthusiast), Diggers, TTT
    Those are some of the characters that would be interesting to critique as they are very much Reverse 1999.
    I would recommend Prydwen for the Reverse 1999 characters and skins.

  • @etienne8110
    @etienne8110 3 місяці тому +2

    APPLe is a Newton incarnation-like.
    So if we re adding accessories to him, i think it should be something in that way.
    Either a wig like the haircuts back then or a prism or prismaticlight patterns on his clothes.
    Or a small moon/planet gravitating around him.
    All his moves also involve either light prisms or gravitation during fights.

  • @enilicht
    @enilicht 5 місяців тому +4

    Oof that medicine pocket grade😭😭😭

  • @imliterallyspidermanwdym
    @imliterallyspidermanwdym 5 місяців тому +3

    melania with red glasses wouldnt make sense lore wise. red glasses stand out. if she neds to be identified it’s easy to remember her red glasses but black glasses are easily forgettable. red tights work because they’re not unusual for the time period and nobodys looking at her legs. also her name is muh-lah-nee-uh not muh-lay-nee-uh

  • @AsterWi
    @AsterWi 5 місяців тому +2

    i woke up and managed to stop in for a minute during APPle’s critique, but it was 4am for me so i went back to sleep. this gonna be a good watch :D

    • @AsterWi
      @AsterWi 5 місяців тому +7

      Man ai image sucks, it causes so much distrust in art >:(
      I wish i could go back to the days i just look at an artwork and go “woah” without any thoughts in the back of my mind

    • @AsterWi
      @AsterWi 5 місяців тому +5

      haha the talk about apple’s bow neck tie reminds me of a character i made in city of heroes, i put both a bow tie and neck tie on her, very fashionable (she was a not very sane rat)

  • @fierygallades6122
    @fierygallades6122 5 місяців тому +10

    Well, if you'd be interested in doing this for another gacha game, I'd love to see one of these for Limbus Company. There'd be a lot of stuff to do there since they have like 100+ playable units + like 50 ultimate abilities with unique art for each one. Not to mention the many NPCs and monsters.
    Seeing how long these streams take, maybe focusing on the 12 main characters(Sinners) in their base forms would be wise.
    I'd personally love to see you talk about them, because unlike most gacha characters, they all mostly wear the same uniform. So, I'd love to see how much about their personalities you can gleam from the way they wear that same uniform.

    • @Unbelievablyunfunny
      @Unbelievablyunfunny 4 місяці тому

      Actually, there's 100+ *alternate versions* of the base 12 sinners

  • @IiIygarden
    @IiIygarden 5 місяців тому +1

    hello i'm new to this channel and i really enjoyed this video ! i really hope characters like jiu niiangzi, getian, isolde, kakania, and shamane, kaala bauna will be included in the next video

  • @kleeio
    @kleeio 5 місяців тому +1

    HOLY SHET your model is so unbelievably beautiful ❤

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +1

      Thank you!! 🧡

  • @hosannanoctifer
    @hosannanoctifer 5 місяців тому +1

    melania's belt could have been described as a pendant because of the charm, and maybe someone misread that as necklace because those are similar concepts?

  • @Miiyawaa
    @Miiyawaa 5 місяців тому +4

    You should do Schneider or An An Lee next!!

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому +2

      They'll both be in the next one!

  • @amycaslol95
    @amycaslol95 5 місяців тому +4

    i hope to see their opinion on characters such as
    druvis III
    eternity
    an an lee
    shamane
    kaalaa baunaa
    marcus
    OH AND ARGUS
    argus 😍
    AND TENNANT OUR BELOVED CANNON GIRLKISSER ‼️‼️ (look at her insight 2 art)
    also you should check both insight 1 and 2 models because they have diferences in outfit

  • @nightowlowo149
    @nightowlowo149 5 місяців тому +10

    Disliked the video, all characters are perfect /s
    Okay bias aside, despite how upset i am, your ratings make sense with the detailed explpanation. But its amazing to see someone analyze these characters because its one of the games strongest characteristics

  • @ronessajohnson-abbott1668
    @ronessajohnson-abbott1668 5 місяців тому +2

    Mr APPLe is too powerful for the rubric 😂

  • @catbread817
    @catbread817 4 місяці тому +2

    Can you do a review of wuthering waves and arknights designs? I would love to see what you think

  • @AkaGavv44
    @AkaGavv44 Місяць тому

    Should also see skin garment insight 2 for each character

  • @Bread_Is_Cool_
    @Bread_Is_Cool_ 5 місяців тому +2

    OMG YOUR MODEL IS SO CUTE :O

  • @hosannanoctifer
    @hosannanoctifer 5 місяців тому

    thousands on genshin??? i dropped like 50 a couple times for birthdays but like ... wow

  • @hosannanoctifer
    @hosannanoctifer 5 місяців тому

    manzana i get the expensive dresses thing ... i have two angelic pretty dresses that don't fit me anymore and true, second-hand, only a couple hundred for the both, but having £300 dresses in my closet ... sits wrong.

    • @hosannanoctifer
      @hosannanoctifer 5 місяців тому

      that's not even counting the thousands in cosplay. i need to start sewing my stuff fast so i can waste money on fabric instead.

  • @MerlinCross13
    @MerlinCross13 5 місяців тому

    5 HOURS of this......
    Fuck I'll be back with chips.

  • @june866
    @june866 5 місяців тому

    Will u ever review hazbins hotel character designs?

  • @fella9662
    @fella9662 5 місяців тому +1

    You should check out pioneer!

  • @weirdfoureyes413
    @weirdfoureyes413 5 місяців тому

    Can you do an art review of Arknights?

    • @Squiiji3D
      @Squiiji3D  5 місяців тому

      I've gotten a couple of requests for it, I'll toss it into the mix for fellas to vote on (:

  • @BaroqueOakStudio
    @BaroqueOakStudio 5 місяців тому

    Curious game. It had my attention at "characters from different eras", but lost me at creepy character design 💀 Happy that other people enjoy it, tho! ✨💗
    Glad you like my 'everything's wrong' design

  • @hosannanoctifer
    @hosannanoctifer 5 місяців тому +1

    melania's belt could have been described as a pendant because of the charm, and maybe someone misread that as necklace because those are similar concepts?

    • @hosannanoctifer
      @hosannanoctifer 5 місяців тому

      melania's tights/ boots situation could be skating tights (they go over the boot but have openings for the blades)