Professional Comic Book Artist FIXES HORRIBLE Concord Character Design Part 15: TEO
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 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, #TEO is given a glow up makeover to actually looks like a decent character that might fit better in #overwatch
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The og design looks like they asked someone to make a uniform for a movie about American football with guns, then stripped some of the armor off to save on the cost of costume.
Accurate
Finally someone else noticed that the character looked like a football player. I thought I was going crazy being the only one to notice it. 😂
Since I'm not from the USA, this character reminds me about the "space marines?" that appeared on movies like terminator and alien + it gave me that vibe, but, it's incomplete.
@@marcoaureliofernandezreyes1413 you're not wrong. It's a way used in various movies to make "heavy armor" without really designing it. It's bulky and feels like armor without needing detailed design work.
@@marcoaureliofernandezreyes1413 he looks like a cannon fodder in a space movie, a guy that goes running to the battlefield and gets obliterated by a laser 😂
Teo went from a goon-type vanilla NPC to a grizzled, heroic space veteran. Nice!
still a goon though. haha
I love to call him "John Concord" or "Johncord" because he's just a generic guy with nothing unique
'Token White Guy' works for me, since he's the only one out of 16 characters (with three oriental women? why? Are we targeting China?)
BlacklistUniverse because the leads character designer was revealed to be a woke activist with the kind of tweets about white people you would expect.
Having the armor on one side does make for some storytelling ideas. The idea that he is a minimalist. That everything he does, he does the exact amount required and no more... Including his armor.
Or that he used to be in some white knight unit, grew disillusioned, was kicked out, or found out they were corrupt and went his own way... But still uses some of the armor because it gets the job done... just enough :p
Love it. Ideas percolate!
The tron version is the best of versions. Though Something else I have noticed with all the male characters in your redesign is you actually made them actually masculine. Where in the original designs, outside of Star Child these guys weren’t masculine looking at all. This Teo for example actually looks like a serious no nonsense ex soldier who can kick some serious ass.
And there were barely any male characters to play on top of it!
Leaning a little more into the cyborg part was the right call since he really didn't look like anything. All of concord's designs are either too thematically busy (too many concepts mushed together) or just plain ugly to look at. Keep it simple: Cyborg with a gun. Then add details to that basic idea.
Correct. 'Just glowing eye' thing is pretty pointless.
Probably simpler to just give the quick tint/tone/hue explanation each time rather than feeling the need to mix it up. There's always new folks, and it can be a meme for existing viewers - works both ways
Starting to be mostly return viewers. Concord has reached near maximum for content. lol.
I dig the ear antenna. Remind me a lot of the 80s and 90s robots, much like those of megaman. I would’ve leaned more heavily into that aesthetic. Looks good overall though! Love seeing your work!
Appreciate it!
His eye reminds me of Kano.
That Mortal Kombat?
@@BlacklistUniverse Yes.
og looks like a npc other games give you from time to time to try sell the illusion that you're not the only person fighting but if you actually pay attention to them, you quickly realize they aren't really doing anything.
Yep. Ridiculous.
Been watching these redesigns and loving them, though I agree this one felt a little lackluster. Imo, (and as a writer, not an artist) I think you felt too committed to the original design to really give it that oomph it needed to be great. I mean, that is the cost of trying to stay close to the original. The only other direction you could take it would be to lean into the football gear and make a madmax/post apocalyptic gunner, but then you are diverging from the overall aesthetic.
As for the subscription aspect, I can understand the frustration, as each subscription really does help. From the other side of it, every youtube creator asks for subscriptions, and too many subscriptions can really clog a feed. Plus, from my personal end of things, I don't know how long this artistic dalliance of mine will last. I would very much like to learn and make art of my own, but life has a funny way of subverting our plans.
All in all though, I am glad I found your channel, and I really do hope God blesses it with more success ^_^
Thank you, and God bless you too. I understand the sub thing, I want people to be a part of this channel and the discord, become part of a community.
@@BlacklistUniverse On that note, does your discord/community include tips or resources for beginners to learn? I am trying to get the hang of Krita, but frankly I find the task daunting.
Yeah, lots of artists have been coming in and sharing tips and tricks. And I'm usually in there a few times a day, so I can field questions.
@@BlacklistUniverse awesome, than I may just check that out! :)
I like the brown and green outfit, the stark white makes a soldier the Walking Target. Try powder burns, shrapnel holes, enemy skin/hair pieces, scuff up the gloves also. We didn't use gloves in the 1960s-1970s but the hands get seared from hot brass or changing out the hot bent barrels of the M-60s with a lot of lacerations taken to he back of the hand and knuckles.
Yeah, the white is dumb.
@@BlacklistUniverse 😆
From what I heard Teo was a young man from a poor mining colony looking for adventure amongst the stars. And absolutely, Tron Teo is my favorite too! God bless, Mike!
God bless, Amy!
A little bald for my taste but it is way cooler than original. Hehe.
Fair enough!
@@BlacklistUniverse one thign you could do instead of individual characters is just spend a few minutes talking about ideas to fix, and not do a redesign?
You mean no drawing?
@@BlacklistUniverse Maybe?I figure that'd be quicker than what you've been doing.
Well I do agree this one might be the least interesting to redesign since Teo's the standard shooter char, but it's still better than the og. Also I'm not sure what to suggest after ur last redesign vid for Concord.....
Part of me wants to see u tackling manga chars in western comicbook version or a what if scenario where u design chars for a competitive multiplayer like mobas or hero shooters
that's actually a good idea. I'm writing that down.
First? I don't see anyone.
It's members only! It'll go live for everyone else at 6:30
Getting that studio to do a straight white male must have been like pulling teeth lol great work dude !
Lol, they probably didn't have any there to model from.
The studio proudly proclaimed that they have 0 white straight males in this game. Teo is more of a latino even if that isn't immediately visible
Facepalm
yes the bar was low, but it is a vast improvement. just removing that stupid shoulder pillow and the stupid look on his face was a huge improvement. The military green one really helps to.
Thank you!
ummmmm. I am not sure I liked the Antennae. However I liked the fact this new version didn't look like he had half assed tried to cosplay for a game of Laser Quest down at the mall.
lol!
The moment I noticed Theo having a cybernetic eye, I instantly thought about Kano from Mortal Kombat. You sir, have made my imagination a reality 😂🤣
haha. you're welcome?
@@BlacklistUniverse Would be much funnier if this new Theo was also Australian 😂🤣
I mean... he started off looking like a snot-nosed paintball kid. I'd say it still turned out several times better.
haha. low bar.
haha I specifically clicked on this one b/c I saw those absolutely unexciting football pads! What's the deal with fantasy these days? They're trying to ground it so hard in the zeitgeist, I think they've forgotten we like our fantasy to actually be the opposite of reality in some very important ways. 🤦♂
Glad you stopped by, SPP!
At last the worst design of the game, the original is so plain and generic that make me wanna cry, the new is very cool actually
Thanks. It was difficult.
infinitely better as per usual! great work BU!
Glad you think so!
While the OG looks like a random NPC, the redesign looks like an actual character
Thank you
He went from Aliens: Colonial Marines canon fodder to WH40k main character.
That's a really cool redesign, it's like Jean Claude Van Damme's Universal Soldier and Josh Brolin's Cable combined. The only thing I might add is a more unique and cool looking gun, maybe it transforms into a different configuration or with add on parts that he carries on his belt and hips which he slaps on to shoot different types of ammo.
crazy thihng is the gaemplay actually looked kinda dope. or at thje very least acceptable. but srsly, how did the art director okay the characters O_o especially the colors O_O
He went from grown ass kid playing laser tag to I've seen some shit grizzled soldier. Maybe the former was what they were going for. I really like the tron style glowwy bits on the armour. It just screams that it's powered in some way.
I think you are too harsh on yourself, but I do think your redesigns look like a first draft before they get sent around and returned with some suggestions. They still look 10x's better than a lot of designs I've seen, but I also think that since you're not really doing these designs as a job or commission that you're not pulling in all of your talent and focus. I also think that that is just fine because I feel like you're educating us on design philosophy while also making a superior redesign.
Good redesign. The original is just so bleh. When you were at the stage where the armor was still white, I thought the character could be a down on his luck post Star Wars stormtrooper
Original looks like he's just some guy going to laser tag. The redesign is someone with some actual story to tell. Like a merc that might just tell his story about that time he took a laser to the face and kept on soldiering on to complete the mission. Like a scifi Xiahou Dun or something.
I can actually see him as a main character now! Instead of a background grunt that isn't worth a second glance.
The orange + white version you ended up creating was like part Rogue Squadron, part Storm Trooper lol
To play devils advocate with the headphones those could be an attempt at off brand Comtacs which would make sense to give a solider
They just look goofy, especially with the headband...
@@BlacklistUniverse It doesn't look great, that's for sure
@@WarLordXavier Yeah, they took the idea of a soldier... and tried to make it sci-fi... without having an idea what that'd be.
Your version of Teo is like if Cable was like; "I know a guy."
Base design looks like they took John Morgan from Dead Island Riptide and added hockey pads
Not familiar.
Not gonna lie, OG Teo had some protagonist energy to him that kinda gets lost in the redesign.
Second!
congrats! lol
It wasn't having a diverse cast that ruined this. It was the unappealing design.
Plenty of other popular hero shooters have diverse cast like Overwatch and Apex Legends. Even new ones like Marval Rivals and Deadlock have diverse cast.
The diverse cast in those games all look appealing.
In Concord everyone looks unappealing. I don't want to play any of them.
Correct. Diversity in characters isn't an issue. It's lack of diversity in world view, and catering to the DEI/marxist agenda that kills merit, beauty, and quality.
Until today I didn't know his name was Teo, I thought his name is John Concord.
Love the redesign. Definitely not my favorite from yours but let's be honest, that task was impossible.
Even some of the recolorings weren't really that great, but the one with the Tron highlights looked really cool.
Yeah, it was a tough nut to crack.
As you said, the redesign has elements that are awesome. The overall composition ...eh. He'd benefit from a more dynamic pose perhaps.Still FAR better than the bland original but that's a low bar.
A very... very low bar.
It's really hard to do anything interesting with a "Captain Wonderbread" type of character because there's not much to work with from the getgo.
Right?
Looks like Chris Redfield from Resident Evil (the Original).
I feel like maybe you're obsessed with Resident Evil...
The end result looks like a cross of classic Hal Jordan & Cyborg. Favorite skin was the militaristic green.
I can see that.
Sure, it's not my favorite, but it still looks more interesting than the original desing, (love the blue and green version at 16:02). I think the antenna spike are clashing with the rest of the look in my opinion. maybe something more "blocky" and square to match the shoulder pads ?
I see what you mean.
I think this character is fine. To make him more interesting, you couldve changed his pose, make it more dynamic, but regardless, it looks really cool. Neo-Teo may not be the young freshling sniper he is in the game, but as a character he is way more appealing.
2nd edit: we might just take your re-designs and make a game from that :D Some of the character suggestions here in the comment section are actually worth cooking with :D
Lol, that would be epic.
There's no saving that original color scheme. Brave of you to try. But yea. This character is the epitome of what's wrong with Concord designs. They just look like they're wearing costumes and props rather than an actual outfit and gear.
The redesign is pretty decent. Not as good all round as some of the others, but there are definitely a lot of individually neat elements. At least without the original colors, heh. Those just, can ruin anything. The tron version definitely looks much more unique and interesting.
Appreciate it. I did what I could.
Well... after watching that video pointing out the lack of experience that the mayority of the devs and even some of the art/design team leaders had, you can tell how the game utterly failed so damm hard and looked really bland and trashy... i mean, you can get people with low exp to work on the minor stuff, but team leaders with only one or two game in their curriculum? For a supposedly AAA game? Hahaha you can tell how a real artist, even the amateur guys with some good sense of design, can get a really good base model for the character that surpasses by far that half billion dollars garbo...
If I had a fraction of that budget...
Remember, they only employed "talentless freaks" to work on this game, so it's not surprising the characters were designed as bad as they did!
Truth
Teo looks like a divorced dad who owns a struggling laser tag business trying to stay optimistic about life while clinging to the past 😂
hahaha... good call.
The original was at the sporting goods store when violence broke out and he thought, "I got this." So he broke open a display case, stole a gun, and was promptly shot by the redesign.
bwahahaha
the tron one is dope though. Have you looked up whst cocor means? 😂. Fudimentally cooked this game s. The irony of it all 😂
cocor? no?
Despite the end result still feeling a bit lacklustre it's still way better than the original. I think it's mostly just due to fatigue of the "Armoured soldier grunt" design you typically see in games though more than the character itself.
Good point.
Bro straight out far cry blood dragon main character. If you put him with robotic left arm too use his grenade because he assault soldier with mix of grenadier.
Ha! I just looked that up! lol
I feel like you could do less refined versions for others, if there are ones you want to do, group them together. But you've got the main ones, and the trend is dying anyway. Do what you think will work
Just one to go
Can't even lie put of EVERY character so far...I was waiting for THIS one the most!
Tio? More like BLANK SLATE😂. This guy is generic even by NPC standards🤣💀
He is the NPC of NPCs
I like the result and the final shot you show at the end of the video is the perfect color, though, the other color variations are good too.
Just a nice suggestion: for this character, I would like to see with more armor on his right OR with less armor on his left - I feel that something is missing with the body armor - in both versions.
Noted.
His sillouete reminds me of super sentai like Kamen Rider so it would have been cool if you went all in with a super sentai inspiration. The original Theo main artribute is being white which is ridiculous lol your version is a lot better.
Thank you, good point.
its better then the OG's thats for sure. i think the problem is you have nothing to work with save left shoulder armor. i don't know if you can build a hero shooter design around that and the one eye, no offence.
Yeah. Yeah. I am aware. lol
The hockey pads and headphones are because he is their version of the Scout from TF2, because all these style of games are just their re-imagining of TF2. The 'run and gunner' is always sport related for no reason at all, because the Scout was.
End result looks very Codename Strykeforce, but less badass, which is still way better than the original 'Generic Rebel Soldier #4' from Gary's Mod.
That makes sense... except that Scout isn't in some future sci-fi setting where giant headphones don't make any sense at all. lol
the original was so bad that i don't know if anyone could save it, but this got close to 'not that bad ' point, with that said gunslinger is probably still my favorite
Mine too.
I’d at like to see an arrangement with all of yours next to eachother compared to theirs so we can see your colours and silhouette changes in a large group of characters etc
I'll do that after the last one or something.
So much better than the original. Heavy armor on one side is cool
Thank you! Hope you're subbed!
You should add to the end a group picture before and after - but I guess you saved that for the last one.. The remakes are nice, but I'm affraid with all these mismatched original colors it will not really look harmonious at the end with you see the whole group..
I will likely do a specific video for that.
not sure that the artist is mad they have to make the white guy so they put the most boring color and design on him, he almost look gay , or they really hate stereo type white dude
Gays have way better taste than that outfit would allow. lol
there was no saving this character 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I tried.
Sooo coool
I love it! I get Deadshot vibes here
/ Sweden
There you go.
The original unironically reminded me of the design philosophy for the enemies of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon. Basically it was "imagine your budget was $40 in a sporting store to come up with their outfit" or something very similar, I'm paraphrasing... But those enemies were meant to have a schlocky 80s B movie feel. This was supposed to be a power house for Sony. 👀 I could sort of see what they were going for, I think. I think back to all the prop manipulations they did in the original Star Wars, different pieces of every thing to make guns look different, ect... As for this guy I dig the skin you did of him in a green shirt with blue pants, but that might just because the green top made me think of Doom. 😂
I could see that for some low budget B-film... is that the feel they were going for? lol
@@BlacklistUniverse I hope not. But it sure feels that way... Even if we go by the idea that they allegedly wanted a sort of retro sci-fi aesthetic, there are so many old movies that put a ton more effort and creativity into their costumes and props. Dune, Star Wars, the Last Starfighter... And even oldies like Flash Gordon or OG Star Trek had more cohesive designs for their time.
It's 10000 times better than the original.
That's still not saying much... hahaha
If you're looking for new stuff to do, I hear Dragon Age Veilguard characters are less than 7 1/2 heads tall (usually a no no unless you're doing chibi art) and the Darkspawn apparently look goofy as heck now. Would be cool to see what someone who actually understands design and proportion makes of it.
Maybe they're hobbits?
@@BlacklistUniverse Nah, unlike the characters from DA Veilguard, hobbits are cute :)
The character itself is played out. There is nothing unique about (insert mercinary) rifle dude. This games design is so bland its crazy they thought it would interest anyone.
That almost sounds like a challenge...
@BlacklistUniverse I'm sure if anyone e could do it justice, it's you, brother.
I love these videos. But definitely get those projects done and focus on what's better for your channel's growth. ♡
Also, I think I like the turtle colors. 🐢🐢🐢
(16:03)
But the glowy accents are definitely cooler.
Yeah, I'm way behind. My client must be pissed. lol
Interesting design in the end, I do not know if I like the asymmetric leg armor, I think more is less, the eye piece reminds me of cyborg. Idk. It's a solid work in the end, I'd pick him over pillow boy.
But pillow boy can take a nap anywhere at any time! It's like a super power!
@@BlacklistUniverse Oh my god he'd be overpowered on public transport. Youre right
Know what ? Your orange and white schème IS kinda Tau esche.
Whazzat mean?
@@BlacklistUniverse in Warhammer 40k universe, there IS a race called T'au. One if their sects has orange and white as ornemental colors.
Damn Mike I think you needed a drink affter this one; but it looks great, much better then the original Concord design.
Needed what?
@@BlacklistUniverse Sorry, needed a drink haha
Lol pretty sure he's south American or some shit
South America... South America... that the continent that was mostly taken over by Europeans over the last few hundred years? lol. Argentina is 95% European. And a whole mess of those are Germans who came over in the mid 1940's for some reason... hmmm
I think if you're able to salvage an original part of the design then go for it but some of your better ones are where you just went for ideas you had. Lizard man ( I refuse to learn their names) was a cool design and you kept none of it.
Yeah, maybe I should have just started from scratch on this one. lol
OG lizard man looked like a krokodil addict begging for scraps behind a space McDonalds
Maybe he won't be my favourite (sorry, Duchess and sniper girl were too awesome redesigns), but I would definitely play this character if your design of him was in the game (and I had the game).
Your words about being fond of your own art are much... Encouraging I would say.
If such a professional struggles with liking awesome things he does - maybe I also shouldn't worry that I don't like what I create that much.
I think it's for the best, because you're always looking at how to get better rather than stroking your own ego.
@@BlacklistUniverse Right, but sometimes it tends to be counterproductive, cause You can stop on the early stage, because "this piece is a trash" and delete/throw away it, and have this spark making you enjoying this craft faded.
Only one left
Can't say you keep the best for last because there is no best and cannot say the worst because you already did tupperware.
hahaha. I saved the one I have the least problems with for last. I don't know what I'm going to do with her!
@@BlacklistUniverse I know who, she is a pyronancer if it helps
I bet if this new design of yours will be their like exclusive skin that cost 40$ in season pass lol.
lol. but the game is canceled!
@@BlacklistUniverse Yep its dead dead dead xD
antennae cybernetics go hard
Better than earmuffs.
Yeah the colors kind of ruin the design.
Badly.
Redesigning and discussing Dustborn would be awesome
I don't think it has the juice or the staying power.
drastic improvement
Danke
I saw that silhouette and i had to watch
Epic. That's what it's there for!
I liked the tron lines version
It's my fave
He's giving John Cena
lol
Fixing John Concord.
Trying anyway.
I love your work!
Thank you! Cheers!
Good stuff
Glad you enjoyed
Looking good.
Thank you! Cheers!
7/10 Went from awful generic to passable badass. Scratch from zero needed.
Thank you.
He looks older
It's not the age. It's the mileage.
@@BlacklistUniverse Sorry, not American. I only understand kilometer.
@@aplaowattanakul7760 What is the 'mileage' word for kilometers?
@@BlacklistUniverse kilometrage
For real?
Solid 💪🏻
Gratze
You were seriously cooking with this one 🔥👏👏 This might actually be my favorite. I also appreciate your comment on 12:14 about asymmetrical design. I’m currently trying to create a personal nft art collection with asymmetrical costume elements to make each character feel truly unique. So far each character element are coming up nicely but I know the real struggle begins in the coloring phase 😫😫😫
Hit up the discord if you have nft questions. ;)
Bro the origonal one was wearing like lazer tag or football gear wtf man im not even halfway through and i like your design way more 😄
Thanks!
I think the original was supposed to be lame. Like some nerd trying to cosplay soldie4 76.
It was their only design that worked.
well... then they accomplished their goal. lol