#conditional design

[lancelotslair]

dinah voice "awww, lets get you to a hospital!"

[bixels]

I think 90% of my gripes with how modern anime looks comes down to flat color design/palettes.

Non-cohesive, washed-out color palettes can destroy lineart quality. I see this all the time when comparing an anime's lineart/layout to its colored/post-processed final product and it's heartbreaking. Compare this pre-color vs. final frame from Dungeon Meshi's OP.

So much sharpness and detail and weight gets washed out and flattened by 'meh' color design. I LOVE the flow and thickness and shadows in the fabrics on the left. The white against pastel really brings it out. Check out all the detail in their hair, the highlights in Rin's, the different hues to denote hair color, the blue tint in the clothes' shadows, and how all of that just gets... lost. It works, but it's not particularly good and does a disservice to the line-artist.

I'm using Dungeon Meshi as an example not because it's bad, I'm just especially disappointed because this is Studio Trigger we're talking about. The character animation is fantastic, but the color design is usually much more exciting. We're not seeing Trigger at their full potential, so I'm focusing on them.

Here's a very quick and messy color correct. Not meant to be taken seriously, just to provide comparison to see why colors can feel "washed out." Top is edit, bottom is original.

You can really see how desaturated and "white fluorescent lighting" the original color palettes are.

[Remember: the easiest way to make your colors more lively is to choose a warm or cool tint. From there, you can play around with bringing out complementary colors for a cohesive palette (I warmed Marcille's skintone and hair but made sure to bring out her deep blue clothes). Avoid using too many blend mode layers; hand-picking colors will really help you build your innate color sense and find a color style. Try using saturated colors in unexpected places! If you're coloring a night scene, try using deep blues or greens or magentas. You see these deep colors used all the time in older anime because they couldn't rely on a lightness scale to make colors darker, they had to use darker paints with specific hues. Don't overthink it, simpler is better!]

[canisalbus]

Hypothetically if. If they had a kiddo. A puppy. Does that hypothetical child have a design in your genius artist head anywhere

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[quailsprout]

starlight

[furfurfrou]

I've managed to beat up the train blorbos in the pasio subway extreme battles. Here's the ending cutscene that plays out for those who couldn't make it this far:

Ingo and Emmet I love you very much but I'm going to have to beat you with hammers for the nonsense you just put me through

[auriidae]

we let our ships collide; we let our ships collide; we let our ships collide

[puppetmastery]

getting slowly but inexorably corrupted by some insidious evil probably feels good as hell

[beccawise7]

Dreamy homes & places. 💜🖤

(Ecuador)

[the-knife-consumer]

can we hear more about max lives au? i’m curious what the max from the alternate universe thinks about things? does he just skulk and watch from the side?

He sulks in the Max lives timeline for a while because (so far) it was the closest he got to succeeding. (Something I haven't explained- this is the first time alt max had found a timeline where he was the one with psychic abilities. After this one he searches for another where he's the psychic one and eventually finds it where he then directly interferes with events and sets it up for original Max's death. And then swoops in at Sam's lowest point to say "oh hi!". So I kind of made it tie in to the canon of tdph. kind of. This au is just one of his many failures.)

And when he finally does start searching again... Very quickly snaps between scary determination and doom spiraling often.

Also this. One off silly. And otter stinky from a "all animal characters are now human and all human characters are now animals" timeline he popped into briefly.

[orpheuswasmine]

“Park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me.”

I COME WITH MORE A HUMAN CONDITION FANART (a background is here 😟 ive never drawn a background let alone rendered one) This piece is based on Chapter 25 !!! Actually fell in love with that chapter and while I was rendering the background after reading, I thought about making a duo drawing of Ford playing the piano, so it be a duology !!! If there’s a reference that mimics this I’d love to grab my hand on it !!! I love parallels 🙏 (this been edited bc the lighting was messed up and i forgot the other without the lighting 😿)

I hit Bill with the I Saw the TV Glow poster, because genuinely think that movie and the Last Unicorn would have torn him apart tbh 💀 I almost made the title a quote from either movie 😭

@sapphosscribe

[maiaczy]

I've been kinda slow with the requests lately coz uni work is kicking my ass rn, but since it's jojolands day I felt morally obligated to do this one

@cailaope

[theswedishpajas]

So I got an idea.

[zinjanthropusboisei]

The weird part was that some of our security recordings had been released. My vantage point, as I searched the Deltfall habitat and found the bodies. Views from Gurathin's and Pin-Lee's helmet cameras, when they found Mensah and what was left of me after the explosion.

(Artificial Condition)

[littlescammer]

E. Eto. Slap. Or smthn

[rorah]

I love Byleth's academy uniform a lot 🥺 (And the way i go back in a mentality of an 8 years old lil girl looking at their silver matching uniforms whispering chaotically evil: "they're canon" e___e /J )

Original image reference

[yanmunchymochi]

2P!Poland

Trying to mimic the old style, does this looks like it's from 2010-2017?

original quality and without background under the cut