Friday, March 24, 2023

No. 908: Mewoscarada

Now, for my next trick... 

Meowscarada looks like Arkana from Yu-Gi-Oh. Except wearing tights. Just to put that mental image in your mind.

That yo-yo is now a... magical levitating flower? a singular Gundam Bit? Navi from Ocarina of Time? Gradius's Option? If anything, the artwork looks like it's supposed to be juggling, except there's only 1 ball. And then the animators saw the concept art, but were unable to come up with any way to feature it besides just having it float around.

That's the only distracting thing about an otherwise solid design.


Overall: 8/10

3 comments:

  1. There's a story that gets passed around. About a company where people made 3D animations for a game. And the managers of the team had a tendency to always want to make adjustments. So to anticipate for this, the modelers would add a completely superfluous duck to the models, just so the managers could go "great, just get rid of the duck", rather than feeling the need to meddle for the sake of it.

    That's what this yoyo ball flower reminds me of. Maybe it's a duck that nobody thought of removing.

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    1. https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/
      a source for the duck story, though I'm not positive it's the original.

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  2. Here is the entry from scarlet that can settle things. This Pokémon uses the reflective fur lining its cape to camouflage the stem of its flower, creating the illusion that the flower is floating.

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