Immortal Nobody
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**First off I'd like to say I think the artists do a great job for the most part and I am not attacking any of them in any way. I say this because I'm probably about to use some words in a way that can be taken the wrong way. I use them as a way of correctly portraying my feelings on the matter since, as we all know, simple text is not adequate enough to do so.**
I'm sure we've all come across some item poses that are not configured correctly (i.e. those green splotches, items not layering correctly (such as socks on the outside of pants), items not being big enough to cover the entire body, etc.) and are so wrong that it totally kills any desire you have to use it. Well I've come across one that quite frankly annoys the hell out of me.
If you can't tell from the picture, the item is the Hooded Vest pose of the AFK Scarf and the hair is labeled as Girl's Wildflower Black. The issue I'm having with this pose is the bangs. Who in their right mind thought this looked right? Half the hair is under the hood and half the hair is sticking out the side. So she's only wearing the hood on the right side of her head? Or does she have her hair styled in such a way that the left half is sticking straight forward? Either way it looks really stupid. Below I will post a couple screen shots I edited.
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Doesn't that look much better? Number one was taken from Tektek's dream avatar creator (with the hair sticking out the back erased). Number two is between the layering on Gaia and the layering on Tektek. What I did there was overlay the hair on the hood and then erased everything that wasn't bangs. Now, I have next to zero experience making pixel art (I may have the term wrong, I've always heard Gaia's avatars and items referred to by that) but I think it looks pretty good. At least I think it looks a hell of a lot better than Gaia's version.
I have to assume Gaia's reasoning for the lack of proper layering in this particular instance is pure laziness. For an example of where they did right, go to Tektek and put an OMG Hat over the Red Feather Wig pose of the White Drome Egg. Then do it on Gaia. They did a damn good job making sure nothing odd stuck out on that one. So why was this one so hard?
Needless to say, I would like this pose fixed. I really wanna use that hood cuz I think it's cute but with the hair sticking out the way it does it just looks so wrong that I can't get over it. It's just one of those thing where you look at it and your brain says wtf. It really does look like she has the hood tucked behind her ear and who the hell wears their hood like that?
I'm sure we've all come across some item poses that are not configured correctly (i.e. those green splotches, items not layering correctly (such as socks on the outside of pants), items not being big enough to cover the entire body, etc.) and are so wrong that it totally kills any desire you have to use it. Well I've come across one that quite frankly annoys the hell out of me.
If you can't tell from the picture, the item is the Hooded Vest pose of the AFK Scarf and the hair is labeled as Girl's Wildflower Black. The issue I'm having with this pose is the bangs. Who in their right mind thought this looked right? Half the hair is under the hood and half the hair is sticking out the side. So she's only wearing the hood on the right side of her head? Or does she have her hair styled in such a way that the left half is sticking straight forward? Either way it looks really stupid. Below I will post a couple screen shots I edited.
1)
2) Doesn't that look much better? Number one was taken from Tektek's dream avatar creator (with the hair sticking out the back erased). Number two is between the layering on Gaia and the layering on Tektek. What I did there was overlay the hair on the hood and then erased everything that wasn't bangs. Now, I have next to zero experience making pixel art (I may have the term wrong, I've always heard Gaia's avatars and items referred to by that) but I think it looks pretty good. At least I think it looks a hell of a lot better than Gaia's version.
I have to assume Gaia's reasoning for the lack of proper layering in this particular instance is pure laziness. For an example of where they did right, go to Tektek and put an OMG Hat over the Red Feather Wig pose of the White Drome Egg. Then do it on Gaia. They did a damn good job making sure nothing odd stuck out on that one. So why was this one so hard?
Needless to say, I would like this pose fixed. I really wanna use that hood cuz I think it's cute but with the hair sticking out the way it does it just looks so wrong that I can't get over it. It's just one of those thing where you look at it and your brain says wtf. It really does look like she has the hood tucked behind her ear and who the hell wears their hood like that?
