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I love her art style and thats a great sketch book!! I don't know what pages I like more all the kobolds & ogres? marcille dancing?
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Kui is very very good at a lot of things, but the one thing that really stands out to me in her art is how good she is att drawing differences in apperance. Often even really good artists end up drawing most of their characters with a few very similar body types with a major case of sameface. Kui however is fantastic at giving pretty much every character an unique and natural look with varying body types and distinctive facial features.
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May 20, 2020 15:43
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DekeThornton posted:Kui is very very good at a lot of things, but the one thing that really stands out to me in her art is how good she is att drawing differences in apperance. Often even really good artists end up drawing most of their characters with a few very similar body types with a major case of sameface. Kui however is fantastic at givinga pretty much every character an unique and natural look with varying body types and distinctive facial features. Yeah, absolutely. It's really impressive how many characters are easily identifiable just from seeing their eyes. That would be difficult to achieve even in a drawing style that's not as deliberately simple as Dungeon Meshi's. And all of those characters are still extremely expressive; you can almost always see the general mood they're in. And on top of that, Kui is also extremely good at panel composition. A potential anime will be quite a task.
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i only want there to be a dm anime if it is a gorgeous labor of love. like, why even bother otherwise?
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It'd be perfect for an old-style OVA, just covering a few of the best chapters with really nice art and attention to detail, not expecting viewers to want much intro to the story/characters or a firm story ending. But a full-rear end anime would need to be 2+ cours to really go somewhere with the story and characters and that'd just be monkey paw curls all year long unless some absurdly rich fan just dumptrucks money onto a studio. The dragon+farlyn chapters might make a good feature-length thing too, just for the animation spectacle, and to do Big Lore Wheelies for people new to the manga, but it'd be a pretty downer ending to finish somewhere around Farlyn going away again Modern Casual Dork Edition Laius has tremendous power btw. I love those modern dress sketches in general, it's great to see kui just having fun and exploring ideas. It's also rare and refreshing in manga art to see Extremely Japanese-looking characters like most of the onis and Sureaus' crew, not just a different face and eye shape, though that might be just as much me reading junk Wallrod fucked around with this message at 17:10 on May 20, 2020 |
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May 20, 2020 16:56
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W-wait, the goofy elf is a dude?? My god, I have to change his mental voice actor now!
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May 20, 2020 17:38
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Let's rewatch the mangá promo and dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aUBQZc9h1w
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May 20, 2020 18:00
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I cant get through a single chapter of this series without craving some kind of food. Did anyone else suddenly get a hankering for hamburgers while reading this one? Maybe its just me. That series of images showing how each party leader works with their team members was pretty neat.
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Wallrod posted:It'd be perfect for an old-style OVA, just covering a few of the best chapters with really nice art and attention to detail, not expecting viewers to want much intro to the story/characters or a firm story ending. But a full-rear end anime would need to be 2+ cours to really go somewhere with the story and characters and that'd just be monkey paw curls all year long unless some absurdly rich fan just dumptrucks money onto a studio. The dragon+farlyn chapters might make a good feature-length thing too, just for the animation spectacle, and to do Big Lore Wheelies for people new to the manga, but it'd be a pretty downer ending to finish somewhere around Farlyn going away again ...Not really? Everything from the beginning up to revival of Farlyn, with fight with the red dragon and their reunion with Farlyn as a finale is pretty much ideal for anime adaption. At roughly 28 chapters, it's just enough material for a single cour at a pace of roughly 2-3 chapters per episode which is a pretty good pace for a monthly manga adaptations. (Vinland Saga adaptation, for example, had roughly the same pace). That would give you a great, self-contained season, that would do a pretty good job demonstrating what Dungeon Meshi is about, while having a pretty ok ending. I agree that everything after that is a bit harder to adapt, because there is no clear moment to end the future seasons on, but IMHO the theoretical season 1 of Dungeon Meshi anime is pretty much locked on.
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All of Farlyn’s horrible circumstances are karma from denying the world her scruffy brother.
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If an adaptation ever happens, Dungeon Meshi deserves one where the staff clearly loves the source material, like what happened with Mob Psycho 100. It'd be a shame for it to be anything less. I also badly cropped and redrew the dancing Marcilles earlier, but couldn't figure out the timing or order.  Uploaded all the other poses into an album if anyone wants to use them to try and make their own. https://imgur.com/a/cfmDKsR
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Avordoc posted:couldn't figure out the timing or order. don't worry, she couldn't either
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DrSunshine posted:W-wait, the goofy elf is a dude?? My god, I have to change his mental voice actor now! there was an argument about that in the reddit discord last night- the translator initially assumed them not wearing a bra in the concept art meant they were a guy, but just from the way japanese handles gendered language that character had never been explicitly referred to as anything either there or in the main work so the translator ended up going back and editing that caption to use "they" instead
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Lt. Lizard posted:...Not really? Everything from the beginning up to revival of Farlyn, with fight with the red dragon and their reunion with Farlyn as a finale is pretty much ideal for anime adaption. At roughly 28 chapters, it's just enough material for a single cour at a pace of roughly 2-3 chapters per episode which is a pretty good pace for a monthly manga adaptations. (Vinland Saga adaptation, for example, had roughly the same pace). That would give you a great, self-contained season, that would do a pretty good job demonstrating what Dungeon Meshi is about, while having a pretty ok ending. I agree that everything after that is a bit harder to adapt, because there is no clear moment to end the future seasons on, but IMHO the theoretical season 1 of Dungeon Meshi anime is pretty much locked on.  gimme the GOD drat candy posted:don't worry, she couldn't either Wallrod fucked around with this message at 20:51 on May 20, 2020 |
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I'd say the clothing options in the artbook are pretty solid way of seeing which gender each of the elves is.
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Poor Farlyn getting bullied by dogs, she's really had a hard life. 
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Cao Ni Ma posted:I'd say the clothing options in the artbook are pretty solid way of seeing which gender each of the elves is. yeah
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Cao Ni Ma posted:I'd say the clothing options in the artbook are pretty solid way of seeing which gender each of the elves is. It don't matter when its elven, baby /Frost
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Jerkface posted:It don't matter when its elven, baby Two elves diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not romance them both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth
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goddamn kui is talented. Those ogre/oni designs blew me away. I kind of wish she was a creative lead for some larger project in a game or anime studio.
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Dragon's Dogma Meshi, that's all I want.
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Scruffy Laius is hot as gently caress. Also I'm pretty sure clothing detectives looking at the modern outfits button placements and some more recent nipple placement detectives have determined the elf with her flat titties out in this art pack is in fact a girl elf but like *waves hand vaguely* Elf... But for real everyone has said it before but Kui is single handedly pushing fantasy to whole new heights just from her ability to draw so many different faces and body types. This silly little comic about eating monsters has basically set the bar for fantasy aesthetics that all future works in the genre should be compared too.
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I think its the combination of her distinctiveness as everyone has mentioned and then an ability to imbue a kind of "real life" aesthetic into the characters. Its the little touches! Most fantasies don't spend the time on that poo poo, it really elevates the work. The different expression, reactions, small movements, actions, etc the characters take outside of the typical fantasy fighting are great. To elaborate I think many fantasy manga or anime can have characters do a funny reaction or something but its usually not grounded in the setting. Its blatantly comedic or anachronistic. Dungeon Meshi characters act within their universe in very human ways which are well captured by the drawing style. Just thinking of the 9 panel of marcille doing her hair, great poo poo. It is very funny as someone who can maybe draw 1 kind of eyeball to see the page with like 3 dozen different eye sets. Show off! Jerkface fucked around with this message at 06:29 on May 21, 2020 |
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Chapter 9's simultaneous bread-making and arguing was immensely entertaining. Also I've heard kobolds being lizard/dragon/imp dudes before, but never dogs.
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Ott_ posted:Chapter 9's simultaneous bread-making and arguing was immensely entertaining. Also I've heard kobolds being lizard/dragon/imp dudes before, but never dogs. Every instance I've seen of anything called a "kobold" in manga have been dog-people. From what I've found it stems from a mistranslation of AD&D where kobold's "dog-like features" got translated to "dog-like creature" and from older RPGs where they were dog-like. It's like how orcs in manga have pig faces as opposed to green skin.
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I approve of this change
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Balache404 posted:Every instance I've seen of anything called a "kobold" in manga have been dog-people. From what I've found it stems from a mistranslation of AD&D where kobold's "dog-like features" got translated to "dog-like creature" and from older RPGs where they were dog-like. It's like how orcs in manga have pig faces as opposed to green skin. My research concluded that the Wizadry series introduced the dog kobolds. And after looking it up, the pig orcs, too. -e- Nah, pig orcs are early D&D. Wizardry definitely cemented the dog kobolds in Japanese players minds, though. Lurking Haro fucked around with this message at 07:12 on May 28, 2020 |
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Kobolds were definitely dog-like in earlier editions of D&D, it's only later that they were retconned to be more lizard-like (and related to dragons) because they thought it'd be funny to have a weak and pitiful relative of dragons, I guess.
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I'll always think of kobolds as doggos because of first seeing one in SMT.
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My first mention of Kobolds was when they were dogperson-shaped Cobalts in Lufia/Lufia 2. Hooray janky translation!
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The babby dnd starter set I got in like 1990 featured dog kobolds so they will always be dogs to me
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My first kobold encounter was Baldur's Gate, where they were yipping things that came in swarms and decayed your metal gear. Lizard-ish, but pretty low resolution. To muddy the waters even further, I imagine plenty of people's first Kobolds were from WoW. You no take candle!  Rat-people. Oh, and Lufia may have been janky translation, but apparently cobalt was named after the Germanic mine spirits because of it's tendancy to poison ores, like the Baldur's Gate kobolds. Most accurate depiction? Maybe not. The traditional kobold was, like classic goblins, pixies and other mischevious sprites, basically a short ugly person, but one of it's distinguishing characteristic is that it typically took the form of a humanoid, an animal, a fire or... a candle.
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My first interaction with kobolds was probably Ragnarok and they were blue dogs then and thats how they'll always look to me in my mind. Actually no, it was Suikoden's kobolds and they were militant dog people but of a variety of races
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These l'il horned rat boys were my kobolds growing up (description below mentions scales, though), but Deekin sold me on l'il dragon people kobolds. (As an aside, I still ADORE the art in the AD&D 2e Monstrous Manual. It's distinctive and lovely) Zero_Tactility fucked around with this message at 00:48 on May 30, 2020 |
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D'Litiezzeri (haha, oh wow, I knew it was wrong, but it was off the top of my head after at least a decade of having last seen it and I was basically going 'just get it close enough for Google to figure it out...it didn't), ahem, DiTerlizzi, was a D&D household name for as long as he was for a good reason. I wish he had gotten more work in 3rd edition and beyond.
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Zero_Tactility posted:(As an aside, I still ADORE the art in the AD&D 2e Monstrous Manual. It's distinctive and lovely) Except for the Invisible Stalker.
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Crasical posted:Except for the Invisible Stalker. To take this slightly less off-topic, but still give me an excuse to post old D&D art: these guys were one of my favorite monsters back in the day (Small, obnoxious, singing mushrooms. About as smart as a cat), and I feel like they would have made a great Dungeon Meshi chapter. (Marcille would be very unhappy about the faces) 
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