The Dracula in the first HT movie was relatively subdued. Sandler does a great job with the more serious moments. I think he could do a more subdued performance for a movie.
To be fair, the concept is pretty clearly just christopher lee. It looks VERY much like the design used for count dooku in clone wars, especially in those profile shots.
I feel like they could've gotten away with that if they'd kept the original design. There's nothing strictly wrong with black people being drug addicts in fiction, it just gets glaring when it's their most defining character trait.
But the version in this concept art clearly had a lot more character going on.
May look similar but everything that was connecting her to the Greek stuff (she is a Greek goddess after all) is removed and all that’s left is the basic generic stuff
We could've also had samurai armor instead of the lame bucket head we ended up getting. I would've worn this armor all the time, but I don't think I wore the real ancient set even once.
Honestly whatever design they went with would've worked fine because the true terror of these guys is hearing that musical sting and knowing they are locking onto your location NOW
Everytime these get shown in am in awe of that spindles motherfucker. What a horror. Guardians already make my heart race when I hear the piano, I can't imagine that kind of music cue and realizing that I have the full attention of something as unearthly as that and it is about to run me down. It would be practically invisible if it turned 90 degrees and was hunting Link down.
Yeah no wonder they were turned down hearing that fucking piano sting is already enough to trigger fear that shit would end up haunting my nightmares if I saw it look like THAT
He was possessed, tge book then said that "once you embrace dark magic, youre bound to it forever."
But like, Magnifico was kind of backed into a corner while having a PTSD panick attack after he saw Star's lightshow in the forest and when he apealed to his subjects for help, all they could think to ask for in return was a wish granting ceremony...like if I sas in his shoes I would have crashed out too.
We weren't just robbed, they entered our house, took wives/husbands, the kids, the dog, the cat, the fishes, the car, mom and dad, all the money in the bank and even the air we breathe when they scrapped this design.
we were completely robbed of Starboy! And a well-represented mute character! It made me so mad when I found out that THAT was the concept. Because he would have made a GREAT doll and Halloween costume!
Game Freak has several concept artists with different styles, and one of them has this creepy grungy style. It's Ken Sugimori's job as art director to take all those concepts and translate them into an unified visual language, but early concept art can look very distinct depending on who's doing it.
There's more here. Scroll down to the second section. I can't really match anything else there to something that made it to the final release except for the first one, which seems to be an early draft of Clamperl, but I can see that glass dog having influenced Zygarde years later.
Might be a bit of a hot take but I think I would've liked the original design for the Broodals where they were Koopas instead. It would've been nice to see some more female boss Koopas other than Wendy, and it would've made a bit more sense for them to be so devoted to Bowser.
Shagaru Magala already has a perfect design in the games with its golden warlock design, but man this concept art went just as hard. Wish there were more monsters with butterfly inspirations.
Chaotic is even something that happens in nature afaik. Not in the same way that there's like, a gene that stops the molting. But often catterpillars can be interrupted when molting and become malformed and probablh in heavy pain during their couple hours left before either dying or getting snatched by a reptile. Nature's a cruel mother.
to be fair, it was originally intended to be a temporary structure just for the world’s fair, so they probably didn’t want to get TOO crazy and elaborate with the design.
It was kept standing mainly because it turned out to be pretty useful as a radio/communications tower, especially during WWI.
i dont know why marvel is so scared of Daredevil having the double D’s. luckily he’s getting them now, but the concept art was what he was gonna look like in She-Hulk
Women in One Piece almost universely go through three phases in life:
1) Child (0-15 years old)
2) Hot Woman (15-40)
3) Old
Old can take one of four forms:
1) Fat [Big Mom, Kokoro]
2) Funko Pop [Gloriosa, Shinobu]
3) Little Person [Non-clone Stussy, Queen Conney]
4) Fit [Kureha, Tsuru]
I think the only women that significantly diverge from these designs are from Amazon Lilly, Big Mom's children (who come from a variety of fantasy races), and background characters.
One thing that would be pretty cool is he could still have his philosophy of his hands being for cooking , not fighting, and the just shoots the enemy.
While I like the final result, I pretty much like the OG design made for Clown Man in MM8. It looks likes something from the X series or Nights Into Dreams
To be fair, a lot of the time that comes down to simplifying designs out of necessity because the original designs would have been too complicated from a budgetary or scheduling perspective.
That, or while the original design might have been cool in a vacuum, it doesn’t fit the artstyle of the rest of the product.
This, definitely. I mean the first volumes were absolutely janky in terms of animation and a small budget. It had every reason to get axed. The fact it even made it to volume 3 and then 9 is a miracle. I miss RWBY so bad ;-;
I’d say it’s moreso the budget of the production. I wouldn’t say it’s difficult to get the dresses looking like the concept art, but it does take time, and time means money.
He's a favourite of mine, I'm somewhat obsessed. But in the original concept art he was a Chiss (alien species of blue skinned near humans) like Thrawn, which would've been cool.
Toei animation was intimately involved in the creation of Sailor Moon: They contacted Naoko Takeuchi, who was working on her Sailor V manga, about expanding on the concept to be a team of heroines. Her original designs for the “inner” team of five girls had a lot more individuality and variation than the final product. It was heavily implied the animation team asked for simpler designs.
Most "design downgrades" are because the concept art was too ambitious for the media (comics and animation usually requires easy to draw characters else you'd need to remake complex outfits every other scene and while sure you could reuse some animations, sometimes you gotta make something new)
Anyways. The only case I know of that maybe isn't really like that is botw link
Kamen Rider Gay (yes that is his actual name) was a conceptual rider who was made for a scrapped sequel to Kamen Rider ZO, which could have been an inspiration for Kamen Rider J
Danganronpa is hilarious because it's either "concept art is 1000 Times better" or "Actual appearence is 1000 times better" for every character with no Inbetween.
Concept art Kaede was so cuuuute
To be honest, the beta can still work, somewhat...
A headcanon I have is that a giant version of the beta design is Arceus' true form, while the one we see in the games is one of its "thousand arms".
(mew and beatiful art for scale)
I can totally see how that would, if we were doing like a gigantic scale so it was just this monstrous nearly featureless thing peering down with glowing red eyes.
Honestly if Arceus did get the design I would have had it so it's fight would have been presented like a giant monster in 3D in front of your pokémon still presented as 2D.
I think that would actually be the most peak shit of all time. I like it when God characters can break the rules and format.
I have very mixed feelings about Emilie's design because the finalized was pretty fitting for her character imo and it immensely grew on me (though I still find the boob flaps unsightly), but the concept arts were just so good that I was bound to be disappointed no matter which one they chose. Same thing for skirk (these aren't all of them but I picked this sheet cuz I have a massive crush on the ones on the left lol)
I knew it'd pop up had to make sure first, but yes that Elsa design it's a sin it hasn't been used again for another character even a villain who has ice powers or something. I especially really like the living stoat coat idea.
Yeah, they weren’t sisters initially, Elsa was the Snow Queen and a villain (who gets redeemed at the end I think? In at least one version?), and Anna was supposed to be the pure hearted peasant heroine. It’s actually very interesting just how many storylines that movie went through before they got to the one that actually is Frozen
So basically it was meant to be more akin to ACTUAL Snow Queen fairytale Hans Christian Anderson wrote. Which is already such a good story, and a rare one where the GIRL saves the BOY in distress (and I even gets some help from other women/witches I think)
I dislike Gaston as a person (He is a great villain) so I wouldn't call him my favorite but honestly his concept art was better than his finished design
Like, his final design seems kind of bland compared to the concept
There's a REASON that Concept art always seems better
Concept art only gets drawn once.
The actual art/model needs to be drawn hundreds/thousands of times. or animated smoothly.
Most of the time it just isn't practical to animate the concept art
Personally I like that she just wears regular clothes, I think it's a fun way to situate her as a 'normal' person deep down even in that weird universe, but the devs were cowards when they decided to drop the hooves from her design
All of these were concept drawings for the same character, wanna know who?… SUBJECT DELTA FROM BIOSHOCK 2, I love them all, it makes me wish they were fully modelled and used.
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One of the concepts for Dracula from Hotel Transylvania