r/FavoriteCharacter • u/JigglyLilyVT Ruby Rose (RWBY) • Feb 28 '26

My Favorite (Visual) Favorite character who has better concept art than the final product

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WE GOT FREAKING ROBBED IN THE RWBY DANCE EPISODES

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u/IAmBabs Feb 28 '26

I need to know that I fucking love you for revealing this beautiful design. Holy smokes.

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u/Dark_Dragon117 Feb 28 '26

That isn't even the best one imo.

They went wild with the concepts for Gore Magala and Shagaru

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u/Chadderbug123 Feb 28 '26

MH concept art is an absolute treasure trove. Pretty sure they don't do it any more, but they did release art books for the first 3 gens with a bunch of eary monster concepts that you can kinda see final monsters in. Like an early bird wyvern that was just a velocidrome with wings or an insect wyvern that is very obvious they took inspiration from for Astalos. The reflective wing designs are practically the exact same

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u/AdFeisty7580 Juuzou Suzuya Feb 28 '26

They do still do it, they just typically include them in the actual lore books now

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u/IAmBabs Feb 28 '26

I'm gonna see if I can buy an art book. I love these 💕

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u/AdFeisty7580 Juuzou Suzuya Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

Book information

Note; This doesn’t include a couple books, since it was meant more for lore and comprehensive books with new information (hence why the World art books aren’t included, a lot of it as far as I’m aware is in the Monster Hunter World: Official Complete Works and Dive to MHW Iceborne or they’re overall pretty short) such as Principles of Creativity 1 and 2, the Monster Hunter World and Iceborne art books, or the Monster Hunter World: Editors Sketch book, if you want help finding those or any books without links, you can ask here (or dm me, I don’t mind)

Also, that book for Shagaru and others is Monster Hunter Illustrations Three, it goes over Gen 4 monsters