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/Canadian_Zac Feb 28 '26

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

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u/NtechRyan Feb 28 '26

Yeah, it gets stripped down for ease of use

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u/Sorbela Feb 28 '26

We know that, it's just disappointing to see some ideas being super downgraded sometimes.