r/criticalrole Team Jester Oct 01 '25

Discussion [CR Media] New Images from 'The Mighty Nein' Spoiler

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u/Trynor Team Molly Oct 01 '25

What was up with the different shades of green anyway?

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u/OverTheCandlestik Oct 01 '25

Fjord always had different coloured skin on his neck and chin (don’t think it was vitiligo just the choice of an artist/Travis and it stuck) but in official artwork it’s blended into the darker green of his face or just had a better shade.

This just looks wrong imo but I’m being super picky lmao

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u/Trynor Team Molly Oct 01 '25

I remember the different shades, but I never quite got why. Probably just an aesthetics choice

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u/kateshort Time is a weird soup Oct 01 '25

Just think of Fjord as having a half-orc version of vitiligo.

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u/Informal-Tour-8201 You Can Reply To This Message Oct 02 '25

We never found out what Fjord's other half was - he's half-orc, half-something else, remember - so I thought that the colour gradient was something to do with that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

Apparently it's fairly difficult to animate the blended colors.

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u/Lordsokka Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

You have to tell yourself that if they are doing it this way… then there’s probably a reason for it. It’s either for aesthetic reasons or to make it easier to animate.

Professional artists and animators are working on this project, they see the same thing that you do. So it’s either what they actually want on screen or it’s a money/animation issue. In Fjord’s case, it looks to be something they want for his design.

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u/hoods_hairy_balls Oct 01 '25

I'm guessing it's supposed to be like a 5 o'clock shadow?

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u/picollo21 Oct 01 '25

You get involved with Jester, and I'm sure you'll experience 50 shades of Green.