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This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
Oh man, am I ever here for this kind of thing.
It’s really amazing how storytelling you can convey when you focus on the characters and the story itself rather than dipping into cheap tropes that take a lot of work to say thing.
Especially if you’re willing to commit to letting your female characters get a little roughed up and scarred.
Beautiful.
– wincenworks
Armor/character designs based on the heroin Jeanne d’arc.
What a nice example of what taking real historical armors as a reference can result in!
~Ozzie
Gender is messier than a singular point on a two-dimensional line
Gender is messier than a singular point on a two-dimensional line
It’s worth bringing up that while the vast majority of content we cover is direct comparisons of depictions of cis women to cis men, and the main reason for this is frankly it’s very rare for popular media to create engaging characters that aren’t cis and/or don’t conform to the gender binary.
The complexities of gender along with the complexities of trying to incorporate signifiers in your designs are perhaps yet another great reason to instead focus on other aspects in armor/costume design. Concepts like:
- Practicalities and priorities in combat/adventuring
- Personality traits and personal histories of characters
- Unique or special traits of the world in which the character exists
Basically all the stuff that often gets considered with cis male characters design processes in most media. Then we can have all kinds of characters created with the same sort of depth and respect.
Kind of amazing that we have people who are opposed to this.
– wincenworks
Gender is messier than a singular point on a two-dimensional line
Gender is messier than a singular point on a two-dimensional line
It’s worth bringing up that while the vast majority of content we cover is direct comparisons of depictions of cis women to cis men, and the main reason for this is frankly it’s very rare for popular media to create engaging characters that aren’t cis and/or don’t conform to the gender binary.
The complexities of gender along with the complexities of trying to incorporate signifiers in your designs are perhaps yet another great reason to instead focus on other aspects in armor/costume design. Concepts like:
- Practicalities and priorities in combat/adventuring
- Personality traits and personal histories of characters
- Unique or special traits of the world in which the character exists
Basically all the stuff that often gets considered with cis male characters design processes in most media. Then we can have all kinds of characters created with the same sort of depth and respect.
Kind of amazing that we have people who are opposed to this.
– wincenworks
Why stuntwomen are in more danger than men
Why stuntwomen are in more danger than men
@sartoriainsulindica submitted:
An interesting look at how dubious costume choices/designs can significantly increase the level of danger that must be faced by real-life women (stunt performers, in this case) working to portray fictional characters.
An oft overlooked factor when people insist that this is all just make believe and so doesn’t really matter.
It goes without saying, of course, that if trying to do stunts in carefully controlled environments becomes more dangerous due to ridiculous costumes then those same outfits raise the dangers in a chaotic environment (such as a battlefield) exponentially.
– wincenworks
Why stuntwomen are in more danger than men
Why stuntwomen are in more danger than men
@sartoriainsulindica submitted:
An interesting look at how dubious costume choices/designs can significantly increase the level of danger that must be faced by real-life women (stunt performers, in this case) working to portray fictional characters.
An oft overlooked factor when people insist that this is all just make believe and so doesn’t really matter.
It goes without saying, of course, that if trying to do stunts in carefully controlled environments becomes more dangerous due to ridiculous costumes then those same outfits raise the dangers in a chaotic environment (such as a battlefield) exponentially.
– wincenworks