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slushpilehell:

slushpilehell:

Have you ever wondered how chain mail would feel against your skin on a cold winter’s day?

Duh. Who hasn’t?

Plenty of people haven’t. Particularly costume/character designers who think that chainmail is somewhere between latex and bodypaint in terms of thickness.

They’d probably get along with whoever wrote the quoted sentence and ended up in the slush pile.

~Ozzie

Given how often skin tight chainmail has made me cringe at that very thought, I am still amazed someone actually though this was a great way to pitch a book to anyone, let alone a literary agent.

– wincenworks

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Sexy is not bad. Stripping is not bad. Wearing sexy boots is not bad. You know what is bad? Pandering is. Being a lazy designer at the cost of catching a wider audience is.
A bounty hunter who runs over rugged terrain does not need stripper boots, she needs something with treads and function that can *gasp* still be sexy. I can picture a hybrid boot design that is feminine but rugged, functional but badass.
You know what conveys things like “boosters” and “power” and “high jump”? Springs, coils, energy cells, treads, jets… you don’t have to be literal but you also might want to show, not tell, what a prop does.

High-Jump Stripper Boots! by stephlaberis

Very important quote from this article regarding Samus’s high heels, but it applies to character and costume design in general.

~Ozzie

(via bikiniarmorbattledamage)

Worth bringing back that there’s nothing wrong with sexy in itself, but there’s a time and a place for everything.  When you’re trying to convey epic action and epic danger is not the time for epic sexy time clothes.

– wincenworks

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Sexy is not bad. Stripping is not bad. Wearing sexy boots is not bad. You know what is bad? Pandering is. Being a lazy designer at the cost of catching a wider audience is.
A bounty hunter who runs over rugged terrain does not need stripper boots, she needs something with treads and function that can *gasp* still be sexy. I can picture a hybrid boot design that is feminine but rugged, functional but badass.
You know what conveys things like “boosters” and “power” and “high jump”? Springs, coils, energy cells, treads, jets… you don’t have to be literal but you also might want to show, not tell, what a prop does.

High-Jump Stripper Boots! by stephlaberis

Very important quote from this article regarding Samus’s high heels, but it applies to character and costume design in general.

~Ozzie

(via bikiniarmorbattledamage)

Worth bringing back that there’s nothing wrong with sexy in itself, but there’s a time and a place for everything.  When you’re trying to convey epic action and epic danger is not the time for epic sexy time clothes.

– wincenworks

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Things assholes say to defend shitty female armor

cuppykin:

-“She chooses to dress that way!”
-“It’s fantasy, get over it!”
-“I’m a girl and it doesn’t bother me!”
-“You see from her lore she doesn’t need protection because as an all powerful being of magic she…”
-“Conan the barbarian!”
-“If you don’t like it make your own content!”
-“I guess nobody can be creative any more!”

~~Feel free to add ur own~~

We have a game about that!

– wincenworks

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Things assholes say to defend shitty female armor

cuppykin:

-“She chooses to dress that way!”
-“It’s fantasy, get over it!”
-“I’m a girl and it doesn’t bother me!”
-“You see from her lore she doesn’t need protection because as an all powerful being of magic she…”
-“Conan the barbarian!”
-“If you don’t like it make your own content!”
-“I guess nobody can be creative any more!”

~~Feel free to add ur own~~

We have a game about that!

– wincenworks

More on Rhetoric Bingo | More on rhetoric