Month: November 2016

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Here’s a Question:

bikiniarmorbattledamage:

senator-awesomesause:

If female character costume designers for video games and superheroes like the female form (and boobs in particular) so much, why is that they’re always putting them in harm’s way?

That’s a very good question, actually. Somehow fictional boobs and butts are precious enough to show them off whenever possible, but not precious enough to preserve?

~Ozzie

When asking that question last year I forgot the obvious answer: supple boob and butt flesh is impervious to damage and decay. No matter how hurt and decomposed the rest of the fictional female body is, the curvy parts will always stay perfectly preserved.

StopSkeleboob2k16

~Ozzie

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hands-of-blue:

prokopetz:

It’s bad enough when a sci-fi setting has all the ladies wearing painted-on tights so snug that you can see all the way up their respective buttcracks, but then they go and do it with the armour, too.

Like, it’s armour.

It’s a solid chunk of heavy, rigid material.

How does that work?

How do you walk with a pair of inflexible domes tightly cupping your glutes?

Hell, how do you even stand when you’ve got a quarter-inch durasteel plate wedged so far up your ass you’re tasting metal?

Makes no sense.

@bikiniarmorbattledamage

While we’re certain skin-tight metal butt armor happens a lot in media (battle thong is by far more popular), the best, most literal examples of it from our blog were those chafiest short shorts ever:

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And this full body atrocity (whole thing is arguably NSFW, open link at own risk):

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We can also infer from some frontal images when a design probably includes a butt vacuum-sealed in metal, just like it has boobplate/metal boobsocks:

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That said, butts or no butts, armor so snug it looks like shiny bodypaint/metal spandex is a blight on costume design that should be stopped.

~Ozzie

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Tidy Up Tuesday #55

This week:

Don’t forget to participate in our Overwatch Halloween costume design contest! The deadline is this Sunday, 20 November! 

Fabulous prizes await!

Re: name dropping Dragon’s Crown as an example of a failed satire/commentary in the most recent throwback – the game’s art director admited his designs pushed for cartoonish exaggerations, implying it’s supposed to be a comedic take on the conventional fantasy character design.

Thing we addressed before:

~Ozzie & – wincenworks

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sisterofsilence:

nightshade-victorian:

cerinthefyrmagne:

Joan of Arc

Jeanne d’Arc

@sisterofsilence legit looking armour ideas for sisters of battle

Yes plz

There are so many ways to depict warrior women as majestic and powerful, even if you limit yourself to European stylings of particular eras.

More the shame that so many people seem determined to recycle the same ridiculous outfit ideas over and over. 

– wincenworks

Though I gotta point out, the first image seems to portray Joan in a scalemail boobplate, which makes me think the artist didn’t take a real armor as a reference. My hope is they would portray the scales as skin-tight on male pecs as well.

~Ozzie

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In case someone would think last week’s Zombicide Paolo Parente expansion bingos were unusually sexist for the game, here’s another bikini warrior from an expansion by a different guest artist, Neil Adams. 

To be completely fair, Zombicide expansions are a huge mixed bag when it comes to creativity. Mark Simonetti’s one, for example, features three great female character designs: 

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While Edouard Guiton’s has a non-sexualized lady next to a sexualized one:

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And those are only a few examples from the medieval fantasy-themed Black Plague option for Zombicide.

This game, no matter the version, is sure to provide us both with bingo material and positive examples for future posts. No sexy male heroes so far, though.

~Ozzie

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See it says “All New X-Men” but this is honestly the most 90s comic cover I’ve seen since… well the nineties.  The saddest part being that if we assume the cover girl is in fact, Goblin Queen… she is both far better dressed and yet somehow less impressive than her original incarnation:

Maybe in another thirty-three years we can get an incarnation that is both majestic and has a viable costume.

– wincenworks