Weekly BABD Stream #27
Ozzie is under the weather this week, but she’ll be there to provide biting commentary while I’ll be finishing up designs that I didn’t have time to finish previously.
Join us on Saturday at 9 AM PST / 6 PM CET ~
-Icy
Weekly BABD Stream #27
Ozzie is under the weather this week, but she’ll be there to provide biting commentary while I’ll be finishing up designs that I didn’t have time to finish previously.
Join us on Saturday at 9 AM PST / 6 PM CET ~
-Icy
there is nothing inherently liberating in showing skin
there is nothing inherently liberating in covering up
the liberation lies in the choice
RELEVANT.
Today’s throwback: still relevant, in face of ever-present arguments about fictional ladies’ supposed right to choose what to wear.
Which is also exactly why we refuse to put real life women under the same scrutiny as fictional ones or to falsely equate a person’s deliberate choice of skimpy attire with a character design approved by a committee of creepers.
~Ozzie
So when a recurring character in Overwatch looks vastly different between her 3 appearances, we get told that different artists have different styles, and that Blizzard is allowed to change their character designs over time. But when Alexstrasza, queen of the dragons, gets a makeover and a pair of pants in Heroes of the Storm, there’s outrage on the forums.
This is her original WoW model:
You might notice that her clothes look a lot like Sylvanas’, even after they gave her pants. Even down to keeping the thong!
They did try to differentiate her with the leg armor and cape, but they couldn’t bring themselves to actually design her properly, despite the fact that they supposedly redesign their characters all the time. She has the exact same coverage as Sylvanas, even down to the upper arm bands. Doing a bingo on her would just be redundant!
I’ll give them props for giving her an interesting jawline, but that seems to be the extent of their creativity.
Also, is it just me, or does the jewelry she wears in her dragon form not resemble her humanoid jewelry at all? Even the rings on her horns seem to be different.
And if the answer is, that’s what she chooses to appear as when she’s not a dragon… well, we already have stuff written up about that.
-Icy
h/t: @ghostoftom
Now you can’t convince me that all those outfits with completely random cutouts AREN’T designed this way. Headcanon accepted.
Fun fact: I tried to reverse google search the whole picture this comes from and the Google’s closest keyword
suggestion was Polish for “sadness”:
I think this search engine finally achieved self-awareness.
And I, for one, welcome our new bullshit-detecting robot overlord.
~Ozzie
This definitely explains certain designs we’ve featured on the blog.
-Icy
h/t: @danyren, @emissaryofwind, @whiteraven13
