9 Apr 2021, 13:54

@Georgios-Christopoulos said in Discussion! Do the design of these guys work? March Feedback request:

For example, @Braden-Hallett last design the kid with the wooden sword , was the most appealing in my mind. What do you think made the judges choose his kid demon

Honestly enough every single critique arena there are lots. LOTS of entries that don't make it that I thought would win.

Part of it is that they're trying to balance a bunch of different styles, takes, and rendering techniques to showcase as many different methods as possible.

Most of it, though, is because at the end of the day this whole thing is very VERY subjective. You can only look at illustrations objectively (this one doesn't have good composition, this one's values are muddy, this one has silhouettes that can't be read, this one is FULL of confusing tangents, etc) for so long until your choice comes down to "I like this one" or "not for me".

This is true if there's ONE judge. When you have two judges that have wildly different tastes (you'll notice there was at least one entry that Will said "yes" to and Jake said "no" to) then things tend even MORE toward their personal preference at the moment which is perhaps influenced by the colour of the room they're in, the ambient temperature of their studio in the hot sun, or THOSE DAMN KIDS ON MY LAWN AGAIN.

And this is fine!

Long story short, beyond some very VERY basic judge preferences (Jake likes robots and action, Will likes stout and cute, and Lee, much like the cats he seems to like, is utterly mercurial and is impossible to predict and so you should just try and throw him a curveball) there is no point in trying to predict how much the judges will prefer one design over another.

Storytelling on the other hand is a different matter!

However, when it comes to the audience voting, THEN the design of the character will sometimes comes into play.

Alright... I'm gonna write another post about this.