Saturday, January 19, 2013

3p2

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So off the survey, the least favored character was Elaine. In contrast, Veronica was the highest scoring character. Some of the differences are black and white (hehe).
  • Elaine is the shortest of the cast. Reason- We need variation.
  • Her clothing is less revealing. Her character is simply not sexual, but there are a few sexualized parts on her clothing: The obvious  "breast window" provided by her shirt and the snap belt. I don't think this is much of a problem, because while characters that show cleavage/skin are more favored, there are always exceptions, like Larissa, who doesn't show so much an ankle and is scoring also very highly. We're very strange and opinionated about what we want women to wear.
  • Survey is more resistant to different characters. AD1's characters all look the same. 2, less so, but still. AD3, they look very different. This is a problem I was expecting, that the returning players would not like the new characters as much as the newer players. I'd like to think with Elaine, I'm just slightly broadening the appeal to different audiences.
  • Physique is less mature than the rest of the cast. You can look at the rest of the cast and you can kind of guess what their ages are. Veronica to the left carries herself very maturely, so I'd give her the age of 30. Elaine is supposed to be 18.
And despite all this, I put a little more work into Elaine's face, while keeping her true to her style and originality that keeps her separate from the cast.

4 comments:

  1. Elaine cloths say geek, and she has a tomboyish look about her. Also the short hair might be off putting to some of guys.
    She is fine just the way she is.

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  2. I'd rate her higher than I did, but her hips and legs looks off, which I recall was an issue when you were sketching her way back. Overall, she's great if that was changed up in her profile sketch.

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  3. Personally, Elaine is the cutest out all the girls in my opinion. After all, how could she not stand out with that spiffy emoticon hat?

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  4. I think people rated her low because of her posture. There's something slightly off about it.

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