Postby JimmyWolk » Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:33 pm
Eh, add me to the list of those who think that this looks rather bad. Granted, I might be a bit biased since I like the black & white/gray-scale style of Mangas, but that's not to say I'm against colored Mangas at all. That is, if they're colored to begin with.
If you're going to convert it, you better do a good job at hiding that it was something else before. Which doesn't seem to be the case here at all, this is just adding a color layer and use a cheap airbrush effect. The aforementioned color composition/intensity, someone up there said it's good that they're more subdued, but (outside perhaps the character's skin tones) they aren't. Quite the contrary, they are usually too intense (a mistake I make myself too often, as you often don't notice until later), which is all the more highlighted when there's little to no coloring around a colored object. Misato's alpine isn't a realistic blue, it's a bright, cartoony blue.
Why not try to emulate Sadamoto's watercolor style? There are tools/brushes for that kind of thing too. Or if that's too much work, how about more cell-shaded?
Either way, really, just drop that cheap airbrush/smudge look! For something official, that most of all makes it look incredibly amateurish, like they gave this to some intern with basic Photoshop knowledge.
But okay, it's apparently free, so it shouldn't be a big surprise that they wouldn't put too much work/money into it. But in that case, why bother at all?
Dream wrote:I don't know, for me it feels like it seriously lacked... something. It feels like the intensity and composition of the colors wasn't handled too well or something, and it gave it a somewhat plain feel to it.
