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Post by Vendaval Este on Dec 24, 2008 10:27:43 GMT -5
Kefka looks like such a goof now....... Apart from that, I think the character portraits are kind of neat, especially the Amano ----> Nomura ones. I don't understand why they gave him such a wide mouth, now he just looks stupid.
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Post by justjustin on Dec 24, 2008 10:33:19 GMT -5
Since he dresses as a jester he must therefore be associated with the Joker from Batman. So now, people who are unfamiliar with Kefka will react, "Man, this retard's just a rip-off of the Joker." If they DIDN'T widen the mouth to make that association people would say "Man, this retard's just a rip-off of the Joker... they didn't even get the mouth right." BIG DIFFERENCE! but yes it's dumb.
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Post by Smithee on Dec 24, 2008 11:54:16 GMT -5
I dunno I like it. It works if you ask me.
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Post by Ryu the Grappler on Dec 24, 2008 14:41:08 GMT -5
I always thought of Kefka as Final Fantasy's version of The Joker when I first played FF VI on the SNES years ago. How many other homicidal clowns can you name in popular media?
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Post by Haz on Dec 24, 2008 15:09:51 GMT -5
Yeah, I was about to come in and say he looked a little bit like the Joker =/
Anyway, glad to see Nomura didn't fuck anything up.
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Post by TheGunheart on Dec 24, 2008 15:16:48 GMT -5
He's just being true to Amano's art: The only real difference is just how thick the lines are: his mouth was already pretty damn wide. Also, what I mean is that I like how Nomura's art has that slightly cartoony look and a really distinctive coloring style. But in the shift to 3D, they typically look more like people cosplaying as his designs.
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Post by Vendaval Este on Dec 24, 2008 15:17:55 GMT -5
I always considered that part of his facepaint.
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Post by TheGunheart on Dec 24, 2008 15:22:33 GMT -5
Funny enough, it's absent from FFVI's CGI trailer...
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Post by Justinzero on Dec 24, 2008 15:49:31 GMT -5
Yeah and his makeup is different too, so I think Vendaval Este, is right; its totally face paint.
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Post by TheGunheart on Dec 24, 2008 16:07:09 GMT -5
Funnily enough, it still is: I actually saw a trailer where he talks, and sure enough, his mouth really did open "normally".
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Post by robertagilmour on Dec 25, 2008 0:01:54 GMT -5
www.darkhorse.com/Books/10-858/Dawn-The-Worlds-of-Final-Fantasy-HC Who else is buying? I hope there is a second book to cover the rest of the games. A lot of the Amano books are a pain in the ass because of overlapping contents. I was slighty let down by the Magic Flute book he did. All nice art, but I thought it was all going to be as "finished" as the cover art.
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Post by kimimi on Dec 25, 2008 0:22:43 GMT -5
I used to own the Japanese version of that book! IIRC it had a really beautiful fold out piece that seemed to go on forever.
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Post by TheGunheart on Dec 25, 2008 1:14:59 GMT -5
That is the most awesome logo I've ever seen.
<3 Amano.
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Post by Vendaval Este on Dec 25, 2008 3:59:42 GMT -5
I love how that isn't overly done, so that it looks like an old book, it'd look great as a hardback.
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Post by Pitchfork on Dec 25, 2008 18:47:58 GMT -5
Sold! It'll look lovely next to the empty space on my shelf where the perpetually-delayed Darkstalkers art book is supposed to be.
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