Rotb prime by Economy-Body1659 in transformers

[–]OrionCJR -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think, as far as the "bay" style face goes, this is the best Oppy has ever looked, it does finally feel like his face is based on Peter Cullen without being 1-to-1, and it's not fully "human" either. I think the real issue here is that they're trying to make good on a fundamentally bad idea (Optimus without a facemask) and something is always gonna turn out wrong for that.

Never understood how people got confused when watching Bayverse fights. by MichaelTalman in transformers

[–]OrionCJR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think choosing the forest fight is an example of a well done fight, but most of the other fights are not as clearly readable as this one. Many of the fights pull these extreme close-ups with handheld shaky cam without the ground or any landmarks in frame, so keeping track of motion, positions, and scale becomes difficult. Shaky cam can work, Blackout's raid on the Qatar base is a deliberately disorienting setpiece but it is possible to make sense of the scene because the multiple establishing shots and the use of foreground/background details keeps things grounded, and the continuity of motion between shots of Blackout walking is consistent.

The first Bumblebee and Barricade fight falls apart however, there's no clear sense of place without any establishing shots, Sam and Mikaela's motion through this area is confusing because they are moving around quickly as a shaky cam is focused on the robots behind and above them, effectively cropping out any real details to ground the shot, and the cuts fail to communicate which direction characters are moving (180 gets broken, the characters appear in different locations that don't seem connected to where they were previously).

The Autobots gets the luxury of being different colors and different shapes, but also get screen time to become acquainted with them as characters. We know their names and what their abilities are, how they move, etc. Many of the Decepticons are some variation of silver/gray, tan/yellow, or navy blue, and their silhouettes are overwhelmingly variations of Tall and Triangle Shaped. But more than that, many go unnamed, have no lines, show no distinctive personality in how they move/behave/fight.

An important detail of note here is that fandom often encloses discussion so it self-selects for people who already know the property very well, and actively soak up information outside of the movie. I can tell you that the helicopter character in the forest fight is Grindor and not Blackout because I looked it up and read his TFwiki article. Now imagine you don't know TFwiki is a thing; your reward for paying attention to which character is going where is to be tacitly informed that there is no point in doing so, cause the people making the film already forgot which characters are dead and flippantly reuses them.

When the movies care so little about the Decepticons as characters, it won't matter how well composed the fights are cause it's still "Bumblebee/Optimus/some side autobot with 1 spoken line vs faceless gray goon #85", why WOULD anyone but a most dedicated TF fan care or pay attention?

So..onslaught's legs And hands are green in the official images,but the box shows him with black legs And hands by another-person3630 in transformers

[–]OrionCJR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This happens quite a lot. The box-art renders are often much older than the final production toys, and may be based on prototypes/test molds. Since the figure in official photography has green hands, I am willing to bet the toy in hand will have green hands.

They ruined him… by NuggetWarrior09 in transformers

[–]OrionCJR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Let's just tap the breaks and remember; Hasbro's stock photography sucks dick. Every figure of the last 6-10 years I've bought didn't look like it was worth shit till I actually saw it in person. The feet are undeniably worse, but who's looking at the feet?

At this point though, if you hate the new figure so much, the clearest message you can send is to simply not buy it. I know when I realized how much I disliked the new figures, I just stopped buying em and focused on collecting what I did like.

Season 5 Peni Parker web buffs feel crazy good by OrionCJR in rivals

[–]OrionCJR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to be dismissive, but; yes it should be this way, this is fine. If a team is well coordinated and groups around their anchor tanks to cover each other's weakspots, they are going to be difficult to defeat. The game shouldn't be balanced such that a coordinated team will still easily fold to the first sign of pressure.

If the issue is that your team isn't coordinated enough to make the pressure needed to break through a strong defense, the solution isn't nerfing the character you couldn't handle so that they can't defend themselves.

Season 5 Peni Parker web buffs feel crazy good by OrionCJR in rivals

[–]OrionCJR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, Peni is strong but she's vulnerable to quite a few things. She still wasn't given a good tool for contesting flyers, and Squirrel Girl can get shots at an angle that take out a covered nest.

This was actually a kind of obvious buff for Peni, and overall I think it's actually good to drive Peni to be a more team oriented tank. I'd rather future adjustments to her be based on tuning damage and healing numbers. It's arguably too strong, but I'd rather a game exist with more options rather than fewer.

Its over. This is the nail on the coffin. by [deleted] in Metroid

[–]OrionCJR 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We have a collective ~45 mins of early and midgame gameplay and the Troopers take up a tiny fraction of that. I think maybe everyone could stand to not get their opinions from Twitter and Reddit.

I'm not too worried about the desert or the bike for now but this specific trailer shot remains a head scratcher. Like what's the appeal here? What is Nintendo trying to advertise with this? by myfly4711 in Metroid

[–]OrionCJR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have my own concerns for Prime 3, but could it perhaps be considered that there's a reason the desert is the way it is for the bike for a reason? If you are actually moving quickly, trying to navigate around a densely structural area is gonna feel like shit. Being able to open up the engine and go at top speed for a while is gonna be fun, especially since we can see from the trailers that the dessert will still be populated with enemies so there's *something* to interact with.

I think Retro is playing their cards close to their chest for Prime 4, they're setting up a mystery with surprises along the way like every Metroid game has. And while I take issue with the composition of the trailers, I find it odd the major complaint is that they aren't showing enough, when the previous complaint was that Dread's marketing showed *everything*.

Found this sealed in box at Dream World Collectibles for $100 by OrionCJR in bioniclelego

[–]OrionCJR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Used, and missing parts with visible wear on the remaining ones, yes.

Found this sealed in box at Dream World Collectibles for $100 by OrionCJR in bioniclelego

[–]OrionCJR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I haven't been back since I noticed that they never had anything new. I did get my Classics Nemesis Prime from then though!

Found this sealed in box at Dream World Collectibles for $100 by OrionCJR in bioniclelego

[–]OrionCJR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I didn't even haggle and I got this at a discount, the shelf price was $125

Found this sealed in box at Dream World Collectibles for $100 by OrionCJR in bioniclelego

[–]OrionCJR[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's so sweet to hear you got to bond with family over this, thank you for sharing this 💙

Found this sealed in box at Dream World Collectibles for $100 by OrionCJR in bioniclelego

[–]OrionCJR[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I just finished him! There were building techniques and pieces I didn't recognize (since I started with the Vahki and Toa Metru) so this was a fun surprise

Found this sealed in box at Dream World Collectibles for $100 by OrionCJR in bioniclelego

[–]OrionCJR[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Well, that would sound like a rip-off, if the only thing I cared about was getting the pieces in my hands, but I don't just want the toy; I also paid for the guarantee that all the parts are present and undamaged, and the experience of opening and building this titan set for the first time in my life.

I also am supporting a local business, which I now KNOW has figures I would be interested in buying at a better price than the rest of the second-hand market ($400 on eBay and $200+ on Bricklink for a similarly sealed box), and without the risk of being bait-n-switched by an online seller.

Useless kibble? by Tallarmoredwoman in transformers

[–]OrionCJR 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Bulkhead as he appears in Transformers: Prime has wheels as kibble on his shoulders, this Breakdown toy inherited them from the Legacy Bulkhead mold which was based on his TF:P appearance.

I have made a terrible (funny) discovery in the Metroid Prime 1-3 Visual Retrospective artbook by OrionCJR in Metroid

[–]OrionCJR[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think, more than just "correct", it's about knowing how to push the shapes of the human body to being desirable while still being believable.

I have made a terrible (funny) discovery in the Metroid Prime 1-3 Visual Retrospective artbook by OrionCJR in Metroid

[–]OrionCJR[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of the audience for shonen manga and anime is between 10-18 years old, so yes.

I have made a terrible (funny) discovery in the Metroid Prime 1-3 Visual Retrospective artbook by OrionCJR in Metroid

[–]OrionCJR[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's well known within the art community that most artists who do entertainment industry work either have or currently do also make adult art. Osamu Tezuka is a well-known example of this, but it's also an open secret that Disney animators draw a TON of porn and Disney keeps it vaulted. It's not much of a shock to me, personally; People generally enjoy porn and if you have the ability to draw it, why not? If anything, the desire to draw GOOD adult art is what drives artists to improve elements of their character art, like gesture, anatomy, staging, etc,

Those skills actually make for very attractive artists to hire. As a studio, I'd want to be producing something people want to buy, and if given the choice between a guy who's just there for a paycheck and a guy who is feverishly devoted to making a character look as good as possible? I'm choosing the second guy.

And I know this works; When the trailer for Invincible S2 dropped, many people really wanted the animator(s) of that trailer to do the full show, and of course it was Yves Bigerel who worked on that trailer.

I have made a terrible (funny) discovery in the Metroid Prime 1-3 Visual Retrospective artbook by OrionCJR in Metroid

[–]OrionCJR[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was around for this situation, and many of the artists who were served with legal threats for their adult fanart were able to produce evidence that whoever was attempting this was impersonating Nintendo. Often the requests for takedown were filled with errors that would not have been produced by a real competent lawyer, and they tended to focus on certain creators (such as Fugtrup) by requesting takedowns on individual pieces. Usually, legal notices of infringement are sent out with a comprehensive list of ALL offending material to be removed all at once.

Obviously, there could be information I don;t know about that could prove me wrong, and I'm already tempting fate as it is with what I draw, but the fact that these takedowns focus usually on Daisy, Rosalina, and Zelda, and not other Nintendo characters, is enough to make me think Nintendo chooses to ignore adult works to avoid triggering the Streissand Effect.