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colin @vogon8/8/2023, 9:43 PM

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Ruby Soleil-Raine @soleilraine8/8/2023, 8:41 PM

everyone makes fun of guilty gear's belts but you gotta understand that the belts are the only things making these designs readable

Ruby Soleil-Raine @soleilraine8/8/2023, 9:06 PM

i am not fucking kidding in a fighting game context you have around 3-15 frames to read what an animation is doing and the belts serve an absurdly important purpose of dividing parts of a design.

Like, look at this animation on johnny from xrd. I use this one as an example because Johnny is wearing a jacket, pants, and hat that are all the exact same fucking color, but in execution, this shit is still really readable. Partially because the division created by his belt and bare chest makes it REALLY clear what is the top half of his body and what is the actual leg doing the sweep. You know where his head is even though it's covered because even if the hat is being lost in his shoulders, and you can always tell where the top of it is because of the white belt on it. Where's his right shoulder begin and end? Oh, there's a little belt on the middle of his arm, so I can then tell where his arm is placed even if it's lost against his lapels and shoulders. Then you've got the shoe that literally tells you where his foot ends, with the stupid shoe belt and black sole highlighting it against the brown background. all while looking so stupid that he ends up being sick as hell. all of this is clear enough that you can process it all in the literally 18 frames this is onscreen, and just. this shit is held up by belts, respect the stupid ass belts dammit

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Scampir @Scampir8/8/2023, 9:14 PM

It’s a shame they don’t match his shoes.

Ruby Soleil-Raine @soleilraine8/8/2023, 9:17 PM

The shoe being a different color is really important for readability but also jesus christ it is the ugliest brown they could have picked for his all-black outfit, dude looks like a bruise

Scampir @Scampir8/8/2023, 9:41 PM

I get that it has to match the gloves because that’s like, where people are being hit and it has to be readable, but then why not the belts too? 🤔

Ruby Soleil-Raine @soleilraine8/8/2023, 9:44 PM

I think that's because it might cause too much confusion with his iaido stance move, if his hand is the same color as his belt, it may disappear when he's got his hand on the sword. So the belt is just black with white stripes and a massive fucking buckle to have the same effect, while being different enough for Mist Finer to still read.

Scampir @Scampir8/8/2023, 9:48 PM

I have no idea what this character’s animations are so I will agree

Ruby Soleil-Raine @soleilraine8/8/2023, 9:53 PM

Basically the three most common things he does with his kit is kicking, punching, and swinging his sheathe, and since they're all the same color, it's easy to immediately tell what is and isn't the danger zone. If his belt was the same color, it could muddle the ability to tell what he's doing by drawing the same attention that should be on his gloves or boot to his waist, which he never uses for attacks.

(His sword swing attacks are a different color, but that's differentiated by being a bright silver so you can easily tell that it's a sword swing. also since his sheathe is the Danger Brown, it always presents a clearly visible start point for the motion, so you can always tell clearly what the arc of the swing is, helping you tell what attack he's even doing.)

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