|
8 months ago ::
Sep 25, 2012 - 5:59AM
#11
|
|
|
I know art has evolved by leaps and bounds over the years, but this set really feels like the art is 'auto-tuned'. Can we have some actual art instead of digital help?
It is hard to feel like we've returned to Ravnica when the orignial cards were actually hand painted and not digital renderings. The digital stuff is cool and all, but so much of it feels very sterile. As of late I have been obsessed with buying things like All Hallow's Eve because you just don't make them like you used to, but maybe it's just me.
Wrong. This article was released during the original Ravnica block.
I feel like a lot of people who complain about Magic's art getting "too digital" need to read that piece.
Also, I can't think of any Magic cards that are digital renderings. A render is not just any digitally painted object.
Fine. Whatever you want to call it all this stuff looks like Audrina Patridge. It looks good, but it is dead behind the eyes.
|
|
|
|
8 months ago ::
Sep 25, 2012 - 6:26AM
#12
|
Date Joined:
Nov 14, 2005
|
An interesting article. It's nice to see the redesigns and refinements, and especially how the world of Ravinca moving on in-universe intersects with the desires of the creative team to change things they felt weren't working properly. However, this sentence: We wanted a more awesome, more geared-up, and more aged-down version of Izzet with more attitude and a junkier silhouette.
...really makes me think of the scene in The Simpsons in which they hold a meeting to design Poochie.
|
|
|
|
8 months ago ::
Sep 25, 2012 - 7:06AM
#13
|
|
|
Love it all.
I was a bit worried that you guys would go a bit overboard with the whole circus theme for Rakdos, but the spoiler laid my doubts to rest. They still look like cultists, but have a sense of style now.
Also, embroidery.
|
|
|
|
8 months ago ::
Sep 25, 2012 - 7:30AM
#14
|
Date Joined:
Jul 31, 2011
|
The basic land from the original Ravnica block was by far my favourite (standard) land. I just don't understand why you missed the oppertunity to give us something magnificent for RtR.
Full art panoramic land...
...and if it was by John Avon that would have been perfect.
|
|
|
|
8 months ago ::
Sep 25, 2012 - 8:03AM
#15
|
Date Joined:
Jul 31, 2011
|
Also, I can't think of any Magic cards that are digital renderings. A render is not just any digitally painted object.
Richards Wright's land for RtR look very much like 3D models to me, I really don't like them very much...a shame given how amazing his Ravnicac lands were.
Syncopate - It just looks like a still from a (well done) video game. I imagine it's been tinkered with, but it looks close to a straight up render.
|
|
|
|
8 months ago ::
Sep 25, 2012 - 9:10AM
#16
|
|
|
I've been fairly unimpressed by most of the art in this set. Richard Wright is probably my least favorite artist right about now, mostly because all of the big offender lands that bother me in RtR happen to be made by him. They look like 3D models to me as well. It looks sterile and bland, and doesn't mesh with other art well because it feels so out of place.
Do not want.
|
|
|
|
8 months ago ::
Sep 25, 2012 - 9:18AM
#17
|
|
|
This just needed to commit to the nouveau shapes that the original teased.
What does that mean?
|
|
|
|
8 months ago ::
Sep 25, 2012 - 9:31AM
#18
|
Date Joined:
Apr 16, 2011
|
So...where are these embroidered guild symbol patches that Matt Cavotta is referring to?
|
|
|
|
8 months ago ::
Sep 25, 2012 - 9:45AM
#19
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8 months ago ::
Sep 25, 2012 - 1:19PM
#20
|
|
|
"Guys, we need to move the Izzet away from old white males."
"Hmm... how about young white males?"
"BRILLIANT"
|
|
|
